Rhiannon Skye Tafoya

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Rhiannon Skye Tafoya
Born1989 (1989)
Nationality Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, American
Other namesRhiannon Skye Tafoya
Alma mater Institute of American Indian Arts (BFA), Pacific Northwest College of Art (MFA)
Known forvisual arts
Website skyetafoya.com

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]

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Background

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

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

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

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

Her work is in several public collections. These include:

References

  1. ↑ "Rhiannon Skye Tafoya -Ul'nigid'". Focus on Book Arts. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "rhiannon skye tafoya: digegv (where i'm from)". Hecho a Mano. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
  3. ↑ "Rhiannon Skye Tafoya". Chautauqua Visual Arts. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
  4. ↑ "Rhiannon Skye Tafoya". Women's Studio Workshop. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
  5. ↑ "Indigenous Women's Atelier". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
  6. ↑ ""A Living Language: Cherokee Syllabary & Contemporary Art" — at the Cherokee Museum Until 3/14". Cherokee, NC. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
  7. ↑ "A Living Language". Asheville Art Museum. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
  8. ↑ "ul'nigid'". ASU Library. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
  9. ↑ "Ul'nigid' / Rhiannon Skye Tafoya". Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
  10. ↑ "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.
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