Linda Lomahaftewa
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Linda Lomahaftewa, ( b. July 3, 1947, Phoenix, AZ) Hopi/Choctaw has received numerous awards for excellence in painting and printmaking. n 1962 she attended the newly developed fine arts high school program for Native students, the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. After graduation in 1965, she attended the San Francisco Art Institute where she earned her B.F.A. (1971) and M,F.A. (1971) degrees in painting.
Lomahaftewa is an influential teacher and arts educator. She first taught at the San Francisco Art Institute as a teaching assistant (1971-1975). Since then ahe has held positions as Assistant Professor of Native American Art at California State College, Sonoma, and at the University of California, Berkeley, Native American Studies Department. She accepted the position of Professor of Painting and Drawing at the Institute of American Indian Arts in 1976 where she continues to teach and practice her art.
Her works are included in more than ten significant public collections, including the American Indian Historical Society, San Francisco, the Center for Arts of Indian America, Washington, D. C., University of Lethbridge, Native Studies Department, Alberta, Canada and the City of Phoenix, Native American Art Collection.
[edit] Books
Indian Painters of the Southwest: The Deep Remembering, Katherine L. Chase, SAR Press.
I Stand in the Center of the Good, Interviews with Contemporary Native American Artists, Lawrence Abbott (Editor), University of Nebraska Press.
[edit] See Also
Linda's piece in the Indian Humor exhibit
Summer Harvest at Posters of Santa Fe
Print at the Brandywind Workshop
Linda Lomahaftewa painting in the WAS Fine Art 310 - Women Artists website
