New Season · Winter 2026 – Spring 2027
Returning to the Basics
I’m returning to weaving and Fashion as My time being my Mother’s caregiver has ended.
Our Story
Where Style Meets Soul
I, Ephraim Anderson also known as (Zefren-m), am a Native American multi-disciplined artist based out of the southwestern United States of America. I belong to the Navajo Nation and have spent the last 4 decades continuing the traditions taught to me by my grandparents. I grew up in the eighties wearing clothes from the seventies and lived like it was the mid century Navajo nation. My formative creative mind was influenced by the esthetics of post war design, functional survival while listening to the best military marches and scratchy music 78 rpm records. Both grandmothers instilled the core domestic arts of their youth cooking, farming, sheep raising, sewing and weaving. I learned how to maintain machinery, and working in the fields and dealing with society from my grandfather.
I went to college at University of New Mexico after graduating Navajo Preparatory School in 2001. When in Albuquerque I volunteered heavily with M-Powerment Project a peer based HIV/STI prevention program and worked among my fellow LGBT+ community. After spending 8 years off reservations living on my own I returned to Shiprock to become the primary care giver for my Father whose just recently turned 75 years old.
While home I reconnected with Navajo culture and by 2016 became a weaving apprentice under Roy Kady, master weaver of Teec Nos pos Arizona. I’m familiar with living and herding sheep between our winter and summer camps of the banks of the San Juan River and the canyons of little Shiprock wash. Roy was skilled at mountain and foothill living of the Carrizzo and Chuska mountains. Through the experiences and guidance of Roy I entered the Heard Museum guild Indian Market and fair (Heard Indian Market) and the Southwestern Association of Indian Arts (SWAIA) in 2017. After spending two years his Roy I joined the Navajo Cultural Arts program and earned my certificate in Navajo weaving in 2019. During this Co-hort I studied and was mentored by Weaver Ilene Nagle, Silversmiths Wilson Arnolith Jr. and Lyndon Tsosie. There are all master in their respective careers and I value all the knowledge that was exchanged and sought by all.
Then the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the Navajo Nation in the spring of 2020 and suddenly I found myself helping and advising new farmers on how I remember it being done and donated time to the various food drops that happened during the subsequent lock downs. Despite shaving my hair and wearing 19th century PPE I caught Covid-19 through the healthcare system. Fortunately my Father did not get infected. I fought Covid-19 when there was no vaccine, Paxlovid, oxygen, or no room at the hospital. Covid on the Navajo Nation interview with Zefren. The after effects of surviving this caused me to focused back on to my art and class work as I was able to finally continue my college education. I’m currently a junior at Dine College seeking my bachelor’s in fine arts with an emphasis on Navajo Silversmithing.
Sometimes a 100 year music format is just as entertaining as modern EDM track. Zefren as Master of ceremonies at RRL Williamsburg
Our commitment extends beyond aesthetics. We source only sustainably managed timber, use natural oils and finishes, and package every order in recycled and recyclable materials. We believe that beautiful design and responsible practice are inseparable.
Our Mission
Old soul with modern eyes
It is my mission to capture history stories and archaeology to create modern art so these ancient arts does not Fade Away into only museums and books. While using my art to teach the next generation southwestern indigenous weavers, the Lost history and weavings of our ancestors. Through visits to Museums like SARS, Wheelwright and a collection of out of print papers I’ve collected, I’ve have started to rebuild a timeline of weaving technology and techniques of the last 2000 years. A new narrative emerges that reaffirms a collective existence between the ancestors of the tribes of the southwest.
Many of these techniques are a part of documented historic Navajo weaving and what I’ve focused on for my art. To bring forgotten everyday textiles into the forefront of Native American art and culture. The meddling of Ancient, modern, rural and urban can work to make new exciting art that supports all involved in its creation through the reestablishment of old weaving traditions to preserve sheep, land and language. Using the income from my weavings I donate time to Non profits with the same mission such as Sheep is Life and lectures to school children.
the abstract into reality have always been part of my process as a weaver and designer — A poncho in the Wilds of Northern California