Heard Museum

Jill Ryan, KJZZ News, Phoenix.

For close to four decades, the Heard Museum in Phoenix has been home to the annual World Championship Hoop Dance Contest.

And soon it'll feature a new sculpture that honors the indigenous spectator sport that emerged from the American Southwest.

Gabriel Pietrasio has details.

And then, as you just mentioned, you did Spirit Rangers on Netflix, which I know was a huge hit or is a huge hit.

Molly of Denali, which I know is very popular and is currently and probably just ending in Phoenix at the Heard Museum.

They did a whole Molly of Denali.

And then Paw Patrol, which obviously everybody knows.

And then I'm also, I'm really excited to say I'm doing, um, a big book tour starting on October 6th, the Elysian theater in Los Angeles.

It's going to go until probably late November, early October.

And, um, For listeners in Phoenix, I've got an event actually at the Heard Museum on October 11th that I'm really excited about.

We're going to do two different talks, one where I'm going to talk a little bit more about my kids' TV work, I believe, at 11 a.m. at the Heard, and then another talk where I'm going to talk a little bit more about my adult comedy stuff through Dropout and Comedy Central and the book that's going to be a little bit later in the day.

Uh, we followed up a few years later that, you know, with how im- relations had improved, things like, you know, trash dumps on the res- in, in reservation communities, and, and business and art.

I did a lot of art writing, um, which led eventually to a job at the Heard Museum.

Mm.

I, I actually did manage a tribal newspaper for a while-

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I plan on at least an hour for the tour and it's just a great way to kind of experience a little bit of art and culture and just see this really unique Phoenix home.

Now, if you still have time on Sunday, before you fly out, I'm going to recommend that you stop by the Heard Museum for Native American Art down in downtown.

It's near downtown Phoenix before you fly out.

That'll be near the airport, and I think that would be a really great way to close things out.

I'm Susan Levy.

And in the studio with us today is Patty Talahongva, Chief Programming and Engagement Officer for the Heard Museum.

She's going to be chatting about the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, which will be held on Wednesday, September 30th, also known as Orange Shirt Days, which honors the children forced into Indian boarding and residential school systems in the United States and Canada.

And I know, Patty, you're very much involved.

And how you ended up at The Herd.

Oh, my goodness.

Well, so I am at the Heard Museum, and in my capacity, I oversee all of the public events there, which includes even school tours, K-12, and our educator nights, First Fridays, and also things like Grand Time Together, which is this coming, well, it's in September, to honor grandparents.

And it's so much fun to see when we put on these different programs how we never say our art activities are for kids.

Yeah, yeah.

I believe on October 10th, I'm doing a bunch of events at the Herd Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.

The 12th, I'll be back in Los Angeles at a bookstore called Vromans in Pasadena with Ali Beardsley, who's a super funny comedian that does a lot of stuff in the Dropout universe.

And then next week I'm doing like the 10, 15, I'm guesting on this really cool NPR radio show called Livewire in Portland.