Biography of indian artists in arizona
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List of Innate American artists
See also: Category:Native American artists
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Basket makers
[edit]See also: Hoop weaving: Natural American basketry
See also: Category:Native American hoop weavers
- Elsie Filmmaker, Cloverdale Pomo
- Annie Antone, Tohono O'odham
- Mary Chessman Benson, Hokan, (1877–1930)
- William Ralganal Benson, Hoka, (1862–1937)
- Carrie Bethel, Mono Point Paiute
- Susan Nightstick, Hopland Procession Pomo
- Mary Roll Black, Navajo (ca. 1934–2022)
- Loren Bommelyn, Economist River Tolowa
- Nellie Charlie, Monophonic Lake Paiute
- Chipeta, Uncompahgre Flimsy (c. 1843–1924)
- Kelly Church, Ordnance Lake Potawatomi
- Mike Dart, Iroquoian Nation (bo
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Jimmy Abeita Biography
DescriptionJimmy Abeita
Navajo
Jim Abeita is a traditional painter of the Navajo people and the reservation landscape. Jim was born in Crownpoint, Arizona in 1947. Before Abeita could write his name, he was drawing objects that were familiar. While still in grade school, he would stand a horse against a flat rock and trace the horse's shadow on the rock, then fill in the details.
He lived in Salt Lake City with a Mormon foster family during high school. They gave him his first set of paints and brushes. While there, he met Hannah, another Navajo living with a foster family. She was to become the love of his life and the one who got his career off of the ground.
In high school in Gallup, New Mexico, and Salt Lake City, he won student art honors and later attended the American Academy of Art in Chicago, completing a two year course in nine months. In 1972, when he had been in Chicago for five years, he decided that he wanted to come home to the reservation for the uncomplicated ways.
He was impressed when his wife fished them out of the garbage and sold them. Having been born and raised on the Navajo Reservation, he was exposed all his young life to the ways of Navajo families living and raising sheep in Canyon de Chelly, that
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Fritz Scholder American Artist (1937-2005)
Born in 1937 in Breckenridge, Minnesota, Fritz Scholder knew what he must do at an early age. As a high school student at Pierre, South Dakota, his teacher was Oscar Howe, a noted Sioux artist. In the summer of 1955, Scholder attended the Mid-West Art and Music Camp at the University of Kansas. He was voted Best Boy Artist and President of the Art Camp. He studied with Robert B. Green at Lawrence. In 1956, Scholder graduated from Ashland High School in Wisconsin and took his freshman year at Wisconsin State University in Superior, where he studied with Arthur Kruk, James Grittner and Michael Gorski. In 1957, Scholder moved with his family to Sacramento, California where he studied with Wayne Thiebaud. Thiebaud invited Scholder to join him, along with Greg Kondos and Peter Vandenberg in creating a cooperative gallery in Sacramento. Scholder’s first show received an exceptional review. Scholder’s next one man exhibition was at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. His work was being shown throughout the region, including the Palace of Legion of Honor in San Francisco. Upon graduation, from Sacramento State University, where he studied with Tarmo Pasto and Raymond Witt, Scholder was invited to participate in the Rockefeller Indian A