Southwest Fine American-Indian Art Dealer, and fifth-generation in her family business, Emerald Tanner is great granddaughter to some of the first traditional time traders and turquoise miners of the American Southwest. “I have a great love and respect for the stone. Turquoise is the gem of the southwest and a treasure for the world. My father, fourth generation trader Joe E Tanner, Sr has spent much of his career brokering and trading fine turquoise with miners, collectors and artists, alike; teaching me much of what he knows along the way. I have a deep fascination for turquoise, an enormous love for Native American arts and culture and am so thrilled to see the role of the trader shift to accommodate the modern day needs of my artist and craftsmen friends.”
The Tanner family has been continually trading among the Native American people since 1872. Tanner attended college at the W.P. Carey School of business at Arizona State University and currently resides in Gallup, working for and with her parents, Joe and Cindy Tanner of Tanners Indian Arts.
“I choose to be in Gallup because it is my home, but it is also the home and heart of Native American Art. The respect and relationships I have for and with the Native American people is something I hold very dear. I am enormously blessed to be able to share, wear, and promote this one-of-a-kind art with clients, collectors, and friends from all over the world.”