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Indigenous Art

Passion (left) and Antelope (right) are distinct examples of indigenous art by renowned Pueblo artist Awa Tsireh.

While there is no universally accepted definition of indigenous peoples; indigenous art often references the physical, spiritual, and intellectual realms and the connection to the four elements of wind, water, fire and air in nature.

There are thousands of indigenous art from cave art & art adorning other rock formations throughout the world to modern day interpretations of legends as with below Legends of Temlahan

Albert Namatjireh was an Australian artist, considered one of the first famous indigenous artist in the Western sense.

Navajo artist Anna Mae Barber was the eldest of the original five Burnham area pictorial weavers

Lawren Harris, one of the Famous Group of Seven - a group of Canadian landscape painters in the 1920's.

Roberta's differently but beautifully colored and stitched interpretation of Munthe's Daughers of the Northern Lights below. While Munthe painted Northern Lights in an Arts Nouveau style, his style was inspired by and based on old & indigenous Norwegian art.

Indigenous art inspires us to see with another's eye through weaving, masks, paintings, etching, & sculpture. Humans across the ages may have changed over epochs and yet the yearning to create, record and share; remains strong and often very beautiful.

Jan's beautifully stitched Peace on Earth (below)