Woodblock Prints by Indigenous Artists
We cordially invite you to join us for the Marking: Indigenous Narrative artist panel at ARTSPACE at Untitled on Saturday, April 6th, from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
Please arrive promptly at 11:00 AM to enjoy a relaxed atmosphere with complimentary coffee and pastries and the opportunity to mingle with fellow art enthusiasts and our distinguished artists. At 11:30 AM, our facilitator, Vicki Monks, will guide us through a captivating artist talk, offering insights into our panelists' diverse artistic practices and cultural narratives.
Following the artist talk, from 12:30 PM to 1:00 PM, engage in an interactive Q&A session, where you'll have the chance to interact directly with our panelists and delve deeper into their work.
Take advantage of this enriching opportunity to celebrate Indigenous artistry and storytelling. This event is free and open to the public, welcoming individuals of all ages to come together and explore the power of narrative through art.
We look forward to your presence at Marking: Indigenous Narrative artist panel.
Meet Our Panelists:
Michael Elizondo Jr.
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Hoka Skenandore is an enrolled member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin in addition to being Oglala Lakota, La Jolla Band of Luiseno and Chicano. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2020 with an MFA in painting. He is currently full-time faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico where he teaches introductory Painting and Drawing courses. One of his main artistic pursuits is Style Writing, or Graffiti Art. He has been a regular participant in the Cheyenne River Youth Project’s annual RedCan Graffiti Jam, which is held in Eagle Butte, South Dakota.
Savannah Tallbear
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Savannah Tallbear is a Kaw Nation (Tsististas, Oglala Lakota) contemporary artist, muralist, and beadwork designer born and based out of central Oklahoma. Their art often features powwow dancers, wilderness, and an array of fauna found in her tribes’ traditional territories. Most often, they are trying to show the connection between things perceived as living and the land. When Savannah isn’t painting or beading, she’s learning new techniques to apply to both.
Kristin Gentry
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Kristin Gentry is passionate about using her art to create different ways to preserve her traditional Southeastern tribal culture of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. She uses her art to educate and restore the beauty of her people’s journey to where they are as Chahta Okla, Choctaw People, today. Through her art she continues to find more of her cultural Identity as a Chahta Ohoyo, Choctaw Woman, and Ishki, Mother. She understands that the need for her cultural art is necessary to the future of her daughter and her people. She works to involve her community through arts and cultural education. She strives at being the voice for Indigenous artists when there is none, and even more so for Native American women in today’s society. She is a writer, curator, painter, printmaker, and photographer. She often photographs families in their tribal regalia and creates designs and patterns from traditional clothing in her painting and prints.
Richard Ray Whitman
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Richard Ray Whitman (Yuchi/Muscogee) is an artist, activist and actor. Whitman’s artworks and photography have been exhibited at museums and galleries nationally and internationally - including a solo exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, La Biennale di Venzia in Venice Italy and the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts. Whitman’s work has been featured in magazines and books including Aperture’s Strong Hearts and Oxford University’s textbook Native North American Art. He attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM and California Institute of the Arts.
As an actor, Whitman has appeared in critically acclaimed films including Neither Wolf nor Dog, Winter in the Blood and Oklahoma director Sterlin Harjo’s Sundance Film Festival hit Barking Water. He is currently appearing in Harjo’s FX series Reservation Dogs. The American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco recognized Whitman as Best Supporting Actor in 2014 for his role in Drunktown’s Finest.
Hoka Skenandore
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A native of Oklahoma, Michael Elizondo Jr. received his BFA from Oklahoma Baptist University (2008) and his MFA at the University of Oklahoma (2011). Elizondo has participated numerous solo and group exhibits regionally and nationally. He recently served as the Bacone College Director of Art and is currently the Executive Director of Language & Culture for the Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes.
Meet Our Facilitator:
Vicki Monks
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Vicki Monks is a Chickasaw journalist who works as a writer, reporter, photographer and radio and TV producer. Her work has appeared on National Public Radio, BBC Radio, CBS "60 Minutes," National Geographic Television, PBS Online, and in National Wildlife Magazine, Rolling Stone, Vogue and First American Art Magazine. She’s won a long list of national and international awards, including the Society of Environmental Journalists National Award for Radio for a story about industrial contamination of Ponca lands in Oklahoma. She was a Professional Journalism Fellow at Stanford University and a Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado. Monks is now living in Oklahoma where she is working on a book about Indian Country and writing about Indigenous art.