Nationality
Seminole, Cherokee - Muscogee Creek Nation
Preview
Date of Work
1992
Medium
Edition #
80 of 100
Signature
Lower right
Height
24"
Width
17 1/2"
Collection/Provenance
Art & Design Study Collection, Signed Limited Edition
Indians into Medicine
Status
Stored: FF_007_A
Location
UND Art Collections Repository
Artist Bio
Dana Tiger is an award winning, internationally acclaimed artist. She is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and is of Seminole and Cherokee descent. Dana was just five years old when her father, legendary artist Jerome Tiger, passed away.
She turned to his art as a way to know him and that engagement,
coupled with the tutelage of her uncle, renowned painter Johnny Tiger Jr.,
exposed Dana both to the richness of her culture and to the bounty of her
family’s artistic tradition.
Best known for her watercolors and acrylic paintings depicting the strength and determination of Native American women, Dana’s paintings now hang in galleries, universities, Native American institutions and state buildings nationwide.
In recognition of her accomplishments Dana was inducted into the Oklahoma Women’s Hall of Fame in 2001.
In 2002 Dana and her family founded Legacy Cultural Learning Community, a nonprofit with the mission of nurturing creativity within Native youth via the celebration and sharing of tribal languages and culture through the arts.
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