Echoes in Mosaic: Generations Heard. Futures Imagined. 2026
Acrylic, cardboard, mixed media, and mosaic jewelry components on canvas
48 × 72 in.
Lead Artist & Muralist: Ehren Kee Natay (Diné)
Project Facilitator: Leanna McClure (Oglala Lakota & Mescalero Apache) of Kiksuyapi Collective
Guest Artist: Bill Coriz (Kewa Pueblo)
Created in collaboration with Indigenous youth from Santa Fe Public Schools' Native American Student Services
Echoes in Mosaic is a collaborative mixed-media mural created by Indigenous youth from Santa Fe Public Schools' Native American Student Services. At the center of the mural is a handcrafted mosaic stone jewelry piece by Bill Coriz (Kewa Pueblo). Through a series of five mosaic workshops with Coriz and Ehren Key Natay, 36 young artists aged 5-13 explored materials, techniques, color, and artistic traditions, and created individual tiles they divided into smaller pieces.
Following the lead of the intricate structures of stone and adobe at Chaco Canyon and other Ancestral Pueblo sites, Natay listened to the materials, read their colors, and then pieced together these tiles into the final composition. Each tile bears its creator’s distinctive vision while contributing to the larger composition, reflecting a creative process rooted in collaboration rather than a single narrative. At the center is the elder’s mosaic tile, encircled by the light of the young artists, all of it surrounded by exuberant creative chaos bound by timeless structure.
Acrylic, cardboard, mixed media, and mosaic jewelry components on canvas
48 × 72 in.
Lead Artist & Muralist: Ehren Kee Natay (Diné)
Project Facilitator: Leanna McClure (Oglala Lakota & Mescalero Apache) of Kiksuyapi Collective
Guest Artist: Bill Coriz (Kewa Pueblo)
Created in collaboration with Indigenous youth from Santa Fe Public Schools' Native American Student Services
Echoes in Mosaic is a collaborative mixed-media mural created by Indigenous youth from Santa Fe Public Schools' Native American Student Services. At the center of the mural is a handcrafted mosaic stone jewelry piece by Bill Coriz (Kewa Pueblo). Through a series of five mosaic workshops with Coriz and Ehren Key Natay, 36 young artists aged 5-13 explored materials, techniques, color, and artistic traditions, and created individual tiles they divided into smaller pieces.
Following the lead of the intricate structures of stone and adobe at Chaco Canyon and other Ancestral Pueblo sites, Natay listened to the materials, read their colors, and then pieced together these tiles into the final composition. Each tile bears its creator’s distinctive vision while contributing to the larger composition, reflecting a creative process rooted in collaboration rather than a single narrative. At the center is the elder’s mosaic tile, encircled by the light of the young artists, all of it surrounded by exuberant creative chaos bound by timeless structure.
Acknowledgments:
This project was made possible through the partnership of Santa Fe Public Schools' Native American Student Services and the Institute of American Indian Arts Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA).
Special thanks to Mvhayv Talon Claybrook (Mvskoke-Seminole) and Topaz Jones-McCoy (Shoshone, Kalapuya, Molalla, Lummi) of Santa Fe Public Schools' Native American Student Services, and Wayne Nez Gaussoin (Picuris Pueblo, Diné) and Nuttaphol Sinthavatorn of MoCNA for their partnership and support.
Supported by the City of Santa Fe Arts & Culture Department through the Art Is the Solution: Cultural Futures initiative.
This project was made possible through the partnership of Santa Fe Public Schools' Native American Student Services and the Institute of American Indian Arts Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA).
Special thanks to Mvhayv Talon Claybrook (Mvskoke-Seminole) and Topaz Jones-McCoy (Shoshone, Kalapuya, Molalla, Lummi) of Santa Fe Public Schools' Native American Student Services, and Wayne Nez Gaussoin (Picuris Pueblo, Diné) and Nuttaphol Sinthavatorn of MoCNA for their partnership and support.
Supported by the City of Santa Fe Arts & Culture Department through the Art Is the Solution: Cultural Futures initiative.
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