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List of Native American artists from Oklahoma facts for kids

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This list is about amazing Native American artists from Oklahoma. These artists were born, lived, or currently live in what is now Oklahoma. They create beautiful and important art.

Basket Makers

Basket weaving is an ancient art. Artists use natural materials to create baskets for many uses.

Beadwork Artists

Beadwork is the art of sewing beads onto fabric or other materials. It creates colorful designs.

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Martha Berry, a bead artist from the Cherokee Nation.

Ceramic Artists

Ceramic artists create pottery from clay. This can include pots, bowls, and sculptures.

Dancers

Many Native American artists are also famous dancers, especially in ballet.

Diverse Cultural Artists

This section highlights artists who create many different types of traditional and cultural art.

Vanessa Paukeigope Jennings
Vanessa Paukeigope Jennings, a Kiowa-Pima-Kiowa Apache artist who makes traditional clothing.

Fashion Designers

Native American fashion designers create unique clothing, often inspired by traditional styles.

Installation Artists

Installation artists create large art pieces that often fill a room or space.

Jewelers

Jewelers create beautiful pieces like necklaces, earrings, and bracelets.

  • Heidi Bigknife (from the Shawnee Tribe) is a jeweler and sculptor.

Painters

Painting is a very popular art form among Native American artists.

Benjamin harjo
Benjamin Harjo, Jr., a painter and printmaker from the Absentee Shawnee and Seminole tribes.
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Virginia Stroud, a painter from the United Keetoowah Band.
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Ernest Spybuck, an Absentee Shawnee painter, around 1910.

Photographers

Photographers capture moments and stories through images.

Printmakers

Printmakers create art by making prints from a carved surface.

Sculptors

Sculptors create three-dimensional art pieces from various materials.

Harvey Pratt
Harvey Pratt, a painter and sculptor from the Cheyenne-Arapaho tribes.

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