Featured Artists
Andrea Day
Mvskoke
Andrea Day (Mvskoke Nation) is the artist behind A. Day’s Work and the creator of the self-developed medium, AcrybeadTM — a layered practice that integrates acrylic paint with meticulously hand-sewn seed beads on stretched canvas. Her works blends ancestral knowledge with an eye for contemporary life, shaped by a childhood in Oklahoma and over a decade of experimental performance, music, and movement in New York City. She brings the energy of both places into each piece — from wild flora and urban geometry to the unseen patterns that connect story, spirit, and space.
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Bradley Dry
Cherokee
Raised in the foothills of the Ozarks, Bradley James Dry was taught by his family the traditional foods of Appalachia in the Cherokee Nation. In his cooking expereience he has helped open some of Tulsa's best restaurants, worked with the University of Denver for their Native scholarship programs throughout the country, television production, he has also added artwork in different medias that channel Cherokee history and future.
Breana Hill, Sina Duta Winyan
“Red Blanket Woman”
Mvskoke (Creek) Nation/Ihanktonwan Dakota
Breana is an enrolled member of the Mvskoke (Creek) Nation, where she belongs to the Ecovlke (Deer Clan) and Ihanktonwan Dakota (Yankton) of the Oceti Ŝakowiŋ. She is a self taught artist who creates in a multitude of art mediums: beadwork, quillwork, moccasin making, leather work, painting, and drawing. She strives to highlight Indigenous people in past and present settings to pay homage to our resiliency throughout time. Breana is enmeshed within the cultural lifeways of her people and believes art expression is a vital instrument for preservation and empowerment.
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Brittany Bendabout
Cherokee/Otoe-Missouria
With a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Rogers State University, Brittany divides her time between freelance photography and film-related projects. An enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, her work explores the identification and cultural involvement of Native Americans in Oklahoma. The scope of Brittany’s work reflects the community and heritage that she feels deeply connected to as a contemporary artist residing on Muscogee-Creek territory of Oklahoma. Brittany’s influence spans multiple disciplines, with her work showcased by prestigious organizations such as NPR, the Associated Press, and Art Basel. Her reputation as an esteemed collaborator and advocate for Native and marginalized voices has made her a sought-after artist in the intersection of art, photography, and social justic
Brittany Morgan Hill, Maka Duta Win
(Red Earth Woman)
Mvskoke Nation/Ihanktonwan Dakota
Brittany Morgan Hill, Maka Duta Win (Red Earth Woman) is an enrolled member of the Mvskoke Nation (Ecovlke) and is also Ihanktonwan Dakota. Brittany was born and raised within the Mvskoke Reservation in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Growing up in an urban area, she has remained grounded in the cultural ways of her people. Her art has taken her many places and she has had the honor of displaying her work in numerous galleries and exhibits throughout the country. She is a self-taught artist, working in acrylic, pencil, graphic design, beadwork, ledger art and parfleche. Being influenced by her Dakota and Mvskoke heritage and culture, Brittany uses her art to highlight the beauty and strength of Indigenous women and familial bonds from pre-reservation life to present day.
Brittany Postoak
Mvskoke
Brittany Postoak (Mvskoke) is a multidisciplinary artist and enrolled citizen of the Mvskoke Nation whose work explores the intersections of ancestral memory, Indigenous futurism, and land-based storytelling. Raised on the Mvskoke Reservation in Indian Territory, her art includes beadwork, painting, and cartographic storytelling. Postoak has exhibited work at Sovereign Santa Fe, Ripple in Traditions, Survived By, and The Work of Sovereignty, among others. She is co-founder of Four Mothers Collective, a grassroots initiative supporting emerging Indigenous women and Two-Spirit artists. Currently pursuing a degree in Native American and Indigenous Studies at Fort Lewis College, her academic research supports her artistic practice and prepares the foundation for graduate study in Aotearoa.
