Lynnette Haozous facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Lynnette Haozous
Haozous in 2021
Born	1985 (age 39–40)
Alma mater	New Mexico Highlands University, Central New Mexico Community College
Known for	Murals, Painting, Mixed Media
Style	Artivism, Art of the American Southwest

Lynnette Haozous (born in 1985) is a talented Native American artist. She is a painter, printmaker, jeweler, writer, and even an actor! Lynnette is a member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe. She also has roots in the Chiricahua Apache, Navajo, and Taos Pueblo communities. Lynnette uses many different art forms, like acrylics, watercolors, and spray paint. She is especially famous for her large murals. Lynnette uses her art to speak up about important social issues and unfairness, blending art with activism.

About Lynnette Haozous

Lynnette Haozous comes from a rich background. Her ancestors include the Chiricahua Apache, Navajo, and Taos Pueblo people. She grew up moving between Arizona and New Mexico. Lynnette has shared that living in different places helped her feel a strong connection to all her ancestors. She says each part of her family history has influenced her artwork. Lynnette also comes from an artistic family. Her great-uncle, Allan Houser, was a very famous sculptor who inspired her.

Lynnette studied social work at New Mexico Highlands University, graduating in 2016. She also took studio art classes at Central New Mexico Community College.

Lynnette's Art Career

Lynnette Haozous painting Into the Sun (2021)

Lynnette Haozous is known as an artivist. This means she uses her art to create positive social change. She wants to help make communities stronger and better. Lynnette works with many different materials, including paint, jewelry, and screen-printing. She also writes and acts. However, she is most famous for her murals, which often combine spray paint and stencils.

Lynnette loves creating murals because they can speak directly to people. She explained that murals are easily seen by everyone. This allows her to talk about important social issues that affect people right in their own neighborhoods.

Important Art Projects

In 2020, Lynnette's art piece called Braiding Reconciliation was shown. It was part of the Reconciliation exhibit at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA). This exhibit was created by Native American and Indo-Hispano artists. It focused on truth, healing, and the idea of reconciliation. The exhibit was a response to a long effort to stop La Entrada. This was an annual pageant that showed the Spanish reconquest of New Mexico in 1692.

Lynnette Haozous's installation used cords to represent past hurts and the hope for future reconciliation. Knots in the cords reminded people of the knots used by Pueblo runners. These runners used knots to send messages and mark time during the successful Pueblo Revolt of 1680. At the bottom of her artwork, rocks from different communities held the cords in place.

Lynnette Haozous's first art project outside New Mexico was for the Portland Art Museum. It was part of their Mesh exhibit in 2021. The Mesh exhibit showed art from four Native American artists. Their work explored social issues like the fight against unfairness and conflicts over Indigenous land rights. The exhibit highlighted Native American culture. It also reminded viewers that art can be a powerful way to bring about change. Haozous's mural, titled Into the Sun, aimed to bring back the presence and power of Native women in a space that had been shaped by colonization.

In 2023, Lynnette Haozous's mural Seeds of Change was chosen for a special event. It was selected to celebrate The Harwood Museum's 100th birthday in Taos, New Mexico. The mural is eight feet tall and 10 feet wide. It shows a baby and three young Taos Pueblo women. Lynnette said she likes to paint Native people living in the modern world. She shows them while still carrying on their ancient traditions.

Lynnette's Artworks

Murals

Mixed Media Art

Google Doodle

On November 3, 2023, a special Google Doodle honored Native American Heritage Month. This doodle featured Allan Houser, Lynnette Haozous's great-uncle. Lynnette herself illustrated this doodle! The artwork included Apache stars and a yucca plant, which represents the desert homeland of the Apache people. It also showed an Apache wikiup, the Sun (which is very important in Apache culture), and the Three Sisters Mountain. This mountain is one of four mountains sacred to Chiricahua and Apache people.

Other Achievements

Lynnette Haozous has been recognized for her talent. She was an artist-in-residence at the Santa Fe Art Institute from 2018 to 2019. She also had residencies at Nativo Lodge in 2017 and 2012. In 2020, she received the Native Arts and Culture Foundation Mentor Artist Fellowship Award. In 2023, her mural Seeds of the Future won the Centennial Call to Artists from the Harwood Museum of Art. That same year, Southwest Contemporary magazine named her one of the "12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now."