Mary Aitson (Cherokee) lhas since been weaving baskets for more than 25 years. Mary uses honeysuckle, buck brush and palm reed along with natural and traditional dyes to create her baskets. Her baskets have been shown in many galleries and festivals.

Booth 307

Carol Armstrong (Cherokee/Delaware) is a highly accomplished Oklahoma artist who has been painting and teaching professionally for over four decades. Her work often incorporates themes of spirituality and nature. Her emotive figurative and landscape oil paintings are known for their vibrant colors and powerful imagery.

Booth 422

Marco Arviso (Navajo) believes that adornment has a powerful effect on the human spirit. In 2010 he started designing his own jewelry line and communicates traditions of his people by using sacred semi-precious gemstones.

Booth 301

Alan Ball (Choctaw) is an award-winning photographer with almost fifty years of experience. His two main interests are bison and landscapes, which he captures in a way that whispers solitude and nourishes the soul. Ball experiments with pushing boundaries to create a narrative and lasting memory in his work.

Booth 412

Abraham Begay (Navajo), a well known silver jewelry maker, has won many awards for his exceptional jewelry work. Abraham owns and operates his own gallery in Flagstaff, Arizona. He crafts jewelry from silver and other precious stones with an attention to detail that is astonishing.

Booth 414

Jon Belindo (Kiowa) is an artist and educator, who draws inspiration from his father, the respected artist Dennis Belindo. He incorporates modernism and cubism in his work, and his exceptional art serves as an inspiration for his students.

Booth 221

Les Berryhill (Muscogee Creek) has won many awards for his exquisite beadwork.  He was named the Red Earth Honored One in 2014. His artwork includes beaded skulls, blankets, antique wooden utensils and western memorabilia. Les has been recognized for his skill and is the recipient of numerous awards.

Booth 305

Jolene Bird (Santo Domingo Pueblo) is an accomplished artist who learned her craft from her grandfather over 20 years ago. She makes her jewelry in the tradition of the Santo Domingo Pueblo in New Mexico. Jolene continues to refine her craft, learning to select the finest raw materials and then cut, carve, and shape each separate element to create her highly refined jewelry. 

Booth 314

Aaron Brokeshoulder (Choctaw) Aaron was inspired to learn the techniques of silversmithing from his father. He began learning more and travelled to many shows with his father around the country. With time he began to spread his wings and create his own one of a kind and whimsical pieces, each starting with a story to share with customers and collectors. 

Booth 508

Devin Brokeshoulder (Santo Domingo Pueblo) works with 2-D art. Devin travels with his family to showcase their art across many festivals and award shows. Still perfecting his craft, Devin creates art that is inspiring and impressive to see. 

Booth 323

Nick Brokeshoulder is a Hopi carver and well known for his creation of traditional Hopi Katsina dolls, a craft he learned from his grandfather. He works in a traditional style, using natural pigments, subdued colors, and intricate detailed painting.

Booth 105

Dylan Cavin (Choctaw) has been drawing for as long as he can remember. In middle school it was his interest that solidified he wanted to pursue art, in college he found his passion for painting and figure drawing. During his time in the army, he dabbled in various other forms and aspects of art, but it was when he began doing portraits of friends and pets that he felt he had found his outlet. Since then, he has won many awards and honors as his art career skyrocketed. 

Booth 208-210

Husband and wife, Emilio and Marguerite Chavez (Santo Domingo Pueblo) are impressive jewelers. Emilio has been making jewelry since he was ten years old, having learned the craft by helping his father, Joe Chavez, make slab Jewelry. Marguerite learned jewelry making from her mother and father, learning to make spaghetti string turquoise jewelry. Both are now fulltime jewelers. 

Booth 215

Dennis Chuculate (Acoma Pueblo/Cherokee) was taught the traditional southwest pottery in the style of the Acoma Pueblo’s by his grandmother and various other mediums throughout childhood. Being surrounded by the cultural arts of both his tribes, he has blended the designs to create a style unique to him. It gives his work a whimsical feel as he makes statement rings and bracelets out of gold, silver, and copper, adding heavy gauges cut and filed into eye-catching designs set with beautiful semi-precious stones and gems combined in a playful and striking color combination.

Booth 115

Dan Corley (Cherokee) creates masks that finds its source in the traditions and lore of the different tribes and his own Cherokee Citizenship. He shows the power and mystery of the connection to the earth, the spiritual strength of faith and the oneness of all things. In each original mask, one can sense the reverence and language of mystery, and that is the essence of their unique beauty.

