Choctaw

Katherine Ashby is a Choctaw artist from rural southeast Oklahoma. With the support of her family, she has developed her skills independently and continues to grow as an artist. Her work reflects pride in her heritage and deep connection to place.

Lumbee Tribe

Joan C. Blackwell is a Lumbee artist and retired Department of Defense analyst. She teaches art in her community, and her work has been exhibited nationally and collected internationally. Her vibrant pieces reflect cultural pride and personal journey.

Choctaw

Mack Brim is a figurative oil painter whose work explores modern womanhood, identity, and authenticity. Her portraits and still lifes draw inspiration from the women around her, creating space for connection and self-expression.

Chickasaw

Donna “Dancing Star” Courtney is a Chickasaw storyteller and award-winning artist who works across drawing, digital art, photography, and gourd design. She moved to Oklahoma to connect more deeply with her culture and incorporates Southeastern motifs throughout her work.

Mississippi Choctaw / Shoshone-Bannock

Erica Eppler is a Mississippi Choctaw and Shoshone-Bannock artist whose work reflects layered heritage and cultural pride. Her practice spans traditional and contemporary influences, sharing visual stories grounded in Indigenous experience.

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

Donna Gina is a registered Choctaw artist and longtime public school teacher. For over 30 years, she has taught 3rd and 4th grade art in McAlester, Oklahoma. She finds deep joy in sharing creativity with her students and community.

Choctaw

Sherry Goshon is an internationally known artist with works featured in museums, magazines, and coffee table books. Her career spans exclusive shows—including for Disney—and she represented Iowa on President Bush’s White House Christmas tree.

Chickasaw

Destiny Green is a multidisciplinary artist working in photography, sculpture, video, and printmaking. A proud Chickasaw mother and graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, her work explores themes of memory, transformation, and surreal states of being.

Caddo Nation of Oklahoma

Kira Hayen is a Caddo painter and writer whose work explores personal identity and cultural intersections. With an MFA in Creative Writing from IAIA, she uses both paint and prose to challenge stereotypes and uplift Native voices.

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

Ashlen Hicks is a digital artist whose work explores themes of Native identity, emotional healing, and personal transformation. Her bold illustrations reflect lived experience and a desire to speak out through visual storytelling.

Citizen Potawatomi

Lauren Kelly is an Oklahoma-based painter known for her asymmetrical designs and dreamlike figures. Her work reinterprets Potawatomi and Woodland styles to explore themes of autonomy, ancestral memory, and feminine identity.

Grand Ronde Confederated Tribes of Oregon

Steph Littlebird is a visual artist, curator, and author whose work combines traditional Indigenous motifs with bold, contemporary graphics. Her art centers Native identity, land stewardship, and cultural resilience. She has been recognized nationally and collaborated with brands like Lucasfilm and Yahoo.

White Earth Chippewa / Hunkpapa Lakota

Sheridan MacKnight creates emotionally driven imagery that honors her Lakota and Chippewa roots. Her work reflects deep spiritual devotion and tells stories through a contemporary lens while staying grounded in cultural tradition.

Comanche

Cynthia Masterson is a Comanche bead artist and founder of Blue Dot Beadwork. Based in Seattle, she teaches beadwork at events and schools while creating assemblages that combine traditional beading with found materials. She also launched the Little Bead Library to promote community creativity.

Cherokee Nation

Hattie Lee Mendoza is a multidisciplinary artist whose mixed media works repurpose family heirlooms and community objects. Inspired by her great-grandmother’s Cherokee heritage, she honors generational stories through collage, textiles, and found materials. Her work has been exhibited nationally and featured in major publications.

Comanche

(with Crow and Chickasaw heritage)

Joyce Nevaquaya Harris is a painter carrying forward the legacy of her father, Doc Tate Nevaquaya. Her work captures the essence of Native life and tradition, often inspired by dancers and community figures. She honors her heritage through color, story, and heartfelt portraiture.

