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“… And if my art does nothing else, I pray it makes you feel.” — Na’Tosha De’Von

Artists 360, a program of the Mid-America Arts Alliance, provides grant funding and professional development opportunities to individual artists of all disciplines in Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Sebastian and Washington counties. Among 2022 recipients was Na’Tosha De’Von, a talented actor familiar to theater fans from Northwest Arkansas stages like TheatreSquared (“School Girls,” “The Royale,” “Detroit ’67”), Trike (“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”) and the University of Arkansas (“Macbeth,” “Avenue Q”).

A native of Chicago, De’Von was raised in Mississippi and says she began her journey into the arts “by way of God’s design.” She has an undergraduate degree in Speech Communication and Theatre from Jackson (Miss.) State University and a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from the UA. Since receiving her MFA, she has become a teaching artist, freelance poet and a professional, working actor.

“I believe the purpose of my art is to expose and heal,” she says on her website. “One cannot heal the parts that are broken if they do not see them. So the exposure, while brutal, is a necessary madness. I would like to think the first words I ever spoke were in the form of a metaphor. With that, I acknowledge the power of words. My love for language has allowed me to develop poetry and take on the nuances of characters as an actor.”

Her Artists 360 project, “Ain’t I a Woman,” a one-person show about a young Black woman named Nia, will take the stage Aug. 10-12 at the Global Campus Theater in Fayetteville. De’Von answered these questions for What’s Up!

Q. How did the Artists 360 grant impact your artistic life to allow this to happen?

A. The Artists 360 grant has allowed me to share my artwork with my local community. It has helped me publish my poetry chapbook. And honestly it took a lot of the financial burden off of creating.

Q. Tell me a little about you and growing up and what inspired your passion for acting — and for teaching?

A. I grew up in a single-parent home in poverty. I am a first-generation college student on both sides of my family. I wanted to go into something more practical. I started doing poetry and acting because God showed me this was what He wanted me to do with my life, and I just listened. I teach because there is such an importance for Black teachers, and I love the concept of giving back.

Q. How did you wind up at the UA? What did you learn there that has shaped the course of your career?

A. I went to the University of Arkansas for grad school to get my MFA in acting. The one thing that I would take from the UA outside of my training is the impact of my voice — how my voice is one that the world needs to hear. I learned that my voice has the ability to impact others and make space for change and growth.

Q. Tell me about the plot of your show, what inspired it and how much of you is in the story?

A. The show is about a young girl name Nia. It takes you on her life’s journey as she tries to create her own version of womanhood. It is a beautiful, poetic story that is full of emotions and comedy. I was inspired to write this story as a form of therapy and healing. I wanted to create a piece that opened the doors to needed conversation.

Q. What do you hope audience members are talking about as they leave the show?

A. I would love for the audience to leave the show feeling seen and that they are able to take the first step in their healing process. I also want the audience to leave with their hearts full. I plan to continue to push the story out there and travel it to different universities and theater companies.

FAQ

‘Ain’t I A Woman’

WHEN — 7 p.m. Aug. 10-11, 2 p.m. Aug. 12

WHERE — UA Global Campus Theater, 2 E. Center St. in Fayetteville

COST — $15-$25

INFO — eventbrite.com

    NaTosha DeVon is already well known to theater fans from Northwest Arkansas stages like TheatreSquared (“School Girls,” “The Royale,” “Detroit ’67”), Trike (“A Midsummer Nights Dream”) and the University of Arkansas (“Macbeth,” “Avenue Q”). Now, she is producing her own one-person show as the result of an Artists 360 grant. (Courtesy Photo)
  

FAQ

‘Aint I A Woman

WHEN — 7 p.m. Aug. 10-11, 2 p.m. Aug. 12

WHERE — UA Global Campus Theater, 2 E. Center St. in Fayetteville

COST — $15-$25

INFO — eventbrite.com

I just returned from the Sheldon Swope Art Museum in Terre Haute, Indiana where I saw a wonderful small show titled, “Curious Vessels” by St. Louis’s own Melody Evans. She has received numerous awards in her career including first place in the National Visions in Clay. Her works which also include prints have been shown in numerous museums throughout the country. It’s well worth the short drive, but the small museum itself is a gem.

The Swope Museum collects, preserves and celebrates the best in American art with programs and exhibitions designed to engage, stimulate and educate those whose lives it touches. It enhances the culture and contributes to the economic development of the greater Wabash Valley.

The museum focuses on American regionalism and consists of works by Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Edward Hopper, Charles Burchfield and more modern works by Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder and Robert Motherwell.

