Soft medium, hard truths - National Endowment for the Arts recognizes a Navajo quilter A Navajo woman who has spent 50 years sewing has now been honored with an NEA award for her unique quilts. ADAM BURKE, BYLINE: Before they became tools of artistic liberation, needle and thread were sources of pain and suffering for Susan Hudson and her family, …
Soft medium, hard truths - National Endowment for the Arts recognizes a Navajo quilter toggle caption National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. "We all know what happened to these kids who went to the boarding schools," Hudson said. "Every one of us Natives, we're descendants from boarding school survivors," said Hudson. The Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, has …
