{{Short description|Navajo weaver and educator}} '''Joyce Begay-Foss''' is a Diné weaver, educator, and curator. She is the director of education at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture.<ref name=":1"/> For her weavings, she has received more than 20 awards at the Santa Fe Indian Market and Eight Northern Pueblos arts and crafts show.<ref name=":8"/>
==Life and career== Begay-Foss was born in Shiprock, New Mexico.<ref name=":0"/> Her parents are Helen (née Smith) and Fred Begay, a physicist and traditional healer.<ref name=":7"/> She grew up both in Northern New Mexico and on a Navajo reservation in Arizona.<ref name=":0"/> When she was young, she and her family moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico.<ref name=":0"/>
She began weaving in her 20s, and started the company Walk In Beauty Fiber Arts in her 30s.<ref name=":0"/><ref name=":11"/> She was a curator at the Poeh Museum, leaving the position in the 1990s.<ref name=":10"/> In 1998, she became the curator of education at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC), and in 2000, she became director of education for their newly opened Living Traditions Center.<ref name=":0"/> In 2008, she was selected as the Chairperson of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, which combats counterfeits and promotes economic development of Native American arts and crafts.<ref name=":2"/>
In 2011, after the two-year exhibit "Spider Woman’s (Na ashje’ii ‘Asdzáá) Gift: Navajo Weaving Traditions" at the MIAC, Begay-Foss was a co-writer of the book "Spider Woman’s Gift: Nineteenth Century Diné Textiles."<ref name=":5"/> The book discusses Diné basket and textile weavings from the 1850s to the 1890s.<ref name=":6"/> In 2019, Begay-Foss curated the exhibition ''Lifeways of the Southern Athabaskans'' at the MIAC, which received an Award of Excellence from the American Association for State and Local History.<ref name=":3"/><ref name=":4"/>
Begay-Foss teaches weaving to children and adults. She has won awards for her weavings at the Santa Fe Indian Market and Eight Northern Pueblos arts and crafts show.<ref name=":9"/>
== References == <references>
<ref name=":0">{{cite news |last1=Cline |first1=Lynn |title=Weaving cultures |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58609448/weaving-cultures/ |accessdate=11 April 2020 |work=The Santa Fe New Mexican |date=14 January 2000 |location=Santa Fe, New Mexico |page=16}}</ref>
<ref name=":1">{{cite web |title=Museum Information |url=https://media.newmexicoculture.org/institution/contacts/1/ |website=New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs Media Center |accessdate=4 September 2020}}</ref>
<ref name=":2">{{cite web |title=Joyce Begay-Foss and Rebecca Webster Selected as Indian Arts and Crafts Board Chairperson and Vice Chairperson |url=https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/archive/news/archive/08_News_Releases/112608.html |publisher=U.S. Department of the Interior |accessdate=11 April 2020 |date=26 November 2008}}</ref>
<ref name=":3">{{cite web |title=MIAC Celebrates Exhibitions and Awards |url=http://www.indianartsandculture.org/whatsnew?releaseID=934 |publisher=Museum of Indian Arts & Culture |accessdate=12 April 2020 |date=15 May 2019}}</ref>
<ref name=":4">{{cite web |title=AASLH Awards Banquet |url=http://download.aaslh.org/Awards+Program/2019+awards+program+final.pdf#page=12 |publisher=American Association for State and Local History |accessdate=13 April 2020}}</ref>
<ref name=":5">{{cite web |last1=McKenna |first1=Arin |title='Spider Woman's Gift' offers insight into Navajo weaving {{!}} LAMonitor.com |url=https://www.lamonitor.com/content/spider-womans-gift-offers-insight-navajo-weaving |website=LA Monitor |accessdate=31 July 2020 |date=25 August 2011}}</ref>
<ref name=":6">{{cite news |title='Spider Woman's Gift' author comes to Shiprock |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-nov-17-2011-1888695 |accessdate=31 July 2020 |work=Farmington Daily Times |date=23 November 2011 |page=5 |language=en |via=newspaperarchive.com}}</ref>
<ref name=":7">{{cite news |title=Navajo physicist, traditional healer dies at age 80 |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/obituary-clipping-jun-13-2013-1888722/ |accessdate=31 July 2020 |work=Window Rock Navajo Times |date=13 June 2013 |page=A-11}}</ref>
<ref name=":8">{{cite news |last1=Bellard |first1=Betty |title=Navajo weaver teaches youth dying artform |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58530868/carlsbad-current-argus/ |accessdate=4 September 2020 |work=Carlsbad Current-Argus |date=6 July 1996 |page=3A}}</ref>
<ref name=":9">{{cite news |last1=Indyke |first1=Dottie |title=Begay-Foss finding her own way in rug weaving |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-aug-01-1997-1888738/ |accessdate=31 July 2020 |work=Santa Fe New Mexican |date=1 August 1997 |page=32}}</ref>
<ref name=":10">{{cite news |title=Begay-Foss to Discuss Work as Navajo Weaver |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51237007/begay-foss-to-discuss-work-as-navajo/ |accessdate=4 September 2020 |work=Rio Grande Sun |date=24 October 1996}}</ref>
<ref name=":11">{{cite news |last1=Linthicum |first1=Leslie |title=Designing Women |work=Albuquerque Journal |date=5 April 1992}} *For first page of the article, see [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51236055/joyce-begay-foss/ Page 10] *For second page of the article, see [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58615741/begay-foss/ Page 11]</ref>
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