BBB Launch | Virgil Ortiz

The Beyond Buckskin Boutique is gearing up for the big launch on Monday, May 7, and we've got Virgil Ortiz as our first Featured Designer!

Ortiz has been making art for as long as he can remember, and he began experimenting with fashion design in high school. Ortiz, along with his cousin Pilar Agoyo and a couple of other cool cats opened a fashion boutique in the early 2000s in Santa Fe. Called HEAT: A Freak Boutique, this store broke out of the stereotypical 'romanticized Indian' that was commercialized throughout Santa Fe's famed central Plaza area.

GON12 | Sharmayne Edgewater Finale

Clothing designed by Navajo fashion designer Sharmayne Edgewater at the Central Visionaries fashion show held during the annual Gathering of Nations Powwow in Albuquerque, NM, April 2012.

GON12 | Disa Tootoosis Finale

Clothing designed by Cree fashion designer Disa Tootoosis at the Central Visionaries fashion show held during the annual Gathering of Nations Powwow in Albuquerque, NM, April 2012.

GON12 | Disa Tootoosis Dress

Dress designed by Cree fashion designer Disa Tootoosis, worn by a model during the Central Visionaries fashion show held during the Gathering of Nations powwow in Albuquerque. Stay tuned... more videos will be uploaded, just as soon as I figure out how to do it! (yay video!)

Faster than a Speeding Bullet

Below is an edited version of an article written about Virgil Ortiz's recent pottery show held at King Galleries in Scottsdale in March. In his latest projects, Ortiz takes the Pueblo Revolt and throws it into the future: imagining a futuristic battle and a resistance that never ended. The review looks at his installation, pottery and video associated with the Velocity show.