During Covid, we started concentrating on road trips and realized that there are lots and lots of these small art museum gems. Here are just a few.

Across the river in Godfrey, Illinois the Lewis and Clark College has long been a hub for cultural activity in the Riverbend. The college hosts annual art exhibitions featuring students’ and faculty work, and has curated guest exhibits over the years for renowned artists such as Ed Paschke, Dale Threlkeld and Joe Emons. A few pieces from those shows remain permanent fixtures on the campus.

The Monticello Sculpture Gardens on the Lewis and Clark campus feature permanent sculptures by artists Peter Voulkos, Richard Hunt, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Joel Perlman, Ruth Duckworth and Stephen DeStaebler to name just a few. The works are featured within and around the incredible gardens. The Monticello Sculpture Gardens are a signature garden of the Missouri Botanical Garden. This is the Missouri Botanical Garden’s only signature garden out of the state.

And in Mt. Vernon, Illinois is the Mitchell Museum on the campus of the Cedarhurst Art Center which has made Mt. Vernon one of the most remarkable small towns in the United States. The collection was formed in the 1940s and 1950s by Eleanor and John R. Mitchell, a prosperous Mt. Vernon couple, who acquired major works by Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, John Singer Sargent, George Bellows, Robert Henri, William Glackens and others. These artists are now recognized as some of the most crucial figures in the development of American painting.

The most exceptional paintings in the permanent collection are by artists who trained in Europe in the late 19th and early 20th century but who remained deeply committed to the values and beliefs central to the American experience as they knew it.

And right across the Mississippi in Belleville, Illinois is the William and Florence Schimidt Center for the Arts on the campus of Southwestern Illinois College. The permanent collection at the center consists of over 900 works–sculptures, paintings, photographs, lithographs and more. Works by Salvdore Dali, Ansel Adams and Robert Motherwell are in this fantastic collection. There is also a very nice sculpture garden included in the center.

I recently went to see the works of Edo Rosenblith and Janie Stamm whose works were on view at the Schmidt.

Edo Rosenblith was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and has exhibited all over the world. He currently lives in St. Louis. Rosenblith is a compulsive draughtsman and works in various mediums including murals, prints, paintings, drawings and book arts. He implements a cartoon vernacular while reinventing personal and historical narratives.

Janie Stamm was born and raised on the edge of the Everglades in Broward County, Florida. She resides on the western banks of the Mississippi River in St. Louis. Her work focuses on preserving Florida’s environmental and queer history in the face of climate change. She uses a craft-based practice to tell these stories.

We recently went a little farther in to Indiana to Indianapolis and saw the unique Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art. This special museum has an extensive collection of visual arts by indigenous peoples of the Americas as well as Western American paintings and sculptures collected by businessman and philanthropist Harrison Eiteljorg (1903-1997). The museum houses one of the finest collections of Native contemporary art in the world.

In the museum are works by Charles Russell, Albert Bierstadt, Joseph Henry Sharp and Georgia O’Keefe, just to name a few. In 2005, the museum opened an extensive expansion that doubled the public space of the museum and includes works by Andy Warhol, T.C. Cannon, Kay Walkingstick and many more. In the expansion is also the Gund Gallery of Western Art. This gallery is dedicated to the 37-piece collection of traditional Western art donated to the museum by the George Gund Family.

Of course, one doesn’t have to leave St. Louis to see one of the many small art museums all over town, but that’s an entire topic in and of itself.

Nancy Kranzberg has been involved in the arts community for more than forty years on numerous arts related boards.

A Harrison Hot Springs souvenir shop is facing major backlash in the wake of a lawsuit alleging the theft of original Indigenous art.

Vancouver-based Indigenous art wholesaler Native Northwest has filed a lawsuit against Sasquatch Gifts and Souvenirs and Bruce and Fiona Fearon for allegedly copying, using and selling t-shirts featuring a design strikingly close to the work of Coast Salish artist Francis Horne, Sr.

During a trip to Harrison last year, Horne was “mortified” to find a t-shirt design nearly identical to his own featuring Sasquatch, sold at the store without his permission.

“As soon as we stepped in the door, lo and behold, there’s my design,” Horne said in a video posted on social media by Native Northwest. “I couldn’t eat after that. It literally made me sick to my stomach. You think ‘Why would they steal this? Why would they steal my design?’”

Horne said the incident and subsequent lawsuit sends a message to all west coast Indigenous artists.

“We need to stand up for ourselves,” he added.

Horne is well-known for his carving skills, having created four poles for the town of Duncan. He creates jewelry and apparel primarily featuring traditional Northern style.

