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Name

Leander Begay

Heritage

Navajo

Gender

male

Dates

Lifespan

Specialty / Medium

graphic art

drawing

pen and ink drawing

skateboard

oil painting

acrylic painting

External Remarks

Artist's file in Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum.

Artist represented in the Native American Artists Collection (RC62) of the Heard Museum Archives.

Artist’s physical folder is filed alphabetically in the Native American Artists Resource Collection under the following name:

Begay, Leander

Exhibits

1990 Native American Student Arts and Crafts Show. Heard Museum. Phoenix, Arizona. (1990)

Heard Markets

2020 Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market. Heard Museum. Phoenix, Arizona. March 7-8, 2020.

Awards

2020 Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market: Honorable Mention for Classification I - Jewelry and Lapidary. Awarded for artwork: "The Force Be With You". Heard Museum. Phoenix, Arizona. March 6, 2020.
1990 Native American Student Arts and Crafts Show, Classification III, Division H - Drawings: Honorable Mention. Heard Museum. Phoenix, Arizona. 1990.
Winner of Farmington [New Mexico] Public Library borrower's card design contest, Fall, 1990.

Publications

Found 4 record(s)

Citation	Pages	Publication Date	Artist Citation Notes
Tracey, Deborah. "Card reflects Southwest spirit." FARMINGTON NEWS, Farmington, NM, 1991.
"Art Show Scheduled." NEWS TWENTY-TWO, Central Consolidated School District, no.22 vol.14,no 5(March 8, 1991) [unpaged].
Incorvaia, Samantha. "The Daily Grind: One-Man Skateboard Business Brings Navajo Culture Back to the Youth". Arizona Republic, Sunday, September 8, 2019. 2019.	1P, 4P-5P	2019	Newspaper article in an exclusive special section of the Arizona Republic for September 8, 2019, entitled, "Evolving Traditions: Native Americans Create New Niches in Food, Art".
Silversmith, Shondiin. "'Dead Pawn' Resurrects Culture in Youth". Navajo Times, vol. 54, no. 32 (August 13, 2015). 2015.	C-1, C-10	2015	Newspaper article.

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