If you are searching for Cherokee visual artist: Send us an inquiry at cherokeeculture@att.com

Or, we reccommend the following website:

http://www.ahalenia.com/noksi/artists.html

or visit the CHEROKEE ARTIST ASSOCIATION WEBSITE.

We proudly feature the following artist

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Pamm Martin:

Pamm Martin, Cherokee artist, is working on a Bandolier Bag for the Homecoming Art Show at the Cherokee Heritage Center.

She has also completed an Acrylic Painting called "Brothers." Based on a real life experience that her dad had when he was young.

She will enter it in the Homecoming Art Show, this will be her first entry in the Acrylic Painting Category.

She graduated from University of Phoenix and received my AA Degree in Business in May.

Pamm can be found at: Aural Martin --  Aural Studios 

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Lisa Rutherford:

Ms. Rutherford is a featured artist in UK/OK: Exploring Traditions in Contemporary Design opening at the Price Tower Arts Center on August 7, 2009 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. with a reception open to the public.

Staying very busy, just finishing the firing of a pottery, she is in the Spirit Red exhibit at OU, Norman, which is the collection that Rennard Strickland donated to the Fred Jones, Jr. Museum, Masters of Influence at Lovett’s Gallery which ends July 19, and the Generations exhibit at the Cherokee Heritage Center (CHC). Ruthrford was in the Beadwork Storytellers: A Visual Language, at the CHC, and an exhibition in Charleston , SC, recently. Look for her work in the Homecoming Art Show, the Cherokee Art Market and the Cherokee Holiday Art Show and Sale.

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Mike Dart

Basketry

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Roy Boney, Jr

roysunshine.com

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Joseph Erb

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Martha Berry

Mrs. Berry creates Bandolier Bags, moccasins, belts, sashes, small purses and men's garters, in a style prior to 1850. Click on her name to visit her website.

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America Meredith

America blends traditional styles from Native America and Europe with pop imagery of her childhood. Her influences range from the Bacone school of painting, the Arts and Crafts movement, 60s cartoons, to Moundbuilder shell engravings. She is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation and a hereditary member of Aniwodi, the Red Paint Clan. America is a board member of the CAHC. For more about America visit her website at: http://www.ahalenia.com/america/

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Sallyann Milam Paschall

Sallyann is of Cherokee and Swedish ancestry. She currently resides in Santa Fe, NM. For more information or to see more of her incredible work click on her name in the header to go to her website.

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Al Herrin

Mr. Herrin is a Cherokee National Treasure for bow making, and truly one of the nicest people you would ever meet. His soul mate, Frankie, is a spirit of uncommon gentleness and kindness. For more about them visit their website by clicking on Al's name above. The CAHC is always thinking of them, holding them in their thoughts and prayers to our Creator.

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Brooks Henson

Mr. Henson is known for his surreal plains Indian imagery as well as his Cherokee little people paintings.  His works are based on a detailed personal knowledge of Oklahoma Cherokee history and legends.  He has won numerous awards for these works, and has been honored with one-man exhibits at the Cherokee National Museum (Tahlequah, OK), and the Five Civilized Tribes Museum (Muskogee, OK). He is truly one of the most gifted artist of our time.

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Gary Hummingbird

Mr. Hummingbird is one of the foremost contemporary Indian painters devoted to the traditional flat style.  He is best known for paintings of Cherokee Little People, Mississippian mound-builder culture, and paintings of Indian dancers.  He has won the Cecil Dick Master of Heritage Award (for outstanding traditional painting) from the Five Civilized Tribes Museum for five consecutive years (and is the only artist to have accomplished this feat).  His works are included in private collections worldwide.  His works have been included in exhibits at the Five Civilized Tribes Museum (Muskogee, OK), the Bath House Cultural Center (Dallas, TX) and the Cherokee National Museum (Tahlequah, OK).

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Donald Vann

The images of full blood Cherokee artist Donald Vann speak of peace and tranquility, of solitude. They speak of yesterday's tradition and tomorrow's promise. Through his work, Donald takes the viewer to a place that is as real to him as the tangible world.

Mr. Vann is from the old Flint District, of the Cherokee Nation.

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Sharon Irla

To the casual passer-by, Irla’s richly painted portraits of Native American women are often mistaken for photographs or photo-realism, however, her technique would more aptly be categorized as realism flourished with tenebrism. Irla views creating an exact duplicate, as with photo-realism, “a bit too mechanistic”. By contrast, her style of realism and stated end goal is “to create art” – the focus of which is to “capture the spirit and focus of the subject matter.” She is a board member of the Cherokee Artist Association.

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Tonia Hogner-Weavel

Textiles - Creator of original clothing designs with a distinctive Cherokee theme and look, and designer of traditional style clothing such as tare/tear dresses and ribbon shirts. Tonia is also an arts educator both as a teacher and as a coordinator of cultural classes.

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Verna Bates

Verna (Watkins) Bates and husband, Fred, own a farm located outside of Locust Grove, OK and it’s on this farm that they raise beef cattle as well as plant, grow and harvest the gourds which she uses in her art work.

Verna began marketing her handmade crafts in 1989 and slowly transitioned to the world of Native American art by painting, carving and wood-burning subjects and scenes onto gourds. In recent years, she began to paint on canvas and has continued her endeavors with a passion. Included in her ever-growing inventory is bead jewelry. She designs and hand-strings colorful glass beads, turquoise, shell, crystals, sea opal, various other stones plus sterling and/or gold beads into highly desirable, very marketable, unique pieces of jewelry.

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~ Native Galleries~

NDN Art Gallery & Custom Framing
415 N. Muskogee Ave
Tahlequah, OK
Tues. - Fri. 10:00-5:00
(918) 431-1300

Jane Osti Studios
(Cherokee Nation National Treasure Jane Osti, owner/manager)
Hwy. 82N, across from the C.N. Complex
Tahlequah, OK


Oklahoma Indian Art Gallery
2335 SW 44th , OKC, OK
405.685.6165

Tiger Studio
Muskogee, OK