Native American (Eastern Band of Cherokee), 20th–21st century, female.
Born 1957, in Baltimore.
Multimedia artist, photographer, illustrator, basket-weaver with paper.
Shan Goshorn, given the Cherokee Wolf Clan name of Yellow Moon, began training in silversmithing at the Cleveland Institute of Art and transferred to the Atlanta College of Art for her final year, receiving a BFA degree in painting and photography (double major) in ...
Native American (Tongva-Acjachemen), 20th–21st century, female.
Born 1952, in California.
Painter, writer, tribal scholar, cartoonist, basket weaver, illustrator, indigenous language activist.
As cofounder of Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival, L. Frank Manriquez, a California Indian artist and activist, has become particularly associated with the movement for language revitalisation and recovery of indigenous knowledge in the state. A multi-talented figure with a gift for humour, especially in her cartoon works, she has exhibited nationally and internationally, and is a board member of the Cultural Conservancy, supporting indigenous rights, self-determination and the protection of native lands. She also makes and teaches about baskets and is a board member of the California Indian Basketweavers Association. As the author of ...
Canadian First Nations (Inuit, Utkusiksalingmiut), 20th century, female.
Born 1906, in Back River region (Nunavut); died 2 March 1985, in Baker Lake (Nunavut).
Textile artist, draughtsman, printmaker, graphic artist.
Inuit art.
For the first four decades of her life, Jessie Oonark lived on the land, first with her parents Killivuk (mother) and Aglaquark (father), and later with her husband, Quablunaaq. A few years after Quablunaaq’s death in ...