Carly Treece
Mvskoke/Cherokee
Carly Treece (she/her) is a citizen of the Mvskoke Nation and of Cherokee ancestry. She is a multidisciplinary artist and curator residing on the Mvskoke Nation in Oklahoma. Working primarily in oil and cold wax, her abstract paintings explore emotional and spiritual relationships to land in Indian Territory, layering texture, mineral elements, and gesture to reflect memory, sovereignty, and place. Treece’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her artwork has appeared in FX’s Reservation Dogs, received recognition from the Indian Health Care Resource Center, and been included in major art markets and exhibitions across the country. In addition to her studio practice, Treece is the Founder and Creative Director of Four Mothers Collective, an Indigenous women-led arts organization based in Tulsa that amplifies the voices of Indigenous women and Two-Spirit artists through exhibitions, public programs, and community-centered initiatives. She has curated exhibitions in Tulsa and Santa Fe featuring both established and emerging Indigenous artists, with a focus on narrative sovereignty and cultural continuity. Treece also consults with universities and cultural institutions on Indigenous-led curatorial practices and community-centered exhibition models. She was recently appointed Mellon-funded Curator in Residence at 101 Archer Gallery for the project Democracy and Sovereignty in Indian Country.
Dana Bear
Afro-Indigenous/Osage Nation
F. Dana Bear is a multidisciplinary Afro-Indigenous artist whose work is grounded in Wahzhaze (Osage) lineage, material storytelling, and cultural continuity. An enrolled citizen of the Osage Nation from the Grayhorse District and the Buffalo Bull Face Clan, Bear carries German, Puerto Rican, and Black heritage and descends from a long line of Osage leaders, artists, and culture bearers. She is also the great niece of Marjorie and Maria Tallchief. Her practice engages adornment as a site of sovereignty, memory, and living culture, bridging traditional Osage aesthetics with contemporary forms. Bear is the founder of Tallchief Designs LLC, where she creates wearable art informed by ancestral knowledge, relational making, and Indigenous futurity. Her work draws on family histories, ceremonial continuity, and the embodied transmission of culture, positioning jewelry and adornment as both artistic expression and cultural responsibility. Through her broader creative practice under Tallchief & Co., Bear also engages herbalism, foodways, and birthwork as interconnected extensions of land-based knowledge and community care. In addition to her artistic practice, Bear serves as co-director of the Rural Oklahoma Birth & Wellness Initiative, advancing culturally rooted, community-led models of care for Indigenous families and communities of color. She is a member of the Center for Indigenous Resilience, Culture, and Maternal Health Equity (CIRCLE) Community Advisory Board, contributing community-informed perspectives to maternal health equity initiatives. Bear’s interdisciplinary work is shaped by both professional training and lived experience. She is trained as a full-spectrum doula and childbirth educator through the Birthing Advocacy Doula Training program, has trained with the Oklahoma Birth Equity Initiative, and is a certified Indigenous Lactation Counselor (ILC). She holds an Associate Degree in Native American Studies from Tulsa Community College. Across media and disciplines, Bear’s work centers ancestral memory, embodiment, and self-determination, particularly as they reside within Indigenous and Afro-Indigenous bodies. She currently lives in Oklahoma with her two children and remains actively engaged in Osage cultural life. Her work contributes to ongoing conversations around Indigenous sovereignty, care, and contemporary Native artistic practice.
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Dana Tiger
Mvskoke
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. Tiger is best known for her watercolors and acrylic paintings depicting the strength and determination of Native American Women. Tiger is an inductee into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame and is the founder of Legacy Cultural Learning Community, a nonprofit that nurtures creativity in young Native Americans.
