Review: Sublime Light: Tapestry Art of DY Begay

Sublime Light: The Tapestry Art of DY Begay (cover)

Editors: Cécile R. Ganteaume and Jennifer McLerran

Publisher: The National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institute Date published:: 2024
272 pages, including 175 full colour and black-and-white illustrations, essays, bibliography and index, and exhibition checklist of 80 tapestries by DY Begay
Hardback
ISBN: 978-1-58834-756-5
Review by Sally Reckert, 2024

“Begay’s distinctive tapestry designs are rooted in the colours of the light and high-desert topography of Tsélání” (Cécile R. Ganteaume).

The exhibition Sublime Light: The Tapestry Art of DY Begay opened in September 2024, in Washington D.C. at The National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institute. It closes July 13, 2025. To accompany the exhibition the book under review was published.

Focusing on Begay’s tapestries since 2000, this handsomely produced and beautifully illustrated book with its thoughtful essays places DY Begay and her tapestry art within both her Diné culture and homeland, Tsélání, in the Diné (Navajo) reservation, and the art world of the West.

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