Raven Whirlwind
Rick Bartow
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Crow's Shadow
James Lavadour
James Lavadour grew up on the Umatilla Indian Reservation, is of Walla Walla tribal heritage, and is the founder ofCrow's Shadow Institute for the Arts. One of the Northwest's most respected painters, Lavadour is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art 2005, Award for Visual Arts from the Flintridge Foundation 2004, Oregon Governor's Arts Award 1994, and the Betty Bowen Award 1991.
Truman Lowe
Truman Lowe is a professor in the art department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a curator of contemporary art for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, where he has had a major influence in shaping the NMAI's contemporary art programming and collections development. Chosen for an Eiteljorg Fellowship in Native American Fine Art in 1999, Lowe is of Wisconsin Ho-Chunk background and has primarily worked as a sculptor.
Rick Bartow
Rick Bartow is one of Oregon's most important artists, and is increasingly gaining a national and international audience. Central to Bartow's work is the theme of connection and transformation, particularly between the human and animal realms, and between corporeal and spiritual dimensions of existence. Bartow's great-grandfather left his Wiyot tribal homeland in northern California nearly 100 years ago to homestead in Oregon, where the Bartow family has lived ever since. Bartow was awarded an Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art in 2001.
Phillip John Charette
Phillip John "Aarnaquq" Charette, ofYup'ik and French Canadian heritage, is the son of Gilles Charette and Tasianna "Nurauq"Charette. Born in Littlerock, Arkansas, Charette was raised in south Florida but spent summers in Bethel, Alaska, with his Yup'ik grandparents and family. Charette received his undergraduate degree in education and Native Studies from University of Alaska in 1990, and then a Masters in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from Harvard University in 1994. He was honored with the Artists' Choice Award at the 2006 Santa Fe Indian Market.
Ramon Murillo
Ramon Murillo is a member of the Shoshone-Bannock tribe, and his artwork is deeply influenced by his heritage and the understanding that grows from that background. Murillo received a Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from the University of Oregon, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Arts in Art Education from Idaho State University. He teaches art through the Northwest Indian College in Bellingham, Washington, the only tribal college in the Northwest.
Joe Feddersen
Joe Feddersen was born in Omak, Washington, on the edge of the Colville Reservation. He was drawn to art from an early age, and pursued printmaking first at Wenatchee Community College, and later received a B.F.A. from the University of Washington, and a M.F.A. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Since 1989, he has taught art at Evergreen State College in Olympia. In his twenty-year career, Feddersen has worked in painting, three-dimensional constructions such as basketry and glass sculpture, photography, and computer-generated imagery, but he is best known as a virtuoso printmaker. Much of his work is influenced by geometric designs derived from traditional Plateau Indian artistry, itself inspired by Northwest landscapes, flora, and fauna. Feddersen was awarded an Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art in 2001.
Edgar Heap of Birds
Edgar Heap of Birds is of Tsistsistas (Cheyenne) background, and is best know for his public mixed media installations. Over the last three decades, he has utilized nontraditional media such as billboards and traffic signage to deliver powerful political commentary. Heap of Birds is also accomplished in painting and drawing. Educated at London's Royal College of Art, the University of Kansas, and Temple University, Heap of Birds is a professor of art at the University of Oklahoma.
Lillian Pitt
Lillian Pitt grew up on the Warm Springs Reservation in central Oregon. Her ancestral roots run deep along the Columbia River, where her mother's Wasco family lived near now-submerged Celilo Falls and her father's Yakama relations lived across the river near the pictograph of Tsaglaglal, or She- Who- Watches. She became an artist in her mid-thirties, when she took up ceramics as part of a recovery process from back problems. She began with mask-making, and developed expertise in Japane.se Raku and Anagama firing methods. Pitt also started a journey inward to her own roots, and returned to Warm Springs to learn more about her people's stories. While clay continued to be the medium of expression, the pictographs, petroglyphs, and legends of her ancestors became the foundation of her visual language. By the 1990s, Pitt was working in several media, including bronze and prints. In summer 2006, she spent a two-week residency at Crow's Shadow, where these prints were completed.
Kay WalkingStick
Kay WalkingStick was born in Syracuse, New York, to a Cherokee father and a non-Native mother. In her paintings and prints, she has consistently addressed the issue of mixed ancestry, the meaning of land and landscape, and the spiritual dimension of the physical (whether of self or land). Her work frequently contrasts and connects the abstract and the representational. She now lives in New York City, where she has exhibited at the National Museum of the American Indian.
Marie Watt
Of Seneca background, Marie Watt grew up in the Northwest and graduated from Willamette University in 1990; She has art degrees from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe and Yale University, and has received many prestigious awards, including an Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art in 2005.
Woun Gean Ho
Wuon Gean Ho grew up in England and graduated as a veterinary surgeon from Cambridge University. In 1998, she received a Japanese Government Scholarship to study woodblock printmaking in Japan. On her return to Britain, she became artist-in-residence at Printspace and at Intaglio Printmaker, both located in central London. Recently she spent a further nine months in Japan developing a new body of work. She is a member of East London Printmakers and exhibits regularly in the UK and Japan.
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