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Join us at Coronado Historic Site for our monthly artist demonstrations highlighting six artists from different New Mexico Pueblos and Arizona Hopi Villages. Each artist will interact with visitors while they practice their style of traditional and contemporary arts.

This month, artist Mallery Quetawki (Zuni Pueblo) will demonstrate mixed media painting. Mallery is from Zuni Pueblo and of the Badger Clan and child of the Turkey Clan. She received her B.S. in Biology with a minor in Art studio in the summer of 2009 from UNM-ABQ. She is currently a Communications and Outreach Specialist with the Community Environmental Health Program at the University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy. Mallery has used art to translate scientific ideas, health impacts and research on uranium mines that are currently undergoing study in several Indigenous communities. Her work has been featured on National Institutes of Health websites and published in peer-reviewed journals on environmental health and academic medicine. Mallery has a large-scale mural titled, “Morning Prayer”, on permanent display at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center which depicts the history of the Zuni People. Other noted works include an interactive Google Doodle that kicked off Native American Heritage Month on November 1, 2021. From 2023-2024, Mallery’s painting entitled, “Our Cultures, Our Languages” was projected on the entrance to the Grounded in Clay exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

New Mexico is home to 19 federally recognized Pueblos and Arizona is home to 12 Hopi villages and these demonstrations provide an opportunity to learn about traditional and contemporary Native art.

This month’s demonstration is held in conjunction with Coronado’s Route 66 Centennial Celebration and is free to New Mexico residents, children 16 and younger, Tribal members, disabled veterans, foster families, and MNMF and FCJHS members. Non-residents are $7 for adults.