{"id":2353,"date":"2014-01-23T15:21:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T20:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2014-01-23T15:22:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T20:22:15","slug":"baje-whitethorne-sr-navajo-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/baje-whitethorne-sr-navajo-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Baje Whitethorne Sr. &#8211; Navajo Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Navajo Oral History of\u00a0Baje Whitethorne Sr.<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VBmZ3W_0t8I\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This documentary film was researched, photographed, edited and produced by students of Winona State University (Winona, Minnesota) and Din\u00e9 College (Tsaile, Arizona, Navajo Nation) during summer 2013.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It contains stories Baje Whitethorne Sr., told to the students during several hours of interviews about his life.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This documentary film is archived at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.navajonationmuseum.org\/\">Navajo Nation Museum<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nnlib.org\/\">Navajo Nation Library<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.winona.edu\/library\/\">Winona State University Library<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/library.dinecollege.edu\/\">Din\u00e9 College Library<\/a>, and will be archived at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nmai.si.edu\/home\/\">Smithsonian Institution\u2019s National Museum of the American Indian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The film is part of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/masscommunimania.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Navajo%20Oral%20History\">Navajo Oral History project<\/a>, a multi-year collaboration between the Winona State University\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/masscommunimania.blogspot.com\/\">Mass Communication Department<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dinecollege.edu\/\">Din\u00e9 College<\/a>\u2013 The official Tribal College of the Navajo Nation<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/baje-whitethorne-sr-navajo-artist\/baje-whitethorne-sr-01\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2354\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2354\" alt=\"Baje Whitethorne Sr \" src=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Baje-Whitethorne-Sr-01-576x720.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Baje-Whitethorne-Sr-01-576x720.jpg 576w, http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Baje-Whitethorne-Sr-01-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Baje-Whitethorne-Sr-01.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Photo by Brett Gustafson of the Navajo Oral History project.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Baje grew up on the Navajo Nation and continues to include Navajo themes in his paintings and sculptures that have been exhibited in museums across the United States and around the world.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/baje-whitethorne-sr-navajo-artist\/baje-whitethorne-sr-04\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2355\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2355\" alt=\"Baje Whitethorne Sr\" src=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Baje-Whitethorne-Sr-04-720x661.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Baje-Whitethorne-Sr-04-720x661.jpg 720w, http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Baje-Whitethorne-Sr-04-300x275.jpg 300w, http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Baje-Whitethorne-Sr-04.jpg 943w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Photo by Brett Gustafson of the Navajo Oral History project<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">His interests are \u00a0storytelling and art. He says his artwork reflects his homeland and rich culture.\u00a0He does landscapes and other paintings showing harmony of the Navajo way of life. Currently Baje resides in Flagstaff, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/baje-whitethorne-sr-navajo-artist\/baje-whitethorne-sr-03\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2356\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2356\" alt=\"Baje Whitethorne Sr\" src=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Baje-Whitethorne-Sr-03-720x651.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Baje-Whitethorne-Sr-03-720x651.jpg 720w, http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Baje-Whitethorne-Sr-03-300x271.jpg 300w, http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Baje-Whitethorne-Sr-03.jpg 889w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Photo by Brett Gustafson of the Navajo Oral History project<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navajo Oral History of\u00a0Baje Whitethorne Sr. This documentary film was researched, photographed, edited and produced by students of Winona State University (Winona, Minnesota) and Din\u00e9 College (Tsaile, Arizona, Navajo Nation) during summer 2013. It contains stories Baje Whitethorne Sr., told to the students during several hours of interviews about his life. This documentary film is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[836,421,837,221],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navajo-oral-history-project","tag-baje-whitethorne-sr","tag-dine-college","tag-navajo-artist","tag-navajo-nation-museum","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2359,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions\/2359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}