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Begay lives in Santa Fe now but maintains an Arizona<br />
connection to the Navajo reservation.<br />
David Roche has been director at the Heard Museum<br />
for just over a year. He says that planning for the<br />
“Beauty” exhibit began around the time that he<br />
started. But first, the museum would undergo a<br />
massive remodeling project.<br />
The Heard Museum received a grant from the<br />
Virginia C. Piper Charitable Trust and laid plans to<br />
combine two previous gallery spaces into an open<br />
floor plan with more than 6,500 square feet, as well<br />
as to install a walkway that would finally connect<br />
the upstairs Berlin Mezzanine to the galleries on the<br />
south end of the second floor. The new combined<br />
space is aptly dubbed the Grand Gallery. Major<br />
construction started in May 2016. “It’s a blur. Really,<br />
it’s remarkable how quickly this has come together,”<br />
Roche says.<br />
Roche explains that there were many challenges<br />
along the way during the renovation. “As you might<br />
imagine, when you are dealing with this much<br />
history, there will be some surprises. There were<br />
actually 33 latent issues or conditions that had to be<br />
addressed.”<br />
“Beauty Speaks for Us” will be the inaugural<br />
exhibition in the Virginia C. Piper Charitable Trust<br />
Grand Gallery. The remodeling project took about<br />
a year from planning to completion, and the final<br />
touches wrapped up just in time for the installation<br />
and opening of the “Beauty” exhibit.<br />
“We feel that we’re in a much better place, for a lot<br />
of reasons,” Roche says. “But really what we are<br />
most excited about is the opportunity that this new<br />
gallery presents for us.”<br />
“Beauty Speaks for Us”<br />
Virginia C. Piper Charitable Trust Grand Gallery<br />
Heard Museum<br />
February 11 through April 2<br />
www.heard.org<br />
A limited-edition catalog of the exhibition is available.<br />
Nancy Youngblood, Santa Clara Pueblo, b. 1955, Melon bowl, 2001,<br />
Ceramic, 6 x 8 inches, Collection of Janis and Dennis Lyon<br />
Nancy Youngblood, Santa Clara Pueblo, b. 1955, Melon bowl with 32<br />
ribs, 2001, Ceramic, 8 x 11 inches, Collection of Nadine Basha<br />
Nancy Youngblood, Santa Clara Pueblo, b. 1955, Melon bowl, 1998,<br />
Ceramic, 6.5 x 8.5 inches, Collection of Janis and Dennis Lyon<br />
Kiowa Dress, c. 1880, Hide, paint, glass beads, cowrie shells. horsehair,<br />
metal, brass beads, silk ribbon, 54 x 31 inches, Fred Harvey Fine<br />
Arts Collection at the Heard Museum<br />
Hopi Ahöla, early 1900s, Cottonwood root, paint, kaolin, feathers,<br />
cloth, 24 x 26 x 7 inches, Gift of Senator Barry M. Goldwater, Underwritten<br />
by Anonymous<br />
Kiowa Lattice cradle, c. 1890, Hide, canvas, cotton cloth, glass and<br />
metal beads, wood, silver tacks, brass bell, 42.5 x 26.8 x 9.5 inches,<br />
Fred Harvey Fine Arts Collection at the Heard Museum<br />
Photography by Craig Smith, Heard Museum<br />
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