Laverne Barber is a Navajo Weaver from the Burnham Weaving area, south of Shiprock, NM.She is one of seven award-winning weavers from that area.

There’s something about a horse.

No matter where you’re from, when you see a beautiful horse standing out in the open, running across a field, or galloping up to greet you, their mane lifting in the wind — you feel it.

I met Laverne Barber about 50 years ago. My father had worked with Lavern’s mother, Anna Mae Barber, a long time before that. Anna Mae was the oldest sister in what would become the family that created the Burnham Weaving Area.

A couple of weeks ago, a group of us from the gallery, our partners, friends, and supporters gathered near Bayfield, Colorado to harvest and split firewood for some of the weavers we work with on the Navajo Reservation.