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Haley Little Starr Gallegos
Osage Nation/ Comanche
Haley, 28 years old, is an enrolled member of the Osage Nation and of Comanche descent from her late mother’s family. Her Osage name is Wah-Zha-Zhi-Me-Tsa-He, which translates to “Osage Sacred Sun.” This is the first daughter’s name for the Deer clan within her tribe, a name she proudly shares with her grandmother Suzi. Haley is a mother of three (Greyson, Jaden, and Selena) living in Collinsville, Oklahoma with her husband Julien. They belong to the Zon-Zo-Zi district within their tribe. Haley's late mother, Mary Woosypiti, hailed from Fairfax, Oklahoma, and her father, Larry David Madden Jr., is from Pawhuska, Oklahoma. As a self taught artist, Haley specializes in acrylic landscape and portrait paintings on stretched canvases. Additionally, she creates intricate beadwork for powwow and dance regalia, as well as earrings. Her art is deeply influenced by her heritage and her commitment to preserving cultural traditions through artwork. In her free time, Haley cherishes dancing with her family at powwows, participating in ceremonial dances, reading, and spending quality time with her loved ones. It is essential to her to teach the next generation the importance of keeping their traditions and ways of life alive through song, dance, art, and various forms of self-expression.
Irene Creek
Muscogee (Creek) Nation
Irene Creek is a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and a beadwork artist creating both contemporary and traditional designs. She is known for her intricately beaded collars and ribbon skirts that honor Muscogee cultural teachings while embracing modern expression.
Jaime Misenheimer
Choctaw
Jaime Misenheimer (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator whose work varies in medium and style with a notable focus on elements of nature, references from her culture and experiences throughout the world. Whether she is painting a portrait of a tree or a woman, or expressing the memory of the movement of a lynx crossing a path silently at night, or young fish in a shallow tannin creek, she tells stories not just through imagery but gesture, shape, color and communication of the inarticulable through an intuitive sensitivity to inherent geometry, blending math to empathy. Misenheimer currently lives in the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. She maintains a private studio practice and is cofounder of Choctaw-owned Leon’s Art Center, which centers Indigenous arts. She holds an M.F.A from the Hoffberger School of Painting at MICA (2014) and two B.F.A’s from the University of South Carolina (2009). Throughout her career, she has taught at various locations and colleges, throughout the US and Europe and holds a Certificate in the College Teaching of Art from MICA. Initially moving from imaginative visual ideas in creative writing to creating her own stories through visual arts, Misenheimer has found rewarding connections with people and communities all over the world, working as a Visiting Associate Student Member twice at the American School of Classical Studies, Greece, and Program Assistant for multiple art programs in Italy and the United States. She continually participates in numerous group and solo shows and residencies, and her work is in private and institution collections in the United States and abroad.
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Jaylee Lowe
Seminole/Muscogee (Creek)
Jaylee Lowe is a proud member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and is also of Muscogee (Creek) heritage. She is a self taught Seminole patchwork artist who continues her family's legacy of Seminole patchwork by reviving older acestrial designs that were left to her by her late maternal grandmother. Through Jaylee’s prioritization of using remnants she has established a distinct style containing vivacious colors. From starting with traditional Seminole clothing to creating with a contemporary approach towards Seminole designs, she strives to create pieces that honor the storytelling ability that is inherent to Seminole patchwork.
Jessi Sands
Mvskoke, Cherokee, Choctaw, and Taino
Jessi Sands is a queer Mvskoke, Cherokee, Choctaw, and Taino multidisciplinary artist. They use mediums such as painting, ceramics, print making, and mixed media to explore how the intersectionality of their multiracial identity and relationship with nature influences their roles as an Indigenous parent, queer person, and land steward. Jessi grew up in Oklahoma on the Cherokee reservation and lives on their Mvskoke reservation in Tulsa, Oklahoma. They received their Associates of Arts Degree from Tulsa Community College. They received their Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Studio Art with primary focuses in Ceramics and Oil Painting with minors in American Indian Studies, Pre-Art Therapy, and Art History from Oklahoma State University. Currently, Jessi is Ecotherapy certified and working towards receiving their MA in Art Therapy/Counseling with Trauma-focused and Human Sexuality certifications from Southwestern College and New Earth Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Jessi was a part of, Bright City: Cultural Confluence, a year-long public art exhibition with seven other Indigenous artists from Oklahoma displayed in Macon, Georgia. Worked with The Four Mothers Collective to co-curate From the Heart: Expressions of Indigenous Joy exhibition. Jessi continues their studio practice and looks forward to cultivating spaces for healing and reconnecting to the land with tribal communities as an Art Therapist.
