Special show with award-winning painter James Ayers

My newest sculpture, The Chaperone, features a Navajo woman tending to young sheep of her flock. Notice her garments: She is wearing the traditional blanket dress of 150 years ago.
You may be thinking that Navajo subject matter is a departure for me-and you would be right. My typical Native American subjects are high country and Great Plains warriors. So where did I get this inspiration?