Booth 400

Amber DuBoise-Shepherd (Dine/Sac & Fox, Prairie Band Potawatomi) is a contemporary artist from Shawnee, Oklahoma, whose works are inspired by her heritage. She is a mixed media and oil painter, known for her vivid and illustrative style that captures the essence of Native American narratives.

Booth 420

Terrance Emery Jr. (St Croix Chippewa) produces beautiful handmade contemporary Native American jewelry that consists of pendants, bracelets, bolo ties, and earrings. His work is composed of 100% sterling silver and all natural semi-precious stones and minerals. Each piece is hand crafted and unique with no two pieces alike.

Booth 107

Gary Farris (Cherokee Nation) is an award-winning woodworker and an Army veteran. He graduated from Northeastern State University, and served as the first Director of the Cherokee Nation Health Department and as Deputy Director of the Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission.

Booth 302

Tom Farris (Cherokee/Otoe Missouria) has been immersed in American Indian art his entire life. He is an accomplished artist, with his work showcased in numerous national art shows and major private collections, as well as in the permanent collections of several museums.

Booth 302

Ray "Duck" Garcia (San Felipe Pueblo) was born into a family of jewelry and pottery artists, and it was at the age of ten that his own interest in jewelry began. He began working with his family, cutting stones and making turquoise and heishi necklaces for traditional wear. It was at the age of sixteen that his mother formally introduced Ray to silversmith work. Today he carries on the traditions he learned, creating jewelry by hand, cutting and fashioning his stones and metal himself for his art.

Booth 500

 The night before Clancy Gray (Osage) was to begin student teaching for physical education, he discovered his love for teaching art. From there he created an art legacy of intergenerational impact in the Tulsa area with his teaching. Now retired he creates art year-round, using the impasto style of using a palette knife to apply his acrylics creating depth and allowing light to animate the paintings. There is stillness, balance, and movement with his work.  

Booth 207-209

Paul Hacker (Choctaw) is a strong believer of keeping Native American artistic traditional skills and cultural heritage alive. He meticulously handcrafts his traditional plains Indian flutes, custom knives, and replicates historical Native American pottery.

Booth 320

Crystal Hanna (Cherokee) continues the traditions and legacy of Anna Mitchell who she apprenticed under in the Spring of 1999. She practices the traditional method of Southeastern Mississippian pottery, in doing so making statements about her culture and preserving a heritage. Crystal participates in major Indian Art Markets and festivals across the country and has won many awards with her beautiful art form.

Booth 303

Starr Hardridge (Muscogee Creek) blends pointillism with a southeastern woodland beadwork aesthetic, influenced by Muscogee patterns and designs. Trained in classical art, his style has evolved with an abstracted symbolism and bold use of color and geometry.

Booth 321

NiCole Curtis (Comanche/Kiowa) is a native Oklahoman who draws her inspiration from historical photographs of proud tribal women. By painting these women, she feels she not only acknowledges them, but also honors them by giving them a voice in our contemporary world. She frequently incorporates tribal language into her paintings to teach Native languages while keeping them alive. Nicole is a self-taught artist who refers to painting as ‘her voice’.

Booth 417

Yonavea Hawkins (Caddo) is a bead work artist who creates unique bead work designs using a beading loom with size 13 cut beads. Yonavea uses the 13 size beads because there are more colour choices then in smaller beads. She also creates Native American cultural items using a 2-needles applique stitch for the bead work.

Booth 309

Jennifer Hicks (Chickasaw) creates artwork primarily using watercolor or ink, often incorporating hand-beaded components. She uses a variation of the stipple technique to create intricate images one dot at a time, often drawing from the iconography found on artifacts of the Mississippi people.

Booth 319

Anita Caldwell Jackson (Echota Cherokee) began pursuing art at a young age, using leftover paint by number paints to create her first oil painting. Today, she is a Master Artist with the Five Tribes Museum in Muskogee. She is accomplished in several media and especially likes to create sculptures out of leather.

Booth 404

Elle & Nick Jackson (Navajo) are passionate advocates for Native American artists. Nick, a fourth-generation Navajo silversmith and shop owner of The Silver Artichoke in Old Town Albuquerque, the shop carries the work of a variety of Native artists in addition to Elle and Nick's own creations.

Booth 514

Peter Johnson (Navajo) and Claudette Kasero (Laguna Pueblo) Peter is is a silversmith jewelry artist. Claudette is a multi-makes traditional ceramic pots and figures, strings beads of a variety of stones for necklaces, creates beaded necklaces and silver jump necklaces. She also makes beaded earrings, beaded/feather barrettes, bracelets, bow guards, and infant moccasins.