Jessie Haase
Cherokee
Jessie Haase is a citizen of Cherokee Nation, a multidisciplinary artist, activist, MMIR advocate and Poet. She is based out of Bartlesville, OK. Much of her work is inspired by her Cherokee family roots, her grief journey and her MMIR work. ‘Jessie Haase (Tsa La Gi- Cherokee) Northeast Oklahoma, Writer & Creative. Currently, focusing on a Poetic, Photo Series with Mia Knight (Yt Girl Mia, A Daughter that way) also, From the NEO. Photographer & Videographer. Collaborating since 2021 And sharing Worx in Shows and Shoots Locally, in Tulsa and Across many miles This series of Memories and Words begins here in Oklahoma where All Roads lead Home…eventually. We have been capturing Times, Places and Memories That someday, may not Remain except in Photographs & Poetry.’
Kalyn Fay Barnoski
Cherokee/Mvskoke
Kalyn Fay Barnoski (b. 1990, Cherokee Nation enrollee, Muscogee Creek descent) is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, curator, and educator from Oklahoma. Centering Indigenous and decolonial methodologies, their work focuses on self-location, community-building, collaboration, and empathy through the use of music, publication, storytelling, and contemporary craft. In every endeavor, they see their practice as a way to find the ways in which we all intersect and to build bridges of understanding between. Their practice is “for you, for me, for us, for we.” Kalyn Fay Barnoski holds an M.F.A. from University of Arkansas (2021), an M.A. from The University of Tulsa (2016), and a B.F.A. from Rogers State University (2012). Kalyn has worked with Peabody Essex Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, Gilcrease Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The Momentary, Eiteljorg Museum, along with others, and performed, exhibited, and facilitated workshops both nationally and internationally.
Loren Waters
Cherokee/Kiowa
Loren Waters (Cherokee/Kiowa) is an award-winning filmmaker and founder of Waters Media, where her work spans directing, producing, and casting. She has been recognized on prestigious lists, including Forbes 30 Under 30 and Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces, and she currently serves as the Executive Director of the Lindy Waters III Foundation, where she is dedicated to serving Native youth and Indigenous communities. Her work has been showcased at esteemed festivals such as Sundance, SXSW, and Hot Docs. Her Academy Award-qualifying short documentary film, Tiger, received the Short Film Special Jury Award for Directing at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. She has contributed to renowned films and television series, including The Lowdown, Reservation Dogs, and Fancy Dance. She is a 2026–2028 Tulsa Artist Fellow.
Okcate Evita Smith McCommas
Mvskoke
Okcate is the Mvskoke word for scarlet. Though it was chosen as her name from a Creek Dictionary before she was born, Okcate entered this world at dawn in Aurora, Colorado, wailing like a fire engine, brick red, and sporting ginger hair. The name fit! To this day, she strives to be as bold as her name. Her art reflects her lived experiences through vivid chroma, distinct shapes, various textures, and evocative poetry and music. A lifelong multi-media artist, Citizen of the Mvskoke Nation with Purépecha, Scottish, and Eastern Band Cherokee ancestry, Okcate approaches art as a powerful tool of expression and an agent of change. Through her work, she addresses intergenerational trauma and celebrates the sacred relationship between Body and Land. She grew up in the Ancestral Homelands of the Mvskoke in Georgia. Her respect and appreciation for nature grew from daily exposure to the power of the ocean and the delicate balance of the marshland ecosystems. She learned firsthand that respecting and protecting the balance of Mother Earth is essential for the health and survival of all beings. Though her family was impoverished, she was lucky to have access to the local community’s flourishing public arts and education programs. However, there were no other Native people in her community to engage with, outside of her immediate family. Tribal knowledge was passed down to her through her parents. She relocated to Tvlse in 2005, where she has worked hard to connect with her Tribe and honor the intentional, sacred ways of her ancestors through community and land-based work. Okcate approaches each project with the utmost thought and care, and each piece is brought from idea to fruition with throughlines and backstories for the shapes, content, colors, and medium. She is influenced by a great deal of loss and survivalism, and she uses that pain to bring awareness, thoughtfulness, imagination, and positivity into the world.
