Heard Museum Documents Shirley Pino Teaching Pueblo Garment-Making to 14 Artists from 7 Pueblos

Highlights

• Shirley Pino of Red Wing Collections, Santa Ana Pueblo, taught 14 participants from 7 Pueblos to make traditional Pueblo garments at the Heard Museum.
• The workshop, part of the Heard's Master Artist Workshop program, focused on mantas — garments worn in Pueblo ceremonies.
• Diné filmmaker Kelso Meyer documented the session; the Heard published the film in December 2025.
• The Heard's Master Artist Workshop program aims to preserve customary art skills and encourage participants to share knowledge with their home communities.

The Heard Museum released a documentary film this month capturing master artist Shirley Pino of Red Wing Collections, from Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, teaching 14 participants from seven Pueblos the traditional craft of manta-making — garments worn in Pueblo ceremonies.

Pino, who has devoted much of her life to Pueblo clothing and fashion, regards sewing and garment-making as a means of safeguarding her community's cultural heritage. The workshop is part of the Heard's ongoing Master Artist Workshop program, which is dedicated to preserving and strengthening customary art skills and knowledge for Native communities throughout the Southwest. The program's stated goal is for participants to carry skills back to their own communities.

Diné filmmaker Kelso Meyer documented the session. The film, published to the Heard's website and YouTube channel in June 2025, follows participants as they complete garments they can wear to their ceremonies.

The Heard's broader programming in 2026 includes a survey of Native painting curated by Roshii Montaño, an Annual Indian Fair & Market with a juried Best of Show competition, and a Katsina Marketplace featuring Hopi carvers. The museum previously collaborated with master ceramicist Rosemary Lonewolf of Santa Clara Pueblo on a virtual art talk.

The film is available now at heard.org.

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