Show update: Opening day of Honoring the Weavers in Canvas and Bronze at the historic Toadlena Trading Post
The Wopila Artist Guild would like to thank everyone who attended the June 18, 2011 festivities at the historic Toadlena Trading Post. Wopila co-founders painter James Ayers and sculptor Craig Bergsgaard enjoyed meeting the hundreds of people who came out to enjoy the day’s events. Toadlena Museum Show In 2010, Ayers and Bergsgaard founded Wopila [...]
NOW! See the Complete Wopila Collection to benefit the historic Toadlena Trading Post
We now have the Wopila art collection for our 2011 benefit up for you to view! We have now posted our gallery of painting and sculpture for our first benefit showHonoring the Weavers with Canvas and Bronze. Work is on sale now — the pieces will be exhibited at the Toadlena Trading Post June 18 [...]
A visit to historic Toadlena Trading Post:
The weavers give feedback on paintings and sculpture
Getting valuable input on artwork from Navajo weavers At the end of September, sculptor Craig Bergsgaard and painter James Ayers visited historic Toadlena Trading Post to show preliminary versions of the pieces that will be shown in Honoring Weavers with Canvas and Bronze, their new benefit exhibit that will open June 18, 2011. Bergsgaard and Ayers [...]
Announcing a one-of-a kind art show:
Honoring Weavers with Canvas and Bronze
The story of two Colorado artists, one Navajo trading post, 45 weaving families, and 350 years of history On June 18, 2011, Toadlena Trading Post will host the opening of Wopila Artist Guild’s first benefit show, Honoring Weavers with Canvas and Bronze. This show celebrates the Navajo weavers of Toadlena through a special painting and [...]
Wopila Artist Guild: Artists supporting art education for Native American youth
“We want to do our part to make sure the traditions that have inspired our work are kept alive for future generations.”~ Painter and Wopila co-founder, James Ayers Two artists want to give back Wopila Artist Guild was organized in 2010 with a simple, yet powerful mission: help sustain traditional art forms by providing support [...]