Clara Sherman
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". Clara Nezbah Sherman (February 18, 1914 – July 31, 2010)[1][2] was a Navajo artist particularly known for her Navajo rugs. Born Nezbah Gould, her mother was of the Template:Spell-nv clan, and her father was of the Template:Spell-nv. She was the last surviving member of ten siblings including an adopted sister. Sherman and her siblings learned to weave as children from her family, who specialized in the craft.[3] Clara had several children with her husband, John Sherman. Her daughters and granddaughters also learned to weave.[4]
She played the harmonica, and could "keep a melody and bass line going at the same time."[5]
In 2006, she was awarded the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts by the governor of New Mexico in association with the National Endowment for the Arts. She is one of the artists whose work is available at the historic Toadlena Trading Post on New Mexico Arts' Fiber Arts Trail.[5]
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- ↑ Reweaving culture's fabric Navajo rugs see revival via outsider Template:Webarchive June 9, 2002, Denver Post, "And Winter bought new dentures for 87-year-old Clara Sherman, one of the best living Navajo weavers."
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External links
- Video of Clara Sherman carding and spinning wool, YouTube
- Photos of Clara Sherman
- Woven rug portrait of Clara playing her harmonica
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- Navajo textile artists
- Navajo women artists
- Weavers from New Mexico
- American harmonica players
- 1914 births
- 2010 deaths
- People from San Juan County, New Mexico
- 20th-century American women artists
- Native American women artists
- 20th-century women textile artists
- 20th-century American textile artists
- 20th-century Native American artists
- 21st-century Native American artists
- 20th-century Native American women
- 21st-century Native American women