A Shared Blanket Gallery
Downtown · Durango, Colorado
A Shared Blanket Gallery is a museum-quality venue in Durango devoted entirely to Native American art and material culture, presenting handcrafted jewelry, paintings, sculpture, pottery, Kachinas, baskets, drums, flutes, and textiles made exclusively by Native artists. The gallery's founders bring an exceptional commitment to education and cultural context, ensuring that visitors understand not just the beauty of the objects on display but the traditions, communities, and individual artists behind them. In a region with deep Indigenous roots — the Four Corners was home to Ancestral Puebloan culture for centuries — A Shared Blanket provides a respectful and rigorous introduction to living Native art.
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