Hubbell announces Artist-In-Residence, auction schedule

Independent Staff

GANADO — Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site has announced its 2007 Artist-In-Residence program and its auction schedule.

Artist-In-Residence
The Artist-In-Residence program provides accomplished writers, composers, and visual and performing artists the opportunity to pursue their particular art form surrounded by the inspiring northern Arizona landscape and historic architecture of the Hubbell family homestead. Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site will provide a historic, fully-furnished stone hogan for residence during each participant's one or two-week stay.

All participants will be required to attend a short orientation session to help them discover the many resources at Hubbell Trading Post and how to effectively visit with the general public. Participants will also be registered to work under the National Park Services' "Volunteer in Park" program during their residency. No stipend is provided.

In return, participating artists are asked to donate to the park an original piece of work from and representative of, their residency, and be available to the public during part of each day to answer questions and share their enthusiasm for art.

Entries are accepted for the 2007 program throughout the year. Artists accepted for the program will be notified within three weeks of receipt of their application packet.

Auction Schedule
The Friends of Hubbell Trading Post NHS have scheduled arts and crafts auctions for Saturday, May 5 and Saturday, Aug. 25. Both auctions will include contemporary and antique Navajo weavings, Pueblo Katsina dolls, pottery, paintings, carvings and baskets from several tribes. Preview for the auctions will be from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., with each auction beginning at noon (DST). Many of the artists will be in attendance during the morning preview.

Artists may register their items for each auction the week immediately preceding each auction. Food and arts and crafts vendors may reserve their booth space two months prior to each auction. Booth rentals are $20. Only authentically handmade Native American art objects will be accepted in the auction and vendor tables.

Highlights from the 2006 auctions include a new sales record, the most items ever offered in one auction, and the highest percentage of items sold. At these two auctions, over 75 percent of the submitted auction items sold, artists were paid 90 percent of the final bid price of each sold item, and while the lowest sold item bid was $10, the highest item sold for $9,900, a Hubbell auction record. Nearly 150 people bid on artwork during the auctions, and booth rentals sold out early at both auctions.

For further information, call (928) 755-3475 or visit www.nps.gov/hutr.