Rhiannon Skye Tafoya
Rhiannon Skye Tafoya | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1989 |
| Nationality | Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, American |
| Other names | Rhiannon Skye Tafoya |
| Alma mater | Institute of American Indian Arts (BFA), Pacific Northwest College of Art (MFA) |
| Known for | visual arts |
| Website | skyetafoya |
Rhiannon Skye Tafoya (born 1989)[1] is a Native American printmaker known for her serigraphy, woven paper, and artist's books. She lives in Cherokee, North Carolina.[2]
Background
[edit]Rhiannon Skye Tafoya was born in 1989. She is a citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and a descendant of Santa Clara Pueblo. Relatives on both sides of her family were basket weavers.[2]
Education
[edit]Tafoya earned her BFA degree at Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and her MFA at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon.[3][2]
Art career
[edit]In 2019, she had an artist's residency at the Women's Studio Workshop.[4]
In 2022 Self Help Graphics & Art produced a serigraph entitled Relatives.[5]
Exhibitions
[edit]In 2021, her work was included in the exhibition A Living Language: Cherokee Syllabary and Contemporary Art at the Museum of the Cherokee People[6] and the Asheville Art Museum.[7] She has also exhibited at Hecho a Mano in Santa Fe, 516 Arts in Albuquerque, the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, and the International Print Center in New York.[2]
Collections
[edit]Her work is in several public collections. These include:
- Bainbridge Island Museum of Art,[2] Bainbridge Island, Washington
- Charles Trumbull Hayden Library[8]
- Kohler Art Library,[2] University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Metropolitan Museum of Art,[9] New York
- National Museum of Women in the Arts,[10] Washington, DC
- U.S. Library of Congress,[2] Washington, DC
References
[edit]- ^ "Rhiannon Skye Tafoya -Ul'nigid'". Focus on Book Arts. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f g "rhiannon skye tafoya: digegv (where i'm from)". Hecho a Mano. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
- ^ "Rhiannon Skye Tafoya". Chautauqua Visual Arts. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
- ^ "Rhiannon Skye Tafoya". Women's Studio Workshop. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
- ^ "Indigenous Women's Atelier". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
- ^ ""A Living Language: Cherokee Syllabary & Contemporary Art" — at the Cherokee Museum Until 3/14". Cherokee, NC. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
- ^ "A Living Language". Asheville Art Museum. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
- ^ "ul'nigid'". ASU Library. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
- ^ "Ul'nigid' / Rhiannon Skye Tafoya". Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
- ^ "A Radical Alteration: Women's Studio Workshop as a Sustainable Model for Art Making | Exhibition". National Museum of Women in the Arts. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
External links
[edit]- Rhiannon Skye Tafoya: Digegv (Where I'm From) images at Hecho a Mano
- Episode #128: Rhiannon Skye Tafoya podcast interview Helen Hiebert Studio
| International | |
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| National | |
- 1989 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American women artists
- American book artists
- Eastern Band Cherokee people
- Institute of American Indian Arts alumni
- Native American printmakers
- Native American women artists
- Pacific Northwest College of Art alumni
- Santa Clara Pueblo people
- People from Cherokee, North Carolina