May
2001
MUNOZ NEWS
Hi Ho Arizona!
Rie
Munoz in Arizona
On
Valentine�s Day Rie Muñoz met her family, Juan, Cathy, and
Mercedes in Seattle on the way to Arizona for a 5-day trip in the
Saguaro National Desert. The trip was to the Tanque Verde Ranch outside
of Tucson. The ranch has 130 horses and offers guests a variety of
desert trail rides.
Muñoz
loves horses and rode them everyday of the trip there. She preferred
the �walking rides� to the �loping rides� (galloping). The rides would
be with 6 - 8 other guests and a guide. We took lovely horseback rides
into the Saguaro Desert, riding next to huge cacti, seeing javelins,
deer, birds, and the desert flowers blooming. One morning we rode
an hour into the desert to a scenic spot for breakfast. A chuck wagon
was waiting with a full course breakfast.
Juan
and Cathy took the horse by the reins and enrolled in the loping lessons,
graduating to the loping rides. These rides would start off innocently
enough by walk-riding to an open part of the desert or a river bed.
The guide would ask if everybody was ready to lope, then whoopee,
off we went, hell bent for who knows where. It was like being in a
western movie.
All
boys and girls, the latter outnumbering the boys 5 - 1 were enrolled
in a children�s program. Kids rode horses, played tennis, swam, and
did arts and crafts. They also got to eat their meals together. It
was fun for all.
Rie
Muñoz had not been to the desert in over 20 years and sketched
a little while there. Her heart is in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest
and she was happy to get back up to the rain.
New Release
Featuring
Muñoz�s latest print release. Entitled
"Big Toy," "Tar Paper Shack" and "Eskimo
Mother and Child," these reproductions will be released in a
750 edition on Tuesday, May 1 at 9:00 am Alaska time. There are many
different Rie Muñoz prints available at our gallery. We have
lots of her current work as well as some old Muñoz artist proofs,
silkscreens, and originals.
Give us a
call and inquire
if you have a particular Rie Muñoz print you�re looking for,
or e-mail us.
Old
King Island Photos
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Baseball
Season on King Island was during the Winter when smooth ice
prevailed.
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One
of Rie Muñoz�s King Island students stopped by our gallery
and asked to see the large collection of King Island photos
Juan Muñoz Sr. had taken when he and Rie were teaching
in 1951. Wilfred Anowlic of Nome, Alaska spent three days going
through the archives. He wanted to better understand his heritage.
While going through hundreds of old photos I decided to pull
a few for inclusion in this update.
Rie fleshing
a seal skin hide
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Rie
Teaching the King Island
students grades 1-3
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These
men and dogs just returned from a seal hunt on the pack ice.
The dog drags the carcass back for the men. One of the men
is eating snow and ice while resting.
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2001
RELEASE SCHEDULE
The tentative release schedule for 2001 and the beginning of 2002
is as follows:
February 13,
2001
2 prints
May
1, 2001
3 prints
August
1, 2001
3 prints
November
1, 2001
3 prints
January
4, 2002
1 silkscreen