In a statement posted on social media, Native Northwest said they tried “everything” for more than six months to get copies of Horne’s design off the shelves. As of Wednesday, July 26, the company has not received “a meaningful” response from the Fearons or Sasquatch Gifts and Souvenirs.

“Theft of Indigenous art is wrong and we won’t back down until it is stopped,” Native Northwest stated. “The Fearons and Sasquatch Gifts & Souvenirs have been served by the Federal Court and we are awaiting response.”

In the days following Native Northwest’s announcement, Sasquatch Gifts and Souvenirs experienced a string of 12 one-star reviews on Google, bringing their rating down to 1.5 stars on the search engine. All the reviews posted within a single week condemned the store based on the art theft allegations.

The Observer has reached out to the current business owners for comment and received no response as of press time. While the store features a number of items featuring First Nations designs, the Sasquatch shirt in question did not appear to be available as of Monday.

The Sasquatch – or “sasq’ets” in Halq’emeylem – has been an important part of First Nations culture since time immemorial and subsequently found renewed meaning in Harrison Hot Springs. Harrison sits on the traditional territory of the Sts’ailes people, on the site of the ancient village of Qwó:íls.

According to Sts’ailes tradition, sasq’ets, or “hairy man,” is the caretaker of their land and can shift shape and move between the physical and spiritual realms.

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August 04, 2023

SANTA FE—This week, the organization that hosts the Santa Fe Indian Market announced it is expanding its marquee Southwestern Association for Indian Art (SWAIA) program into a stand-alone fashion event. 

“Santa Fe Native Fashion Week by SWAIA Indigenous Fashion” will debut next spring in a four-day fashion event, May 2-5, 2024. 

The four-day event will feature a fashion symposia, a soirée, and runways that feature Indigenous fashion professionals from the United States and Canada. 

“Santa Fe Indian Market has always been about showcasing and making sure our artists have that same voice and that includes fashion,” said SWAIA Executive Director Jamie Schulze in an interview with Native News Online. “That is a really important voice to me because that’s representation and that’s something our cultures have struggled with and have been invisible for so many years.”

“It is important for us to come out as the creatives that we have always been historically, not only through our jewelry, our sculpture, and these amazing art pieces, but what we wore,” said Schulze who is Northern Cheyenne and Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate.

“It takes an entity like SWAIA to take the lead in creating an overdue runway that will now showcase and celebrate the first Designers of these lands, the Indigenous people,” said Norma Baker-Flying Horse, a Grammy Award-winning fashion designer from the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, to Native News Online. 

Since SWAIA launched its Indigenous Fashion Show in 2014, its shows have grown, from attendance of 150 to 9 separate fashion events planned at this year’s market weekend. It is now a highlight of the largest American Indian arts festival in the world, attracting dedicated Indigenous fashion designers from the United States and Canada. 

The organization is responding to growing success amongst Indigenous fashion designers, models, makeup artists, and producers. 

Jen Atchico, an enrolled Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma citizen and makeup artist living in the Seattle area, says that the announcement of SWAIA’s Santa Fe Native Fashion Week is huge for Native professionals in the industry. “I’m super excited for SWAIA’s Native Fashion Week,” she said in a comment to Native News Online. 

Cora Kay Chandler, a fashion designer from the Fort Belknap Indian Community and producer of the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development’s (NCAIED) Reservation Economic Summit’s fashion show, said she heard of SWAIA’s announcement online. 

“I am very glad for the artists that they are promoting as well as the up-and-coming ones,” Chandler told Native News Online. “It would be great to invite emerging artists because a lot of times we focus on mainstream artists that are definitely well known.”

Kelly Holmes, founder and editor of Native Max Magazine, said SWAIA’s announcement is good news for many in the industry. A long time fashion show producer, Holmes told Native News Online, “we need more events like this because they empower our growing Nation fashion community and market.” 

SWAIA launched a website in conjunction with its announcement at swaianativefashion.org as well as an Instagram page @swaianativefashion. More information will be announced at this year’s Santa Fe Indian Market, August 19-20, 2023 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

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Award-winning singer and song-writer Buffy Sainte-Marie (Piapot Cree Nation) is retiring from live performances. The retirement of the 82-year-old singer was announced Thursday evening through her publicist.

The announcement cited a combination of contributing factors including travel-induced health concerns and performance-inhibiting physical challenges that led to her decision to retire at this time from live performances.

“I have made the difficult decision to pull out of all scheduled performances in the foreseeable future. Arthritic hands and a recent shoulder injury have made it no longer possible to perform to my standards. Sincere regrets to all my fans and family, my band and the support teams that make it all possible,” Sainte-Marie said in a statement provided through her publicist.

