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This is where you will discuss your definition of Native American art and what you think it means to be a native artist.

This is also where you will link to your contemporary native artist.

I believe that Native American Art is an intriguing form of art partially defined as natural, cultural, and spiritual. It's a beautiful form of art full of deep meaning and usually multiple meanings as well. However, it can also be quite simple and straight forward. I think it means the world to be a Native American Artist. I believe that those who can be called Native American Artists have gained a great privilege that not many can successfully do. Those who are Native American Artists present pride deep within the culture, as well as deep feelings of pain/suffering, hate, love, and beliefs. Native American Artists are lucky to hold that name, because it is they who can portray the culture to other parts of the world in beautiful ways.

The artist that I found delightfully interesting is named Jean Bad Moccasin. I'm not sure if you can call her contemporary, however. She was a Native American (Lakota-Sioux Tribe) born in 1947. Later, after realizing the deep heritage within her family, she migrated to the U.S. in 1951 to seek closer connections. Since she moved to America, she has ever since been intrigued with her heritage and is always eager to learn more about it. That's why she started her pottery obsession. It is what seemingly brings her closer to her roots. I love how her pottery really shows how much time and effort she took to absorb the special traits of her tribe. Her pottery is absolutely gorgeous and precise with a sense of contemporary-ness because it is somewhat abstract and detailed all at the same time. She was even an artist of the month of March in 2001.

Links: http://www.cla.purdue.edu/waaw/peterson/Moccasin.html http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997-06-17/news/9706170117_1_pottery-lakota-heritage-native-american/2 http://www.indiancraftshop.com/previousartist.html

I also found Yatika Starr Fields, who is much more Contemporary. He does some pretty wicked art. It is amazingly beautiful and swift. He has won a lot of rewards and honors for his art, and has attended many great schools to get where he is at today. He's been winning big awards since 1999. The coolest thing is that he is still young and passionate about his work (born in 1980). He's only 30. Even more cool than that... His parents (Tom and Anita Fields) are both Native American artists as well! He is composed of three different tribal connections: Cherokee, Creek, and Osage. His art is truly beautiful, and I think I like it a lot more than Jean Bad Moccasin's pottery, but that is okay. Ha ha.

Links: http://www.yatikastarrfields.com/yatika_starr_fields/artist_statement.html http://www.nativefields.com/yatika/bio.htm http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BcXY1K0cTfU/SyzU17BoJSI/AAAAAAAAHjQ/7hjHmXgddDg/s320/%E3%83%94%E3%82%AF%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3+25.png http://02a04a4.netsolhost.com/Artists/Fields,%20Yatika/103862%20P.jpg (The bottom two links are photos)...

-CHELSIE

Being a Native American artist can mean many things. It can mean you are native, your artwork does not have to reflect any aspect of native american life. It can also mean that your artwork represents the life, culture, and traditions of Native Americans. You can use your artwork as a way to sustain the culture and to allow others to see the way Native American people lived. To be a Native American artist it would be important that many outsiders have a skewed vision of Native Americans.

Kirby Sattler " I attempt to give the viewer of my work a sense of what these sacred objects meant to the wearer; when combined with the proper ritual or prayer there would be a transference of identity. More than just aesthetic adornment, it was an outward manifestation of their identity and their inter-relatedness with their natural and spiritual world."**﻿** [|http://kirbysattler.sattlerartprint.com/artist.htm] [|l]

Megan Parker

I say Native American Art is what it is. I believe this talent is in our blood, DNA, genes, history and Indian ancestry what ever you want to call it, so even if the great, great grandchild has 1/8 blood line left in him; he would still understand everything about his art and the reason behind it, because it would have been handed down from generation to generation; as long as he`s not trying to push off a dream catcher with a made in china sticker on the back of it.

If there is a method to make one`s life easier then I say “go for it!”, so what if she fires a bowl in a kiln, “big deal!”, because if her ancestors where given that opportunity they would have taken the idea for themselves. Every generation finds a better way of doing things. I was taught to do beadwork from my grandparents, and now my family and I do raised bead work, which still has the same concept and patterns from our ancestor`s. It`s the meaning and lessons learned behind the work that is the same.

