Chip Thomas & The Bluff Arts Festival (BAF)

This post is to broaden awareness of the Festival and encourage support for Chip's mural.

Chip Thomas is one of those amazing people you rarely hear about.

But anyone's who's traveled the Navajo Reservation has probably seen his murals on the sides of abandoned buildings.

Chip's website

Image use permission pending 

Time/date of posting: 10:11 a.m. Nevada Time, 10, October, 2021

In 2019, along with a showing of a movie about his work, Chip gave a presentation at the Bluff Arts Festival. This year there's a Go Fund Me campaign to raise $1,750.00 for a mural on Cedar Hall, a project that is part of Design Build Utah @ Bluff. I gave $25.00.

Link to Go Fund Me Campaign.

Below  are links to Festival-related events.

List of films at the Film Festival Friday October 15th, 6:30 - 9:00pm

Workshope -- Three on Saturday, October 16 & Two on Sunday, October 17.

Artist Market -- Saturday, October 16th, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Google Map showing location of Bluff Community Center where Artist Market happens.

And for those who do Facebook....

See you there!

Chip Thomas - Artist-Physician

Featured in the July 30, 2018 issue of THE Magazine. THE Magazine, morphed into Southwest Contemporary.

Jetsonorama

The Artist

Painted Desert Project - Pumphouse

WEBSITE

https://jetsonorama.net/the-painted-desert-project/

How it came to be

https://jetsonorama.net/welcome/


Blog

https://jetsonorama.net/



An Upload on Chip Thomas's Youtube Channel
             (uploaded Nov 13, 2017)

Beware the ditch at the bottom of the hill.

That poster is *adhered.* It's fully-seated in the grout lines. As a collector, my ambivalence was intense; maybe with time I COULD get it off. I consoled myself with a quote from my therapist, "Handling ambivalence is a sign of maturity."

Notice the word hor (lined through) between pump and house.

DETAIL

Above: I spent some time driving around Tuba City and asking folks, but couldn't find the work mentioned: Step on JR's House. 




Location:

N 35.95443 degrees W 111.39668 degrees


For those who prefer feet:

N 35 degrees 57.266' W 111 degrees 23.800'


For them what uses odometer:

About 6.5 miles N of Cameron on east side of highway 89.