#indiginous artist

[psykisika]

Wawa

[smol-ish-rose]

Feature artist Friday!!

Hi guys! As an art student who spends a lot of my free time looking for interesting contemporary artists to study, I thought I could create a little series on some minority artists whose work I personally find absolutely amazing, to hopefully share their art with a wider range of people, since appreciating indie/contemporary minority artists is something that is extremely important and not particularly accessible to the general public.

This is especially important to me as a minority (lqbtq+, disabled/chronically ill, afab, neurodiverse) artist myself. My goal in making these artists and their work more accessible to everyone may include explaining things that many people already know, including art terminology that many artist will be familiar with but not the general public, and explaining the artists minority backgrounds in detail as I feel as though a major step in minority inclusion stems from wider-spread understanding. I am white British and obviously not a member of every minority that I will be covering so if I get things wrong, especially in regards to ethnicity, please feel free to correct me and edits will be made to the post. 

Our first artist is, drumroll please…

CRYSTAL WORL

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We’re focusing on Alaska and its native populations today with Crystal Kaakeeyáa Rose Demientieff Worl (She/her), who is an absolutely amazing multimedia, multidisciplinary artist. She also shares part of her name (Rose) with me! (this isn’t important I just find it cool). 

She is Deg Hit’an Athabascan from Fairbanks Alaska and Tlingit from Raven moiety, Sockeye Clan, from the Raven House, (Groups of native Alaskan people) as well as Filipino (People from the Philippines).

-Check out Crystal’s page on the First Peoples Fund here and find out ways to give here

-Find out more about Athabascan people here and here (wikipedia page here)

-Find out more about Deg Xinag, the extremely (like very extremely omg) endangered native language of the Deg Hit’an people here and here (wikipedia page here)

-Find out more about Tlingit people here (wikipedia page here)

-Find out more about Philippine history here (wikipedia page here)

Her work centres strongly on her ethnic background, as she recreates and modernises her clan's stories, as well as focusing on relationships and bonds between her people, the land, and the animals. One of her aims is to  bring attention to Indigenous issues relevant to Alaska, such as protecting the environment and wildlife in Alaska.

Now this woman is absolutely amazing. I have never seen anyone who employs such a range of multimedia (different types of art) techniques the way she does. She does things like graphic design (a type of art that’s about communicating things and transmitting messages), printmaking (which is- like stamping designs you make from  a rubber stamp to something like fabric or wood) , and painting. Those are pretty common forms of visual art, but that's not all she does! She also does less typical forms of art! Beading (art created using beads), stuff in fashion design and also traditional skin sewing (which is all about sewing animal skins into clothing (source)) She also makes jewellery and does some awesome things with glass.

She’s painted some pretty weird (and massive) things, like a basketball court in Sitka (a part of Alaska), a mural that’s 125 feet by 48 feet in Anchorage (Alaska's largest city) and some resin panels which were installed as guard rails in the newly renovated Juneau (Alaska’s capital city) International Airport. Some other strange and cool things she's designed art for include an ambulance, and an entire plane!  

She also has some art that you can use as your Google Chrome background!

Here is a link to her website, and you can shop her work here. You can learn more about and find out ways to donate/support Alaskan native people here.

[ssavaart]

Day 14 of my Hair Journal was painting during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (AAPI).

I reached out to Professor Wayne Quilliam who specialized in photography of Aboriginal people (who works with the Aboriginal people and gets permission to photograph them) and he gave me permission to reference his photography for my portrait.

https://aboriginal.photography/

For the background, I referenced the traditional Aboriginal Dot Painting.

I always find it so interesting to paint people from all over the world. Though I bet traveling and doing it in person would be far more interesting than from my little Hobbit Hole.

Still... I really enjoyed it.

[newblvotg]

[walterdoodles]

Today is Red dress day. Remember and Honour all of the Native Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two spirits that have gone missing and have been murdered. Most of these cases are never heard in the public and they are sadly forgotten. Today I want to spread awareness for all Indigenous people, I want to share my culture and help others understand the importance of sharing stories from these victims.

I will be donating as well on this day to several sites that support native women and girls. And also a few sites that want to protect ICWA. I suggest you do the same but if you are not financially able to then spread awareness respectfully.🧡🧡

(I’m doing Donation commission 50% of the profits go to NICWA! this post-> https://www.tumblr.com/walterdoodles/719214714265255936/im-opening-up-some-donation-commissions-if-you )

No more stolen sisters

[milocelium]

painting by Milo Nikolas - 2023

[genekies]

Heya, I'm Gene. I'm a queer, indigenous, trans dude who's had an 8 year obsession with FNAF and SPN that's still going strong!

I post/reblog alot about Gabriel from Supernatural

art tag is #gene draws ☆

[animeaipdf]

[robinwose]

heyo, I've finally had a commission sheet kinda thing whipped up with newer, i need to pay bills, prices!

PLEASE READ/REBLOG

Payment through Paypal or Ko-fi

Spots will be open until I feel the need to close them (I will let it be known if that happens)

Payment will be needed upfront once order has been confirmed ( I will not start work on it until payment comes through)

Once it goes through there the commission cannot be cancelled, no refunds.

Commissions are for personal use only, no commercial/business use.

with styles beyond the sketch large revisions must be done before moving past sketch.

if interested please dm me here, or email me at RobinwoseArt@gmail.com

I'll do OCs, Fanart, gore, and light NSFW. No full NSFW or mecha

All these prices are a baseline and could potentially go based on the complexity of the drawing.

There's three "styles" I can do, one is a more sketch rough kinda of style that can be either just the sketch (~$15) or colored (~$20).

A chibi style (~$10). A more clean style, also fully rendered (~$25) or just the lines (~$20).

Along with that I have a mix of sketch and clean that is ~$20. Any style can have more than one character with $5 for each additional character.

When you email/message please include:

The style you're wanting.

commission details, the more there is at the start the better. this includes things like; character details/references, poses/expressions, background/background color, etc.

[redvelvetlining]

'When will it be enough suffering' by HS, '23

[psykisika]

Some sketches of the outfit design for the rehability/psychiatric clinic Ed enrolls in to infiltrate the facility in my graphic novel.

[gavioli-art]

Mulher Indígena Aimoré 1875

Brazil

Grafite sobre papel

[thunderkingnam]

More of Captain Sanda for the #SEIREITEIPROJECT community world building project I'm heading!

[masgwi]

The great white weigh (1910)

Will Crawford (American, 1869–1944)

Masterful ink artist. Career began working for the Newark newspaper "Call"; he went on to draw for magazines where he proved his excellence in humor as well as a capability for dramatic action. Illustrated for Life, Redbook, Century, Everybody's Magazine, Puck, Collier's, McClure's, Scribner's, Leslie's. Contributed to a number of books, often with a historical or Western theme (he was a friend of Charles Russell who admired Crawfords line work), among them: Paul Bunyan and His Blue Ox, The Romance of Rosy Ridge, Pigs is Pigs, The Opening of the West, History of America, The Story of Colorado, The Great American Pie Company, Skunny Wundy and Other Indian Tales, Woven with the Ship.

[paleonativeart]

Day 15: Lightning

A Navajo man is praying at dusk for family safety and won’t be long until lightning storm arrives.

[walterdoodles]

I've been connecting with my family and I found out I am Coahuiltecan! As a reconnecting native person this is amazing and important for me!

I want to learn more about my culture and heritage so if you are seeing this and are from the same nation, I would love it if you messaged me! Thank you for reading this y'all