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These links lead off of our website. Use them at your own risk. If you find a link that goes to an inappropriate site, please notify Ken Rohrer immediately.



Northwest Coast Printmakers 
- 6 Nations -  from University of Victoria's Maltwood Museum and Art Gallery. Educational art game tests the user's learning of the Northwest Coast First Nations peoples and their art -- or go right to resources
Tony Abeyta - Navajo:
(see images and retrospective)
Nice image that may inspire an art project - birds composition from Pueblo pottery. Rainmaker Gallery
(see the Kachina prints - this page has one mature image)
Roxanne Swentzell Santa Clara Pueblo. See how Roxanne makes her sculptures 
Roxanne Swentzell - ceramic and bronze sculptures. Also see Legacy of Generations.

Richard Hunt - Kwaguilth - wood carvings, masks, paintings and prints. Also information about the Kwaguilth Nation.
Transformation Mask ArtsNet Minnesota lesson plan:

Jackson Beardy - Ojibway - Prints. Additional prints at Mackenzie Art Gallery  
Norval Morrisseau - Ojibway. Paintings. Northumberland Art Museum
Bob Haozous - Chiricahua Apache - Sculptures include wood, stone, aluminum, steel, and he is now designing artwork in titanium. He also produces drawings, paintings and photographs.
Emmi Whitehorse- A Navajo artist who avoids politically oriented material. She says her work is about land and the appreciation of the beauty of nature.
Continuum - 12 Artists- Ongoing Exhibit at Museum of American Indian. Includes painting, sculpture, prints, photography, video, and installation pieces.
Coghlan Art Gallery Northwest Coast masks, carvings and prints. Artists' profiles and selected works. See wood carvings, prints, paintings and jewelry in the Gallery. Native American Sculpture White House exhibit honoring 20th Century Native American Sculpture Twin Rocks Trading Post Navajo Rugs and Baskets
Dan Lomahaftewa - Hopi/Choctaw. Remembrance of everyday ritual and awe-inspiring ceremonies emerges in the artist’s choice of imagery. He died in 2005. Also see Rainmaker Gallery
See Animal Ancestors
David Ruben Piqtoukun 
- stone carving - Canadian Inuit. stone, metal and bronze sculptures. See Airplane  (top row) -Social Landscape Virtual Exhibit
Carl Beam Native Candadian - image transfers and mixed mediaAnn Beam - mixed media an paintings. Anongonse Beam - mixed media, encaustic, watercolors and more. Who Stole the Teepee?
Contemporary Native American artists exploring the impact of social, political, cultural, and personal changes. National Museum of American Indian.
Shirley Brauker Moonbear Pottery and Indian Craft. Ceramics, bronze and painting.

Native American Art Exhibit  Links to many Native American Artists  

American Indian Computer Art Project- An award winning site with galleries, a library, Digital Tribal Arts Quarterly magazine. Many of their resources are on the new Google Knol Library.
National Museum of the American Indian- A Smithsonian museum dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native Americans. There are large collections and exhibits of Native American art. Mario Martinez- a Yaqui Indian from Penjamo (in Scottsdale), the smallest of six Yaqui settlements, in Arizona.He is a member of The Pasqua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona.His work has been exhibited in 2005 in a one-person retrospective at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York.
Edgar Heap of Birds (Hock E Aye Vi)- a Cheyenne Arapaho. His art includes multi-disciplinary forms of public art messages, large scale drawings, Neuf Series acrylic paintings, prints and monumental porcelain enamel on steel outdoor sculpture. Also see his sculptures. Melanie Yazzie- A Navajo or Diné of the Salt and Bitter Water Clans. She grew up on the Navajo Reservation and currently teaches at the University of Colorado in Boulder. You can also see her work in the Glen Green Galleries.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith- She is a Flathead Salish member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Nation, Montana. You can see her biography online. You can see additional work on Artnet, Maverick Arts, and the Bluffton University site. Kay WalkingStick- A member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She says her paintings take a broad view of what constitutes Native American Art. Her wish has been to express their Native & "non-native shared identity."
Peter Jemison- He is a member of the Heron Clan of the Seneca Nation. You can find some of his work at Berlin Gallery. Jemison currently serves as the Historic Site Manager of Ganondagan State Historic Site – the location of a 17th century Seneca town located in Victor, New York Harvey Pratt- He is a Cheyenne and Arapaho tribal member and is recognized as an accomplished Native American Indian artist. He has won numerous awards and was named the Red Earth 2005 Honored One. He is a self taught, multi-talented artist involved in many media; oil, acrylic, watercolor, metal, clay and wood.

Native American Resource Links

Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art- A great site from the largest Native American museum in the U.S.A.

Native American- A selection of links ranging from the art and culture of Native Eskimos to the Plains Indians.

TeacherOz Native Americans page- A page with many links.



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