rr-shapes

By: Rhiannon Skye Tafoya

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Completed

2024

Medium

Colorplan Paper Woven with Screen-printed Paper (framed)

Dimensions

20" x 17" (framed)

Description

My dad and I used to gather red willow and weave willow baskets during the Winter, and some of my earliest memories of my maternal Grandmother were watching her naturally dye and weave baskets out of honeysuckle vines, and white oak. I have my art practice because of these loving memories.

I am fascinated and intrigued with the knowledge, the effort and the caretaking involved in basketmaking and within the weaving process. I think it resembles variations of the processes within bookmaking and printmaking, which is why I continuously choose to work in these mediums. I notice and appreciate how each step informs the next and that thinking backwards is essential to understanding the outcome. In each medium, problem- solving is inevitable and beautiful mistakes appear out of a well thought out project.

About this Artist

Rhiannon Skye Tafoya

Rhiannon Skye Tafoya (b. 1989) is an interdisciplinary artist from the Eastern Band of Cherokee and the Santa Clara Pueblo Tribes. She earned a BFA in printmaking from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM., and an MFA in print media from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR. She published her first artist book, Ul’nigid’in 2020, and has exhibited work nationally and abroad in numerous group and solo exhibitions. She has held many artist-in-residency positions at notable institutions such as Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts (Pendleton, OR) and Kala Art Institute (Berkeley, CA) and University of Iowa Center for the Book (Iowa City, IA.) Her work is housed in many special collections, including the US Library of Congress, Kohler Art Library, the Bainbridge Museum of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Museum of the Cherokee People. She currently lives and works…

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