Sakiestewa

Place: American Southwest

Biography:

Ramona Sakiestewa is a contemporary Hopi Native American artist who lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is renowned for her tapestries, works on paper, public art, and architectural installations. Sakiestewa grew up in the American Southwest where the land and sky informed her artwork. She has written and lectured about Native American weaving and contemporary art, and her studio has woven the works of other contemporary artists. Her own weavings reside in numerous corporate, private, and museum collections. Recently, she has changed media and is exploring constructed works-on-paper, print work, and painting. She has shown her work nationally in numerous group and solo exhibitions. Sakiestewa has also worked with a series of nationally known architects designing elements for buildings and theming interiors. She has worked in a variety of media including stone, metal, carpet, and glass. Some of her work can be seen at the Tempe Performing Arts Center, Tempe AZ, Marriott Hotels in California and Washington DC, and the National Museum of the American Indian, Mall Museum, Washington, DC. Travel continues to inspire Sakiestewa’s artistic work. She has lived and worked in New York City, Mexico City, Peru, Japan, China, Italy, and most recently, northern Iraq. She has been a participating artist in the Friends of Art and Preservation in Embassies in 2001. In 2006, Ramona was awarded the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts and was inducted into the New Mexico Women’s Hall of Fame. In 2007, the New Mexico Committee, of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, honored her.