For poverty-stricken Navajo Nation, a wrenching choice between development and the environment

by CHRIS MUMFORD Elouise Brown stands at the edge of a rise in the middle of the New Mexico desert, pointing toward a barely distinguishable plot of land in the distance that has become the center of a battle in which her family and the entire Navajo Nation have become bitterly divided. Brown is the [...]

Native American designer finds home

by RITA TOTTEN The definition of home is different for everyone. Some people consider home a place where family lives; others view home as where one feel the most at peace. For many, a simple definition of home is hard to construct. Cal Nez, a successful Native American graphic designer, has struggled with the idea [...]

Navajo artist creates success in art, business

by JAMIE A. WELCH Cal Nez, a Salt Lake City graphic designer, began his own business in 1986, nine years after graduating from high school. At the time, he was newly married and awaiting the birth of his first child. Though this may seem like a large risk to take, Nez simply shrugs and says, [...]

Salt Lake graphic designer builds business from scratch

by LANA GROVES Cal Nez remembered working at a small but growing graphic design business in Utah in the late 1980s. He was content being an artist and working on logos and designs, but the pay was small for the number of awards his designs were receiving. “We were the ad agency, graphic design [company] [...]

For SLC graphic designer, a life spent searching for home and helping others

by CHRIS MUMFORD Perched on the edge of a mesa overlooking Albuquerque, N.M., surrounded by a desert calm interrupted only by the occasional breeze, is where you’ll find Cal Nez with his laptop, sending email, completing the mundane clerical tasks associated with his work as a graphic designer. Nez, speaking to a reporting class at [...]