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A Harrison Hot Springs souvenir shop is facing major backlash in the wake of a lawsuit alleging the theft of original Indigenous art.

Vancouver-based Indigenous art wholesaler Native Northwest has filed a lawsuit against Sasquatch Gifts and Souvenirs and Bruce and Fiona Fearon for allegedly copying, using and selling t-shirts featuring a design strikingly close to the work of Coast Salish artist Francis Horne, Sr.

During a trip to Harrison last year, Horne was “mortified” to find a t-shirt design nearly identical to his own featuring Sasquatch, sold at the store without his permission.

“As soon as we stepped in the door, lo and behold, there’s my design,” Horne said in a video posted on social media by Native Northwest. “I couldn’t eat after that. It literally made me sick to my stomach. You think ‘Why would they steal this? Why would they steal my design?’”

Horne said the incident and subsequent lawsuit sends a message to all west coast Indigenous artists.

“We need to stand up for ourselves,” he added.

Horne is well-known for his carving skills, having created four poles for the town of Duncan. He creates jewelry and apparel primarily featuring traditional Northern style.

In a statement posted on social media, Native Northwest said they tried “everything” for more than six months to get copies of Horne’s design off the shelves. As of Wednesday, July 26, the company has not received “a meaningful” response from the Fearons or Sasquatch Gifts and Souvenirs.

“Theft of Indigenous art is wrong and we won’t back down until it is stopped,” Native Northwest stated. “The Fearons and Sasquatch Gifts & Souvenirs have been served by the Federal Court and we are awaiting response.”

In the days following Native Northwest’s announcement, Sasquatch Gifts and Souvenirs experienced a string of 12 one-star reviews on Google, bringing their rating down to 1.5 stars on the search engine. All the reviews posted within a single week condemned the store based on the art theft allegations.

The Observer has reached out to the current business owners for comment and received no response as of press time. While the store features a number of items featuring First Nations designs, the Sasquatch shirt in question did not appear to be available as of Monday.

The Sasquatch – or “sasq’ets” in Halq’emeylem – has been an important part of First Nations culture since time immemorial and subsequently found renewed meaning in Harrison Hot Springs. Harrison sits on the traditional territory of the Sts’ailes people, on the site of the ancient village of Qwó:íls.

According to Sts’ailes tradition, sasq’ets, or “hairy man,” is the caretaker of their land and can shift shape and move between the physical and spiritual realms.

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Aug. 4, 2023

Watecha Bowl has opened a gift shop with traditionally made Lakota and other Sioux art.

Lawrence West, owner and founder of the Lakota street food restaurant at 2305 W. Madison St., said he started the gift shop as “an ode to Studio 1491,” his previous custom T-shirt business.

West said the new gift shop will sell Native print jackets, in-house made regalia, quill work and moccasins. 

“The main focus of starting this gift shop was to take the novelty off of the Native American trading post,” he said.

“I’m pretty particular about what items come into the gift shop. Up to this point, everything that you’ve seen (elsewhere) is not based off of our beliefs. We’re not technically represented properly because it’s not being done by a Lakota or a Sioux with our traditional beliefs and background.”

West, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, said many non-Native American people sell inauthentic art and make “a ton of money off of Native American culture.” 

His new gift shop will support local Native American artists. Two local vendors provide the soaps, candles and wax melts in the gift shop.

West said the quilled items, beadwork and moccasins are made in-house.

“That’s the difference in our gift shop compared to other gift shops. We bring that actual traditional aspect to it,” West said. “So when you come in and order a pair of moccasins, they are made traditionally and properly and in good taste.”

Currently, the gift shop features paintings from an Arizona artist, Terry Glad Flores, who depicts Native American celebrities in traditional paintings. 

“Waetcha Bowl is synonymous with quality,” West said. 

West said the restaurant also has a 12-piece charcoal series on handmade paper created by local charity artist Kurt Holdorf. The drawings are of Native American chiefs, medicine men and women leaders. 

“The thing that makes it unique is that the head busts used for these drawings were also used to make a Native American deck of cards that are an education piece,” West said. Watecha Bowl also sells these decks of cards in the gift shop.

From honey sticks to tumblers, “everything is handmade by a local artist and has a connection or does some sort of beneficial work for the Native American community.”

West said that as the gift shop expands, it will add traditional Lakota-made drums, regalia and more Native American items for personal and ceremonial use.

Backpack drive

With the back-to-school season approaching, West is offering guests one Indian taco in return for the donation of a backpack. Donations will be accepted through Aug. 21.  

