Inspiration, History, and the Importance of Art Education – Lisa Rutherford
On this episode of Beyond the Art, we meet with Cherokee Nation citizen Lisa Rutherford. Lisa balances her creative time between clay arts and textile arts, including pottery, sculpture, eighteenth-century clothing,...
Bridging Old Ways with a New View – Amber DuBoise Shepard
On this episode of Beyond the Art, we meetwith Navajo Nation citizen Amber Dubois Shepherd. Ambers gives us an insight on how she grew up in a home immersed with the different Native American tribal cultures and...
Challenging the boundaries – George Alexander
On this episode of Beyond the Art, we meet with George Alexander a Muscogee Creek artist, hailing from Oklahoma, who has always felt inspired by his Native heritage. He seeks to push the boundaries of what is...
Curating Native American experience – Julie O’Keefe
On this episode of Beyond the Art, we meet with Julie O'Keefe a citizen of the Osage Nation and a curator and product designer. She is currently working on a large project for the Muskogee Creek Nation, which involves...
Interwoven Cultural Traditions – Kelly Church
On this episode of Beyond the Art, we meet with fifth-generation basket maker, Kelly Church. Kelly is a member of the Gun Lake Band in Michigan and a Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Ojibwe descendent. In this...
Fusion of Culture and Legacy – Bryan Waytula
We meet with Bryan Waytula and how he expresses his culture through various art forms such as pop, portrait and pointillism. He comes from a family that is filled with Cherokee artists who have passed on cultural...
Beading Together – Past, and Future
We meet Karen Ann from her studio in rural central Wisconsin. Karen Ann is a Haudenosaunee raised beadwork artist and citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. Raised beadwork is a rare and elegant style whose forms...
The Stories that Carry Us – America Meredith
Check out our episode with America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) is the publishing editor of First American Art Magazine and an art writer, critic, visual artist, and independent curator, whose curatorial practice spans...







