{"product_id":"roxanne-swentzell-extraordinary-people-new-mexico-magazine-artist-series-9780937206775","title":"Roxanne Swentzell: Extra-ordinary People (New Mexico Magazine Artist Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe fourth title in New Mexico Magazines Artist Series showcases the work of Roxanne Swentzell  one of the most intriguing and acclaimed contemporary sculptors in the Southwest. Roxanne was born in 1962  the daughter of Rina Swentzell  a potter  architect  writer  and scholar from Santa Clara Pueblo  and Ralph Swentzell  a New Jersey-born philosophy professor at St. Johns College in Santa Fe. For her last two years of high school Roxanne attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe  where she was given the first exhibition of her clay figures. Later she studied at the Portland Museum Art School in Oregon. Today Roxannes work  much of which is also produced in bronze limited editions  is collected internationally. It has earned numerous honors  including many first place and best of class awards at Santa Fe Indian Market and the Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair and Market. Her work is extensively exhibited in museums and galleries  and in 1997  Emergence of the Clowns was part of an exhibition of Native American sculpture at the White House. In this generously illustrated art book  Santa Fe writer Gussie Fauntleroy explores with Roxanne the ideals and beliefs that underpin her work. Her sculptures of human figures capture beauty that is unspoiled by glamour and enhanced by dignity  self-awareness  and humor. Along with her Pueblo community  she cherishes memory--the continuum of the ancestral past with present and future--which nourishes the wisdom to look beyond contemporary pop-culture idolatry and choose a more fundamental humanity. Her figures exalt the small  ordinary  everyday choices we make that define our integrity and enable us to become extra-ordinary. Roxannes many admirers love her art for its simplicity  humanity  humor and superior craftsmanship. This book enables readers to enjoy Roxannes artwork in the company of her quiet and observant spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648216129589,"sku":"ByrdShop_0937206776","price":169.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780937206775.jpg?v=1781713041","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/roxanne-swentzell-extraordinary-people-new-mexico-magazine-artist-series-9780937206775","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}