About The Artist
Nora Yazzie is a proud, full-blooded Native American woman born in 1954 within the Navajo Nation. She hails from the Dine people of the Four Corners region on the Navajo Reservation and was raised in Farmington, New Mexico. Nora attended the Navajo Methodist Mission High School, where she was first introduced to the arts through clay, drama, and creative writing. Encouraged by her teachers to explore these different mediums, she entered her first local high school art show and won first place in the clay division. This marked the beginning of her journey into the world of art.
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