artist: Helene Valdez
| Women Indians acrylic and pencil 22" x 15" |
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| Blue Kachina acrylic on matte board 20" x 14" |
Helene Valdez — Helene's work has been featured in numerous art openings, exhibits and special events through VSA and ARCA. She particularly loves painting portraits of Native Americans, through which she explores her ancestral connections to the Apache Tribe. She takes every opportunity to visit nearby pueblo reservations to observe feast days, celebrations of the social dances and to go to pow-wows to watch the dancers. This gives Helene inspiration for her portraits. She also loves to write poetry and has had her work featured in the Enabled Writer, readings at South Broadway Cultural Center, and on the Dial-A-Poem poetry hotline.
