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September 2006
 Nora
Naranjo-Morse (Tewa, Santa Clara Pueblo) is an acclaimed
artist and filmmaker. She was recently named winner of the NMAI's
outdoor sculpture design competition, with a piece that will be
installed at the museum in 2007. An environmental landscape, Numbe
Whageh (Our Center Place) was commissioned by The Albuquerque
Museum, to provide a Native response to 500-year observance of
Don Juan de Oñate's arrival in New Mexico. Naranjo-Morse
participated in the Te Mata Gathering, an arts festival held in
2005 at the Toimairangi School of Maori Visual Culture in New
Zealand and in 2003 she received an Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native
American Fine Art from the Eiteljorg Museum. Naranjo-Morse's most
recent video works have looked at the creation of art and people's
relationship to it. She lives in Española, New Mexico.
"I was first attracted to the medium of film because of
its color, possibility of story, and accessibility. Clay and bronze
are in limited editions, they aren't as accessible as film, and
in some ways they aren't as plastic. I can tell more stories and
make more statements with film. I look at how films flow in a
different way, how the music works with the story and how the
story is set up so that the film is consistent."
Screened by NMAI
Image credit: Nora
Naranjo-Morse - courtesy of Zachary Naranjo-Morse; Nora Naranjo-Morse
- photograph by Tim Warner
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