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Artist: Jennifer J. Jordan
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Jennifer J. Jordan, PH.D., is an enrolled member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. Jennifer ‘s father, Jim Jordan, and her great-aunt, the late Josephine Oudenhoven, taught her to bead at the age of 18 as she needed to bead her regalia for the Miss Oneida pageant. Throughout the years Jennifer learned and perfected various bead work techniques including flat work, loom work, and raised beadwork. She has taught several beginning bead work classes and feels it is important to keep the art form alive so it can be enjoyed for the next seven generations.
Jennifer feels very fortunate to have learned various bead work techniques under the tutelage of Carol “Coke” Smith and Betty Willems. She finds inspiration in looking at nature as nature has so many color and texture gradients, plus nothing is perfect in nature and neither are we.
Jennifer feels very fortunate to have learned various bead work techniques under the tutelage of Carol “Coke” Smith and Betty Willems. She finds inspiration in looking at nature as nature has so many color and texture gradients, plus nothing is perfect in nature and neither are we.
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Cynthia is an Oneida Artist who grew up on the Oneida Reservation in Wisconsin and attended Oneida Nation Elementary School until 8th grade. Currently she is the Elementary Art Teacher at Oneida Nation Turtle School. She has been teaching Art since 2003. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Art at the University of WI-Green Ba, and her Master’s degree in Secondary Education at Cameron University.
Although Cynthia teaches how to make corn husk dolls in her classroom, her first passion is creating art with clay, and creating traditional sculptural art. Her art is inspired by the Oneida culture, traditions and her family. Cynthia has garnered ribbons on her traditional pottery and clay sculptures at the Woodland Indian Art Show and Market.
Although Cynthia teaches how to make corn husk dolls in her classroom, her first passion is creating art with clay, and creating traditional sculptural art. Her art is inspired by the Oneida culture, traditions and her family. Cynthia has garnered ribbons on her traditional pottery and clay sculptures at the Woodland Indian Art Show and Market.
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Artist: Dawn Dark Mountain (Oneida)
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An Oneida Indian artist from Wisconsin specializing in watercolors, Dawn works with Woodland American Indian subject matter and ideas. This subject matter combined with a very controlled watercolor style (often mistaken for airbrush) results in a peculiar mystical quality sometimes referred to as “magic realism”. Dawn is Turtle clan and she puts a turtle in every painting, sometimes very small, sometimes very obvious, but always present.
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