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| . "Fourth Generation Navajo Weaver to Highlight 2018 Gala". Museum Notes (Museum of Northern Arizona), fall 2017. 2017. | 9 | 2017 | Announcement on the forthcoming exhibition "Tselani/Terrain: Tapestries of D.Y. Begay" which will premier at the 12th Annual Museum of Northern Arizona Gala and Fine Art Auction on June 16, 2018. | |
| . "Guide to Market, Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market". Native American Art, issue 19 (February/March 2019). 2019. | 133 | 2019 | Sections includes the following: Jewelry & Lapidary; Pottery; Paintings, Drawings, Photography & Graphics; Pueblo Carvings; Scupture; Weavings & Textiles; Diverse Arts including Beadwork & Quillwork; Baskets; Personal Attire; and Youth. | |
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| Begay, D. Y. "Crossroads and Navajo Weaving: a Weaver's Narrative". In: Webster, Laurie D., Louise I. Stiver, D.Y. Begay, and Lynda Teller Pete. Navajo Textiles: the Crane Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Denver, Colorado: Denver Museum of Nature and Science. 2017. | 78-86 | 2017 | Host volume includes bibliographical references and index. Co-published by the University Press of Colorado, Boulder. | |
| Begay, D. Y. "Shi' Sha' Hane' (My Story)". In: Bonar, Eulalie H. (editor). Woven by the Grandmothers: Nineteenth-Century Navajo Textiles from the National Museum of the American Indian. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1996. | 13-27 | 1996 | | |
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| Begay, D. Y. and Jennifer McLerran (curator). Tselani/Terrain: the Tapestries of D. Y. Begay. Flagstaff, Arizona: Museum of Northern Arizona. 2018. | | 2018 | Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona, June 17, 2018-November 1, 2018, with commentary by Jennifer McLerran, Betty Reid, and Jill Ahlberg Yohe. Includes bibliographical references. | |
| Bonar, Eulalie H. (editor). Woven by the Grandmothers: Nineteenth-Century Navajo Textiles from the National Museum of the American Indian. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1996. | 3, 8-9, 13-18, 19-27 | 1996 | Catalog of an exhibition published in association with the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. Most text in English and Navajo; Navajo title: Nihimásáni Deiztłʼǫ́: Náhást̕eíts̕áadahdi, Neeznádiin Nináháhááhą́ądą́ą́̕ Adaalyaaigii, Bitsi̕ Yishtłizhii Be̕i̕ool̕įįł Danĭl̕į Bá Hooghandóó. Includes bibliographical references and index. | |
| Diaz, Rosemary. "Sibling Revelry! Art of the Family Tree". Indian Market (Santa Fe New Mexican), 2017. 2017. | 96 | 2017 | Includes color portrait photograph of D.Y. Begay. | |
| Fauntleroy, Gussie. "Back to the Plaza". Native Peoples, vol. 14, no. 5 (July/August 2001). Native Peoples. 2001. | 45 | 2001 | | |
| Fauntleroy, Gussie. "Indian Market Buyer's Guide 2002". Southwest Art, vol. 32, no. 3 (August 2002). 2002. | 211 | 2002 | | |
| Fenimore Art Museum Eva Fognell (editor) and Alexander Brier Marr (editor). Art of the North American Indians: the Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum. 2016. | 255 | 2016 | D.Y. Begay provides analysis of a Second Phase, Navajo blanket. | |
| Heard Museum. Arriving Forever into the Present World: Gallery Guide. Phoenix, Arizona: Heard Museum. 2023. | guide is not paginated | 2023 | Includes color illustration of 2013 textile entitled "Palette of Cochineal" by DY Begay. | Gallery guide of the exhibition "Arriving Forever into the Present World" which was held at and organized by the Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; exhibition was held in the Lovena Ohl Gallery, June 2, 2023-March 3, 2024. Guide includes essay entitled "Indigenous Time Traditions and the Artistic Imagination" by David Martínez. | |