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Raychelle BESH Shabi
Navajo
Raychelle is a Navajo beadwork artist, creating with her hands what her ancestors carried in their stories. Each bead is placed with intention, guided by patience, balance, and the teachings of her people. Her work reflects the land, the colors of dawn and dusk, and the strength of Navajo people who came before her.
Rykelle Kemp
Mvskoke Creek-Euchee/ Choctaw/ Diné
Rykelle’s works of art is a representation of the knowledge she has attained of her Southwestern & Southeastern heritage, which she combines in each piece that she creates. She started her art career learning under her father (Renowned Native Painter/Printmaker Randy Kemp) as a printmaker from the age of 12. She now works out of her home studio where she produces her one of a kind mono-silk screen prints, mix-medium artworks and Jewelry. Rykelle started her own business: ‘Ahlazua-Indigenous Woman Made’ in 2018, which focuses on affordable Jewelry collections, Accessories & Graphic Design. Ahlazua is her traditional Euchee name given to her by her late Grandmother Josephine, also her business’ namesake. It felt important and powerful to incorporate her Euchee name within her Business, because it honors Matrilineal Inheritance: knowledge & Name. She also a one-of a kind jewelry collection available at the many art markets and galleries she attends across the country through out the year. Kemp found her creative passion for jewelry making and design 5-6 years ago. After taking a basic class at a local arts school in phoenix, she worked tirelessly at cultivating and growing her own techniques in silversmithing. She has created a unique style that incorporates her tribal heritage. She works with Natural Materials that she has found in her Tribes while studying and researching traditional methods and Materials. From the South East she incorporates Shells, Pearls, and shell carving/cutting & applies that to Techniques and Materials from her Diné Tribe in the South West such as Tufa Casting, Turquoise and Sweat Soldering. With her Goal to combine and use as many Traditional Techniques and Materials from all her tribes, she has developed a distinct Design Style. This unique style has garnered a following of collectors for her one of a kind pieces with-in recent years. Her works have been featured in publications such as: The Huffington Posts: “23 Indigenous Fashion Brands: Clothing, Jewelry & Accessories”, The Native American Art Magazine and other publications across the country. She has also been featured in art markets such as: Santa Fe Indian Art Market (NM), We Are The Seeds (NM), Autry Museum of the South West (CA), Heard Museum (AZ), Eiteljorg Museum (IN), etc. In recent years Rykelle has dedicated time to demonstrate her process of jewelry making, she does this throughout the community, art markets and in different museums regionally. Kemp feels it is very important to educate and open a platform to talk with people about the meaning behind the designs and images her people have used for hundreds of years. Devoting time to the youth in her community, showing kids how important expression is through art.
Shelley Patrick
Mvskoke
Shelley Patrick, Mvskoke, is a visual artist whose work includes using Southeastern Indigenous designs that reflect her cultural heritage. She creates works in mixed media, paintings and sculpture, fashion design, installation and mural art, and graphic design. Shelley has participated in numerous juried and gallery shows as well as several art markets in Oklahoma and New Mexico locations. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual Communications from Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, OK, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Institute of American Indians Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, NM. Shelley is the Gallery Tech at Mvskoke Waters Gallery in Jenks, OK and the current Treasurer of the Southeastern Indian Artist’s Association (SEIAA). She works as a professional artist, freelance art writer, and as a presenter/promoter of Southeastern Indigenous arts in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area and beyond.
Christie Tiger
Muscogee
Bio coming soon!
Carmen Wiley
Mvskoke
Bio coming soon!
Dianna Beaver
Mvskoke
Bio Coming soon!