Mateo Romero
Mateo Romero’s paintings are rooted in both his culture and the history of the paintings that preceded his, right down to their mark making, surface, texture and use of color.
Erica Tremblay
Filmmaker Erica Tremblay selects highly sensitive and difficult social subjects for her films, yet manages to incorporate an inspirational element into each difficult story.
Bunky Echo-Hawk
Bunky Echo-Hawk’s paintings examine critical social issues affecting Native communities past and present.
Brenda Mallory
Brenda Mallory’s installation art examines disruption caused by assimilation and its resulting disfigured reconnection.
Tiokasin Ghosthorse
Listeners say they find the emotional intensity and rich sounds of Tiokasin Ghosthorse’s traditional Lakota flute highly meditative.
Cannupa Hanska Luger
Cannupa Hanska Luger is a creative innovator and an outside-the-box inventor with his own unique style of working in mixed media sculptures.
Aaron J. Sala
Composer and musician Aaron J. Salā is known for his exquisite melody and bel canto legato.
Thea Hopkins
Singer and songwriter Thea Hopkins incorporates her Aquinnah Wampanoag cultural background into her music to create her own special folk sound.
Preston Singletary
Glass artist Preston Singletary combines the visual appeal of Tlingit designs with the transformational medium of glass to create intriguing and exquisite sculptural works rooted in his culture.
Laura Ortman
Laura Ortman’s creativity in musical composition is uninhibited, fascinating and complicated—she is one who creates trends.
Luzene Hill
Luzene Hill’s installation art is an expression of her belief in Native American women reclaiming their personal and cultural sovereignty.
April Stone-Dahl
April Stone-Dahl is attempting to revive an ancient art form, by learning and teaching Black Ash basket weaving, that no one else in her locale is doing.
Dyani White Hawk
Dyani White Hawk’s dynamic multimedia paintings come from an inward inspiration of reflections and contemplations that intrigue, engage and draw viewers into the wonder of her work.
Amelia Cornelius
We are saddened to report that Amelia Cornelius walked on in early 2016 after lifetime dedicated to passing on tradition in her family by teaching the next generation how to make traditional Oneida dolls the same way her grandmother taught her.
Bennett Brien
Brien’s rebar sculptures capture meaningful symbolism of the Native Plains life and may also be a metaphor for the life of a peaceful, humble warrior.
Jim Denomie
Art curators, students, professors are studying Jim Denomie’s work and more and more are publicizing their learning of the intricacy, satire of his paintings.
Maggie Thompson
Maggie Thompson’s fiber art is relevant as the work draws upon our human emotions and is the core for the narratives that can be found in her textile designs.
Kelly Church
Kelly Church comes from a long family line of Anishnabe black ash basket makers. She is also an Art activist working to perpetuate the traditional practice before the Michigan black ash trees become extinct.
Frank Big Bear
Frank Big Bear first gained artist recognition for his colored pencil drawings, but recently made a radical shift to collage and painting, and in the process has garnered new praise for his work.