CONGRATULATIONS! Jeweler Colin Coonsis was awarded the Malcom & Connie Goodman Fellowship Award for 2010, and carver Ray Tsalate was awarded the Wolfus Family Fellowship Award for 2010! Both awards are given to foster growth in artists who show promise and potential in the early stages of their careers.



CINDY'S ICE Dragonfly
Nature's own manipulation produced this incredible dragonfly within a backyard bird bath, amazing!





ZUNI ME WINTER (like no other) by Peter Hensel
The dragonflies are out there---soaring, darting
hovering---even in the dead of winter: snowy
blustery New Mexico cold
Look! The dragonflies have sprung up
from the freezing ponds of Zuniland
Can you see?
Skittering along the blue knife edge of the cold,
they hang in the high desert air above
the Reservation
Ice crystal dragonflies, sacred winter’s mystery
keepers
They are everywhere---the dappled, changing sky
is full of them
Zigging zagging fleeting fleecing trysting transporting
They take the messages from the A’shiwi
to the gods and back
Look! Renegade restless, breaking through boundaries
from Zuni they are flying out and flying far
Where they stop, where they land
no one can predict
A redwood deck rail in California. An SUV windshield
in upstate New York. A heart lost and trampled
somewhere in the heartland
The Zunis see them
How is it we do not?
They are impossible to miss: ice crystal dragonflies
The dragonfly diviners with shimmering
truth transparent wings