Student art on display. Photo by Raquel Hendrickson

Maricopa Unified School District’s Native American Education Program hosted an art expo featuring student artwork, San Carlos artist Douglas Miles of Apache Skateboards giving a mural-painting demo and Maricopa basket weaver Lynnaya Joe showing the tools of her Navajo trade. See gallery below to follow progression of the mural, which was on paper taped to a wall as the sun went down Thursday evening.

Raquel Hendrickson
Raquel, a.k.a. Rocky, is a sixth-generation Arizonan who spent her formative years in the Missouri Ozarks. After attending Temple University in Philadelphia, she earned a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University and has been in the newspaper business since 1990. She has been a sports editor, general-assignment reporter, business editor, arts & entertainment editor, education reporter, government reporter and managing editor. After 16 years in the Verde Valley-Sedona, she moved to Maricopa in 2014. She loves the outdoors, the arts, great books and all kinds of animals.