Caddo and Cheyenne

Selena Palmer is a Caddo and Cheyenne artist and poet whose work is rooted in cultural storytelling. She expresses her experiences and heritage through both visual art and poetry, describing creativity as her love language.

Comanche Nation of Oklahoma, Wichita & Affiliated Tribes, Kiowa

D. Jill Parker-Fields is a visual artist and performing arts enthusiast inspired by her children, both artists themselves. With a background in Native American Studies, she began painting to connect with her daughters and now creates works rooted in cultural pride and family tradition.

Comanche Nation of Oklahoma, Wichita & Affiliated Tribes, Cherokee, Kiowa

Hayla Parker-Fields is a young multidisciplinary artist whose mixed media and acrylic works reflect her diverse tribal heritage. A student at the Institute of American Indian Arts, her style is vibrant and deeply personal, drawing from cultural lineage and storytelling.

Chickasaw / Adai Caddo Descendant

Ashlee Ray is a multidisciplinary artist whose work merges digital illustration with Southeastern Native iconography. Raised disconnected from her culture, she uses art to reconnect with her identity. Her recent work includes ledger art and multi-media storytelling.

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma / Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma

Lauren J. Reed is a full-time visual artist known for her vivid paintings, drawings, and custom fashion work. A proud Choctaw and Cherokee artist, her work has been featured across the U.S., including collaborations with Urban Decay, Ozzy Osbourne, and Can-Am Ryker.

Mississippi Choctaw

Nancy Rhoades is a Mississippi Choctaw artist from Jimtown, Oklahoma, whose journey in art began later in life and flourished through community encouragement. Her work honors her family’s deep heritage and connection to the land, drawing inspiration from her upbringing and faith.

Cherokee

Polly Sharp is a plein air oil painter from Oklahoma whose work captures the natural beauty of the prairie. She paints on location to honor the land and its stories, drawing from her Cherokee and Irish-American heritage.

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

Candace Shanholtzer is a Choctaw artist who works in oil, acrylic, gouache, and graphite. Her award-winning art is featured in galleries across Oklahoma and Texas and in collections throughout the U.S. She creates full time from her home studio in southern Oklahoma.

Mohawks of Akwesasne

Leilani Shaw is a Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) and Northern Paiute multidisciplinary artist specializing in digital art, murals, and projection. Her work explores Indigenous womanhood, cultural identity, and storytelling through surreal, contemporary visuals.

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

Amanda Sterba is a Choctaw beadwork artist and painter based in Oklahoma City. She combines Austrian crystal, buckskin, and glass beads with oil painting and mixed media, drawing inspiration from the Oklahoma landscape and her cultural identity.

Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma

Minnie TallBear is a multimedia artist whose work reflects pride in her Cheyenne heritage and the resilience of her family. She creates conceptual pieces in printmaking, painting, sculpture, and performance that explore Native identity, historical trauma, and cultural beauty.

Kaw Nation of Oklahoma

Savannah is an enrolled citizen of the Kaw Nation and Tsistsistas (Cheyenne) descendant. Her work is a contemporary look through an Indigenous lens that is both visceral and inspiring. A multidisciplinary artist, her work encompasses beadwork, murals, digital creations, and original acrylic paintings.

Choctaw

Holli Taylor is a queer multidisciplinary artist from the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. They explore dance, film, and visual arts while also studying languages and caring for their Choctaw grandmother, weaving personal and cultural connection into their work.

Comanche, Kiowa, Cherokee

Whitney Virden is a floral artist and entrepreneur blending Native culture with contemporary floral design. As one of the few Native American florists in the industry, her award-winning work honors Indigenous identity and storytelling through botanical art.

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

Deana Ward is a Choctaw artist from Durant, Oklahoma, with a doctorate in Psychology. Her beadwork integrates Southeastern traditions and explores cultural identity and evolution. A lifelong learner and mother of five, Deana now works primarily with children.

Oklahoma Choctaw

Juliette Williams is a disabled Choctaw artist and community advocate working in painting and sculpture. Her art reflects personal resilience, ancestral stories, and her passion for uplifting Indigenous women through visual narratives.