Native american performance artist karen

Karen Sixkiller is a contemporary Cherokee sculptor and Washington native residing on the Olympic Peninsula and walking in two or more? Studying social psychology in graduate school taught her the discipline of scientific research, which she applies to cultural research and Native social justice issues to inform her art.

Her formal education in public health and elementary education brought her to New Mexico and the Indian Health Service, where she worked with all 23 sovereign nations and with children from each community at a Native-owned residential tribal school.

Native american performance artist karen

These experiences and influences have coalesced in her passion for teaching new perspectives through art. She is currently working on a monumental bronze and steel sculpture to be installed in the Cherokee Nation capital city of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, in August Sixteen pawns eight Native children from various North American tribes and eight backpack-wearing schoolchildren and four schoolhouse-shaped rooks represent the discovery of Indian boarding-school burial sites and modern-day school shootings.