Booth 516

Linda Kukuk (Choctaw) is a self-taught, award-winning artist, named the Red Earth Honored One in 2022. She is mainly known for her scratchboard art, specializing in realistic pictures of wildlife, pet portraits, Native Americans, and portraits. Rather than always doing scratchboard in the “traditional” sense, she enjoys experimenting by starting with white clay board, adding either watercolor, acrylic ink, India ink, or a combination of these, then doing scratchwork on the surface she has prepared.

Booth 325

Jay Laxton (Chickasaw) grew up in South Texas where he first became interested in art, working as a jeweler’s apprentice and blacksmithing. He then started to learn leather working and ceramics after moving to Oklahoma where he started working at the Artesian Gallery & Studios. He is always willing to try and learn something new, he likes to mix things he has learned with the thought of “it’s either going to work or be a learning experience”.

Booth 214

Erecka & Tonialia Lee (Navajo)

Booth 117

Gwen Coleman Lester (Choctaw) focuses on capturing Native American subject matter to illustrate contemporary Choctaw culture in her creations. Her artwork includes illustrations of family life, dances, and stickball games, sometimes using Choctaw language as a design element. Her colored pencil drawings are realistic and tightly rendered while her acrylic paintings are loose and painterly.

Booth 205

Monica Lovato (San Felipe Pueblo) creates unique mixed metal jewelry with hand cut stones that she creates distinctly, as she believes each stone that is put in a piece of jewelry is destined for a specific person to fall in love with and take home. When working with clay she puts her heart into every part of the process and looks forward to the happiness she sees on those that take her art home.

Booth 115

Diane Martinez (Tarahumara) is a self-taught artist and is always experiment with new ways to make her pottery better. She also has skills in beadwork, textiles, photography, baskets, and jewelry, and has won awards for all. She loves to share her art with others. She believes adults become happy children with clay and children show their inner light when given a chance to express it through clay. 

Booth 318

Michael McAllister (Echota Cherokee) approaches each new creation with excitement as each is totally unique. He applies wax to the fabric of his pieces to control the dye he uses in each piece. His art tends to reflect Native American tradition and you can find his art in the Cherokee Mountain Gallery in Eureka Springs Arkansas.

Booth 406

Pat McAllister (Echota Cherokee) began painting at an early age, her talents passed on by her mother, a water color artist. Pat never considered any other career than an artist as she watched her mother in her studio. In her art, Pat uses her family and friends as models and places them in historical settings, making the viewer feel as if they are there with those people, in that setting.

Booth 408

Victoria McKinney (Echota Cherokee) followed her true life wish to be an artist and potter with the support of her husband after quitting her position at the University of Arkansas. Since then, Victoria’s art and skill has flourished, leading her to have received many awards across the nation and has attended many prestigious Indian Art Markets and festivals.

Booth 219

Ronda Moss (Cherokee) is a basket maker living in Pryor, Oklahoma. She specializes in weaving baskets with pine needles and making miniature double-wall vine baskets. Ronda's baskets are a testament to her love for her heritage and culture, and her commitment to preserving the traditional art of basketry.

Booth 504

Tim Nevaquaya (Comanche) is a celebrated artist and flutist from Apache, Oklahoma. Since childhood, he has sought to learn as much as possible about his culture, spending time with his elders and his father (Doc Tate Nevaquaya) who he apprenticed under for many years in both Indian art and Native American courting flute. By age 12 he was composing music on his father’s flutes. Timothy is one of a few Comanche artists working in a traditional and contemporary styles of Indian art. 

Booth 300

Lauretta Newby-Coker (Choctaw) is a talented artist from Noble, Oklahoma. She has an impressive skill set, working with various mediums, including watercolor, oil painting, mixed media, and her chosen specialty, stained-glass mosaic. Lauretta's mosaics are beautifully crafted, with a luminous and impressionistic quality.

Booth 216

Don Nieto (Santo Domingo) is an intergenerational artist, learning how to make heishi necklaces at early age, ultimately leading to his career in silversmithing.

Booth 512

Tonya June Rafael (Navajo) is a jeweler and designer from New Mexico, she enhances her sterling silver jewelry with a variety of bright-colored natural stones. She has won many awards for her artistry. She designs her jewelry and makes it all by hand.

Booth 306

Tama Roberts (Cherokee Nation) an artist who has worked with various mediums but has found her passion in ceramics. Working with clay allows Tama to use the four elements of nature to create unique works of art that express the influence of nature on her life. Each piece is original and cannot be replicated. Tama combines her love for nature and her Cherokee heritage to create beautiful and meaningful pieces.

Booth 322