Finalists Present Design Concepts, Share Their Vision for the National Native American Veterans Memorial

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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian hosted the finalists, James Dinh, Daniel SaSuWeh Jones (Ponca) and Enoch Kelly Haney (Seminole), Harvey Pratt (Cheyenne/Arapaho), Stefanie Rocknak, and Leroy Transfield (Māori: Ngai Tahu/Ngati Toa), who will advance to the second stage of the National Native American Veterans Memorial design competition.

The five finalists—chosen from a pool of 120 completed submissions—shared their vision for the memorial and presented their initial design concepts at “Meet Your Designers,” a public event held at the museum this afternoon. Each had 15 minutes to introduce themselves, explain why the entered the competition and describe their concept-designs. The event was webcast and is archived at http://nmai.si.edu/explore/multimedia/webcasts/.

Links to view the finalist’s design are below:

James Dinh Daniel SaSuWeh Jones (Ponca) and Enoch Kelly Haney (Seminole) Harvey Pratt (Cheyenne/Arapaho) Stefanie Rocknak Leroy Transfield (Māori: Ngai Tahu/Ngati Toa)

The finalists will have until May 1 to evolve and refine their design concepts to a level that fully explains the spatial, material and symbolic attributes of the design and how it responds to the vision and design principles for the National Native American Veterans Memorial. The final design concepts for Stage II will be exhibited at both the Washington, D.C., and New York museums May 19 through June 3. The museum’s blue-ribbon jury of Native and non-Native artists, designers and scholars will judge the final design concepts and announce a winner July 4.

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