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, [...]

A Native American leader

by CADE SORENSEN Robert Jarvik, inventor of the first artificial heart, once said, “Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.” Cal Nez is a leader to many Native Americans because of his vision and lack of fear. Nez is the owner of Cal Nez [...]

Cal Nez: artist, graphic designer, leader

by BRANDON FAUSETT The children stood silently in a line, their eyes focused forward, arms firmly placed to their sides, their backs straight. The hour has passed and the children are let go so they can make their way to school. “I feel like I was at prison when I went to boarding school,” Cal [...]

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 [...]