What is Ty Townsend up to?

  • My 1st Market Post-School

    My 1st Market Post-School

    Hello all!

    I have been non-stop grinding since I graduated with all my travel plans, reception and overall recovery from finish school finally complete; I went straight to work on bringing my business back to life. There was a considerable amount of work to do after finish school, first thing first was bringing the website back and updating with more recent works. I worked hard to learn photography and cultivating my editing skills on the photos as much as it is still not quite perfect I believe that will continue to change and develop as I enter my first full year as an artist. Next was starting to apply myself to different grants, markets and events that I felt suited me for my future as an artist. I have been working to decide what kind of artist I want to be and the path I want to pursue. Next year I will definitely be at most of the major markets and I personally want to strive to win awards (not that winning is everything but I want to prove that everything I have done up to this point is something worth sharing with the community). My first post-school market will be at the Santa Fe Plaza on October 12th! I am happy to be selected by the 4th Annual Honoring Native Nations Powwow you can find more photos below for information. I will be located at booth #10. I grinded the past 2 months on solely getting my market table ready and getting a whole new lot of jewelry complete! The first drop is happening the same day I posted this blog post and I will have 33 more simple items coming up in the following week that are perfect items for the upcoming holidays or presents! Thank-you so much for coming along with me on this adventure and there is SOOOOOOO much more coming up.

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  • We are BACK! I have GRADUATED!

    We are BACK! I have GRADUATED!

    I am so finally happy to finally announce that I have completed my graduation from the Institute of American Indian Arts. As many of you know I gave my entire focus on my education. I made a promise to myself and my husband that I would give this everything I had and complete it to my utmost highest capability. I am happy to say that I did do that and achieved so much more that I thought was possible. I graduated with Alpha Chi honors maintaining a 4.0 and had the opportunity to participate in exhibitions throughout my time there. Since graduating I focused wholeheartedly on re-building the website and doing photography documentation of the work I created at school. There was so many works I completed that I was not able to share yet. I also did my senior exhibition work and shared some of the overview of it. I am happy to share it now on this website and available for purchase. I had a lot of inquiry on it and made the works available for purchase individually. You can also order the wooden display with turquoise in lay separately it is included as a set for the Navajo Bouquet No. 1 piece.

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