Artists: Stephen Mopope, Kiowa, 1898-1974 Title: Flute Player [made as a template for a mural] Date created: 1924

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MOPOPE, STEVEN (1898-1974) One of the most illustrious of the Kiowa artists of the twentieth century, Steven Mopope (Qued Koi, Painted Robe) was a prolific painter. His work is represented in galleries and collections throughout the United States. A descendant of Spaniards and Kiowas, he was born on August 27, 1898, on the Kiowa Reservation in Indian Territory.

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Cora Doxtator

Native American Artist Native American Art can mean many things. I find this it would be very neat because it describes their background. I think that Native American Artist take pride in what it takes to be one. It is in their blood, how they grew up and experience life. One of the artist I found was Abel Sanchez [|http://ezinearticles.com/?Abel-Sanchez-(Unamuno)&id=2009042]

Abel Sanchez was also known as Red Cloud(Oqwa Pi) was a farmer and a painter. Megan Coe

Native American artists To me a Native American artist wouldn't just have to do Native American art. They could do any form of art they want to do. But i do think they should try to express their cultural backround in some aspect of their art.

One of the Native American artist i found was Joanne Bird. i chose her because she is Dakota, just like me, and i was intrigued by her beautiful paintings such as, her painting "Dream Catcher"

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-Cody Massey

Being a native american artist has many meanings to different people. Today there are so many different forms of art. Being a native artist could mean that your a great artist that is native american and the art is about natives, and the culture. Or the art could have nothing to do with the culture and still be considered native because it was done by a native american. Somethings that we call native american art today wasnt art back in our ansisters days, like the woven baskets or the pottery. but now that people are more modernized, and more efficient things have been developed thoes kinds of things are more displayed as art.

The artist if found is Tony Kitchenakow, he is a tatto parlor and currrently owns two tattoo shops, one in Millwaukee and one on Main street here in Green Bay. Tony has been giving tattoos for about ten years now an some day wants to open his own barber shop.

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~ kayla powless

To be a Native American artist you should always have a Native American twist in your art, even if it has nothing to do with the Native American ways. Your art should represent something about our culture. The art can be anything from drawings to paintings, or even music or crafts.

The artist I found is Scott Hill. Hill is one of the artists from the Oneida tribe of Indians of Wisconsin. Hill discovered his artistic tallent in a dream from a spirit-man, who awakened hiim to his abilities. Hill's oneida name is wakatatlihuni, which means " He teaches himself." Hill's art has been displayed in American Indian Arts Museum in Santa Fe, White Horse Gallery in Chicago and Cast Iron Gallery of SOHO in New York. Hill does paintings of Native American culture and the ways we used to live.

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~Kassandra Powless

The Native American Artist I was interested in is Alfred "Bud" Lane. He was born in Agama, Guam in 1957. He returned to his families home in Siletz, Oregon as a young man because he wanted to learn their traditions. He wanted to rekindle the dance "Nay Dosh" or the feather dance which was a traditional dance among his tribe. He studied under 3 Tuntutni Elders and learned how to make the Tututni shell dresses, which are worn for the ceremonial Feather Dances. The dresses are made of mostly Elk Skin and Decorated with shells, pine nuts, bear grass, and beads. The bottom of the dresses have fringes where beads are also attached, not only to make the traditional dress more appealing, but also for the sound it makes while the dance is being performed.

http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/historical_records/dspDocument.cfm?doc_ID=049A8B95-0752-AC71-4F831FD1ABBAEF2D

~Tracy Snodgrass

I believe Native American Art has to have a sense of feeling of the culture. When you look at it, you know it has a cultural meaning. To be a Native American Artist, you would probably have to have Native American Heritage, have a background of the customs that would give you an insight into what you want to make art. The Native American Artist I chose is Ramona Peters. Ramona is from the Mashpee Tribe. She makes pottery out of the clay modeling technique, balancing the male/female energy, she also uses crushed rocks and shells, she turns the bodies of the pottery into something which is to "increase our potential to become vessels on love and wisdom".

http://www.wldwind.com/rpeters/home.htm

Kelly Kriescher