All in the Family
Paris Bread
By Jean Kepler ross Indian Market is “always a homecoming,” said Waddie CrazyHorse of Cochití Pueblo, who enjoys reconnecting with friends who have “known me since I was at market in diapers.” CrazyHorse is one of many children of Indian Market artists who grew up around the festival and carry memories and lessons forward. “I am very fortunate having Cippy CrazyHorse as my father,” he said. “I recall the booth always packed two or three deep. I learned to provide basic customer service and how to be cordial and mature around adults and developed my social skills as well as basic business skills [in my father’s booth]. It’s safe to say that Indian Market helped me become the extroverted networker that I am today.” CrazyHorse was admitted to Stanford University in 2006 with a Gates Millennium Scholarship. “I was very proud of this,” he said, “so I made a few Stanford ‘S’ pins to wear at school. Stanford fans took notice and those started selling at football games. After graduating in June 2011, I founded Collegiate Silver, which became officially licensed by Stanford in February 2012 to produce their trademarks.” He is also working with several other 56
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universities to become certified to produce their logos and expand his business. CrazyHorse now operates a workshop in San Carlos, California, and uses both traditional hand-wrought and modern lost-wax casting methods to produce both the Stanford jewelry and his own designs. “I am inspired to perpetuate the ‘old-timer’ techniques that have been passed down from my Grandpa Joe [Quintana] to my father,” he said. “It’s a wonderful artistic legacy to be blessed with. I fully embrace the clean, classic approach to jewelry design that my family is known for, and I try to keep things fresh and interesting with various stones and my use of negative space. “I look forward to working alongside my dad once again when I come back for Indian Market.”
Sibling styles Paris and Jade Bread also grew up attending Indian Market, helping their mother, Jackie Bread, a bead artist from Montana. They first participated in Indian Market in 1999. “I was 8 that summer and I entered a large 16-by20 drawing of some buffalo and won an award,” Paris
said. When he was 12, his Prismacolor drawing of a Navajo rug won best of classification. “I was so excited and overwhelmed; that experience meant so much to me. When I was 15, I applied for and won a SWAIA youth fellowship. I got to go to afternoon tea [with] the governor of New Mexico and was recognized for my award. My drawings began to get more detailed and told stories about myself and my people — Blackfeet, Apache and Navajo. I began doing work in ledger style about five years ago.” Paris is now a media arts major at the University of Montana in Missoula and is learning to design websites. “This is an amazing, all-encompassing medium,” he said. “It seems a contradiction that I am so connected to ledger drawing while I am so connected to a medium that is the ultimate in technology.” Paris’ younger sister, Jade, will be a sophomore this fall at Great Falls High. She first showed her work at Indian Market in 2003. “Ever since my first year of showing, I have won some type of ribbon,” she said. “My art has always been ledger-style drawing, just not done on actual ledger paper. Searching antique stores, we happened to come upon a ledger book, making my art what it is today.