Marcus Amerman is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. He was born in Phoenix, AZ and grew up in the Pacific Northwest before settling in Santa Fe, NM. He received a BA in Fine Art at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA and took additional art courses at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. He credits the Plateau region and its wealth of talented bead artists with introducing him to the “traditional” art form of beadwork. He quickly made this art form his own, however, by creating a new genre of bead artistry in which beads are stitched down, one by one, to create realistic, pictorial images, not just large color fields or patterns.

Amerman draws upon a wide range of influences to create strikingly original works that reflect his background of having lived in three different regions with strong artistic traditions, his academic introduction to pop art and social commentary and his inventive exploration of the potential artistic forms and expressions using beads.

Although he is best known for his bead art, he is also a multimedia artist, painter, performance artist (his character “Buffalo Man” can be seen on the cover of the book Indian Country), fashion designer, and glass artist, as well.

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Mia is part of a large family of artists strongly connected to the Winnemem Wintu tribe. More information coming soon.

Lemuel holds a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Oregon. He lives in New Mexico and is a veteran of the United States Army, honored with the Purple Heart.

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I am a Klamath tribal member who lives and works in Portland, Oregon. I was named after a Klamath mythological character, Kaila, who represents creation; the earth, the land. I am an artist who works with a variety of mixed medium including oil and acrylic paint, pastel, charcoal, intaglio and ink. I graduated with a bachelors degree in Fine Art from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2004, and received a full Dorothy Lemelson Scholarship. During this time I travelled and studied in Cortona, Italy and Santorini, Greece. I have continued to travel in the U.S., as well as throughout much of Central and South America. In addition to my art and travels, I have worked as an environmental activist and fundraiser for various state and national organizations out of Portland, Oregon.

My compositional themes are varied. I have produced different series of portraits, landscapes, old world stone alleyways, spirit birds, animals and salmon. My travels and personal reflections continually inspire new themes. My work has been described as psychological, archetypal, and surreal. As an artist, I have been described as having good command of the human form, a strong compositional style, and a superb colorist.

My artwork depicts light and shadow at extremes, through intense color and high contrast. My subject matter reflects my interactions with the world and nature. I paint portraits of faces from history as well as my relations. Recently, I have been abstracting portraits of animals to render animal spirits. My animal spirits live within my memory landscape brought forth from my imagination. I use a palette knife to attain a surreal surface. I use stencils of my handprints as a symbol of prayers.

My goal as an artist is to paint the vibrancy, beauty, and psychological depth I experience from two worlds I travel within. I identify as bi-cultural, growing up in Oregon with cultural and spiritual ties to the inter-tribal native community. I grew up participating with my family in social powwows, spiritual ceremonies, and native activism. I spent my adolescence living in Germany and traveling through out Western Europe. My artwork attempts to bridge my experiences of places I’ve explored to my ancestral ties as an indigenous woman, navigating a modern Western world.

Traditional Fisherman and Artist. Graduate of University of Oregon. Founder of the first Native American student center in the United States. Designer of the U of O mascot.

James Lorenzo, a member of the Wasco tribe from Warm Springs, is a highly accomplished artist. He holds a Masters of Fine Arts degree from the University of Oregon, and is the Founder of the Lane Community College Longhouse

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Anna Hoover was raised on red salmon and creative energy. The daughter of commercial salmon fishers, Hoover grew up between small-town Southern Puget Sound and a remote fishing village in Southwestern Alaska. Her art education began at birth, as seen by the undeniable influence of her father Aleut sculptor John Hoover’s life and work. She then received formal education in art history and printmaking at the University of Washington where she is currently in her final year of study towards master’s degrees in art history and documentary film.

Hoover incorporates still images in her large-scale, often stitched together print-work. She describes her work as “striving to idolize Nature.” Hoover has work in corporate and private collections including the Denver Art Museum and the CN Gorman Museum. She has also been included in international gatherings such as Hawai’i’s PIKO, 2007, Connecting the Past to the Present in Khabarovsk, Far Eastern Russia/Siberia, 2008, and New Zealand’s Te Tihi, 2010.

Hoover recently traveled to Hokkaido, Japan, as part of the film crew for a documentary being created for the Burke Museum in Seattle, WA; an exchange between the Ainu and tribal peoples of the Pacific Rim of the United States.

This past August 2010, during the regional Native Art and Culture Festival Hoover mounted a one-woman show at the Fine Art Museum of Komsomolsk-on-the-Amur in the Russian Far East. The show was titled Roots Leading to Water and included video art, photography, linocuts and mixed media serigraphs.

Conrad Glenn House (November 1956 – January 2001), was a multimedia artist of Navajo (Diné) and Oneida ancestry. House's work was significant in redefining Indian art, utilizing many art mediums to preserve symbols and images of his culture and world cultures. His works are in the collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, Portland Art Museum, Wheelwright Museum, Heard Museum, Navajo Nation Museum and numerous museums and galleries around the world.

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Jesi holds a Bachelors of Art from Chico State and is a traveling artist, traveling back and forth from Florida to California.

Douglas and Josette Scholfield are a dynamic artistic family. Their family's involvement in the American Indian Dance Theater and Thundering Moccasins has gained recognition both nationally and internationally. Together, Douglas and Josette and Daniel create captivating art that reflects their deep-rooted connections to their heritage and showcases their passion for storytelling through visual expression. Daniel works in new media as well as performing arts with his parents.

Julie Scholfield (Douglas’ mother) is a traditional jewelry maker and specializes in large pieces that are hung rather than worn.

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My art means my heart. An art piece well done brings me great joy. I've done it since I could hold a pencil or paintbrush. My art represents the beauty I wish to remember and inspire others to save the animals and the habitat in which they live. My artwork is a gentle reminder of the past, present, and future. What inspires me is the natural beauty of nature and my ability to capture it on paper.

Jessica is a traditional Jewelry maker.

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