| Heard Museum. Heard Museum Grounds Self-Guided Sculpture Tour. Phoenix, Arizona: Heard Museum. 2016. | | 2016 | Includes titles of sculptures and names of sculptors, with map. | |
| Heppenheimer, Jill. "Giving Voice to Creativity". Fiberarts, vol. 34, no. 1 (summer 2007). 2007. | 34-37 | 2007 | | |
| Jacka, Lois. "From Lamb to Loom". Arizona Highways, vol. 70, April 1994. 1994. | 20-25 | 1994 | | |
| Marshall, Ann E., Carol Ann Mackay, Velma Kee Craig, Natalia Miles, and Ninabah Winton (curators) and Craig Smith (photographer). Color Riot!: How Color Changed Navajo Textiles. Phoenix, Arizona: Heard Museum. 2020. | 100-101 | 2020 | Catalog of an exhibition organized and held at the Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, April 5, 2019-September 29, 2019; and traveling to the following venues: Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, September 4, 2020-November 22, 2020; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, April 10, 2021-August 8, 2021; and Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, September 11, 2021-January 2, 2022. | |
| McGreevy, Susan Brown and D.Y. Begay (curators), with Jonathan Batkin and Lynette Miller (editors). ~The Image Weavers: Contemporary Navajo Pictorial Textiles: an Exhibition at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, New Mexico, May 15-October 26, 1994. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian. 1994. | 12-14 | 1994 | Includes essay "Personal Observations" by D.Y. Begay. | Exhibition catalog. | |
| McLerran, Jennifer (editor). Weaving Is Life: Navajo Weavings from the Edwin L. & Ruth E. Kennedy Southwest Native American Collection. Athens, Ohio: Kennedy Museum of Art. 2006. | 48 | 2006 | Includes the essay "Weaving Is Life: a Navajo Weaver's Perspective" by D.Y. Begay. | Co-published by University of Washington Press, Seattle, Washington. | |
| McLerran, Jennifer and D. Y. Begay. "Review: Patterns of Exchange: Navajo Weavers and Traders". Heritage Management, vol. 2, no. 2 (fall 2009). 2009. | 256 | 2009 | | |
| McNeal, Lyle G., Dr. "A Struggling Survivor". Native Peoples, vol. 4, no. 2 (winter 1991). 1991. | 38, 41-42 | 1991 | | |
| Meredith, America. "[Exhibition review of] 'Collecting Stories: Native American Art', Museum of Fine Arts, Boston". First American Art Magazine, issue no. 20 (fall 2018). 2018. | 82-83 | 2018 | Participants includes indigenous artists Maria Hupfield (Wasauksing Ojibwe) and D.Y. Begay (Navajo). | |
| Russell, Karen Kramer with Janet Catherine Berlo and others. Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. 2012. | 21, 122-123, 134-135 | 2012 | Catalog of an exhibition; includes index. Index online at source URL: http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/682969591.pdf | |
| Schaaf, Gregory, and Angie Yan Schaaf. American Indian Textiles: 2,000 Artist Biographies, C. 1800-present: with Value/Price Guide Featuring over 20 Years of Auction Records. Santa Fe, New Mexico: CIAC Press. 2001. | 46 | 2001 | Volume 3 in the American Indian Art Series. | |
| Shapiro, Beth. "Making a Grand Entrance". Jewish News of Greater Phoenix, June 20, 2008. 2008. | 33 | 2008 | Newspaper article | |
| Webster, Laurie D., Louise I. Stiver, D.Y. Begay, and Lynda Teller Pete. Navajo Textiles: the Crane Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Denver, Colorado: Denver Museum of Nature and Science. 2017. | | 2017 | Introduction by Ann Lane Hedlund with bibliographical references and index. Co-published by the University Press of Colorado, Boulder. "An account of the historical context of Navajo weavings in the Crane Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science--one of the largest collections in the world. Anthropologists and indigenous artists explore the Navajo rug trade in mid-nineteenth century and changes in Navajo textile market". | |
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