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Would you believe us if we told you this intricate design is a painting? In “She Gives (Quiet Strength V)” (2019), artist Dyani White Hawk of Sičangu Lakota ancestry uses acrylic on canvas to honor the continuing practice of Lakota quillwork, a form of embroidery created from the weaving of porcupine quills into beautiful designs. She also references abstract hide painting with the inclusion of copper, black, and white diamonds. The artist utilizes these art forms traditionally practiced by women to combine Indigenous artistry and visual heritage with modernist painting and abstraction. Find this piece in “Space Makers: Indigenous Expression and a New American Art,” a focus exhibition found in our Early American galleries: https://bit.ly/3xiNzIV 🎨 Dyani White Hawk, She Gives (Quiet Strength V), 2019, acrylic on canvas, 60 in. x 48 in. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2020.4. Photography by Edward C. Robison III.

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Stevie Petet

Designer, Illustrator, and 3D Artist

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This painting is a lot cooler in person!! the copper parts are actually a really cool metallic paint, and with the other patterns it really plays with your eyes. Also It's really big, like 6 feet atleast!

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Marcus Crutchfield

CAD Design Technician | BIM Designer

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