National Photographer Celebrates American Indian Heritage Month with an Open Studio &
Gallery Exhibit in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Gallery Exhibit in Santa Fe, New Mexico
In honor of National American
Indian Heritage Month and the contributions of North America’s First People, professional
photographer Marilyn Angel Wynn will host an open studio and gallery exhibit on
Friday November 23 and Saturday November 24 between 10am to 4pm at NativeStock
Studios, 1036 Canyon Road.
The open studio exhibit will
highlight Wynn’s 20-year photographic specialty of Native American traditional
cultures and contemporary lifestyles. Wynn’s passion and dedication follows the
footsteps and drive experienced by legendary photographer Edward Curtis. “100
years ago Curtis was doing exactly what I’m doing today”, says Wynn, “he’s been
my most significant mentor. I’ve picked up where he left off.” Originally
shooting colorful images, Wynn creates antique inspired amber gold prints and
applies beeswax to give the photographs historic charm.
Even though the gallery
examples are dreamlike photographs of Native people dressed in ancestral
regalia, most of Wynn’s image collection features contemporary achievements and
modern day lifestyles of tribal members and their communities across Indian
Country today. Many images have been used on projects by the who’s who in
publishing. The client list includes Time-Life, Simon & Schuster, National
Geographic, Sunset Magazine, Indian Health Services, History Channel and the
Kellogg Foundation.
Equipped with cameras and a sense
of humor, Wynn visits tribal communities with great compassion and
understanding. This helps her to meet and photograph Native people of all ages
who open their homes and share handed-down customs.
“I’m just honored to be able
to travel to hundreds of Indian Nations and meet incredible people that have
all helped to create this huge body of work”. Wynn adds, “The whole collection
will eventually end up in Washington DC at the Smithsonian Museum of the
American Indian.”
Originally from Canada, Wynn
spent several years honing her craft at a home base in the Rocky Mountains of
Idaho. Last May, Wynn packed up her studio with the goal to make Santa Fe her
new home. “For over a year my dream has been to have a studio on Canyon Road”,
Wynn remarks, “proof enough that dreams can come true”. Features that encouraged
Wynn to call New Mexico home are the cultural diversities, talented artists and
centuries of history.
Photography by Marilyn Angel Wynn, Website