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On one of MaryBeth Timothy’s birthdays in Muskogee County’s Greenleaf State Park a wild deer gingerly approached her face for a big wet affectionate lick. That’s when her husband John Timothy II knew it wasn’t just his wife who likes the many creatures that run free and wild, the loving feelings are mutual. The Timothy couple are Oklahoma artists. He’s Muscogee Creek and MaryBeth is Cherokee.

The art they make is dissimilar from each other. Timothy’s style is often tongue- in-cheek pop. Think a mixed media cartoon picture of Pink Panther in moccasins. MaryBeth is inspired by the natural world and its living inhabitants. It’s not typical for wild deer to come close to humans. They may pause 40 yards away and gaze at us out of curiosity then bound off in an instant. To get a kiss from one is unheard of.

“It doesn’t surprise me that MaryBeth does wildlife art, its means a lot to her and apparently she means a lot to wildlife. This is the gal that deer will walk up to. Birds will fly to her,” Timothy said. “It’s really quite something to see. She can spot animals far before I can. She’d be an awesome deer hunter and I’m sure she’s cleaned her share. She puts a lot of detail into her art and she’s very passionate about her techniques. She will paint every individual hair on a bear. Wildlife is part of who she is.”

That conjured the image of Walt Disney movie character Snow White and her menagerie of helpful domestic critters.

“If I could only get them to do my housework for me,” MaryBeth said with a chuckle. “I put out a lot of hummingbird feeders and when they go dry the hummingbirds come to the windows. As soon as I go walking out with more my nectar here they come. We’ve taken care of possums and all kinds of animals.”

Together the Timothy couple operate Moonhawk Art LLC (moonhawkart.com). Norman’s Tribes Gallery, 512 W. Main Street has their original work on hand. Timothy is an award winning artist. He was a resident artist at the Five Civilized Tribes Museum and Cultural Interpreter at Bacone College’s Ataloa Lodge Museum and Center for American Indians. For 18 years Timothy served at Bacone as the American Indian Arts and Crafts Coordinator. MaryBeth has shown work internationally. Her pictures have been selected for numerous magazine covers and she was a 2019 feature in Rogers State University TV’s Cherokee Artist Profile series. A new gig has been book illustration. She’s had dozens of pictures published in both adult and youth books since 2020. The prestigious HarperCollins publishing house is among her patrons. Cherokee author Traci Sorell (“The Way of the Anigiduwagi”) is credited with bringing MaryBeth to this new facet of her career after she requested a single book illustration from the artist three years ago.

Both MaryBeth and John have been creative since they were children. Friends and family recognized their talents early.

“I was born an artist and have an artist’s personality,” Timothy said. “That doesn’t always click well especially in western Oklahoma.”

MaryBeth’s family was musically inclined more than visual art.

“Mom plays piano and I grew up with a lot of singing in church,” she said.

The pair take advantage of their divergent talents and proclivities to bounce ideas off each other.

“I’ll be working on a children’s book and something just won’t look right,” MaryBeth said. “So I’ll take a picture of it and send it to John asking what he sees in it. What it needs or what I need to change. He’ll give his opinion on it. Most of the time I take it, sometimes I don’t. But it seems to work really well that way. I trust him and respect his artistic eye.”

Timothy is the kind of artist who must wait for the muse to appear. As he phrased it, you can’t put a quarter in and expect art to come out.

“Sometimes the muse is there and sometime not but I’m always waiting,” he said. “If you go to work eventually she shows up. That’s how I roll more or less, it’s part of my artist’s personality. Most of my life I thought I was just a weird kid who didn’t fit for various reasons. I was fortunate at the Five Tribes Museum because I could focus in an artistic environment.”

After a chance encounter with a museum visitor who sent him a book in part about creative “right brain” personalities, Timothy learned to forgive himself for being the way he is. It also helped when museums and galleries began hanging his work alongside that of other well-established artists.

The couple are “Enrolled Tribal Citizens,” registered artists with the Indian Arts and Crafts Board and members of the Southeast Indian Artists Association. “Made in Oklahoma” is proudly displayed at their website. How each arrived at this point culturally is quite different.

“John was raised with a lot of Native tradition and culture within his family and I wasn’t,” MaryBeth said. “My mom got married to my stepdad who was German and we moved to upstate New York, Illinois, Texas and finally back to Oklahoma. I really wasn’t around any of my tribal people until I was an adult. I felt like something was missing, like a hole that needs to be filled. One of those was becoming an artist and the other was being around Native people and artists. Then I felt like I could breathe. This is it, this is my family.”

MaryBeth and John Timothy II will be at Norman’s Tribes Gallery for its 2024 art calendar signing event Nov. 18 and 19.

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