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Dawn Dark Mountain ~ Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin
American Woodland Indian Watercolors and Block Prints

ABOUT DAWN
An interest in art since childhood led Dawn to study at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and at the University of Arizona in Tucson where her emphasis was on watercolor.  She graduated from the U of A with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and has taught art to both elementary and pre-school children.

Dawn is a member of the Indian Arts and Crafts Association and a board member of the Oneida Nation Arts Program.  She is also a member of the Madison Art Guild and a board member and past president of the Wisconsin Alliance of Artists and Craftspeople.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Among the awards and honors Dawn has received are:


At the SANTA FE INDIAN MARKET, Santa Fe, NM:

1999  fellowship recipient from SWAIA
1999  Third Place award in Watercolor
2000 First Place award in 2-D mixed media
2001  Third Place award in 2-D mixed media
2005  First Place award in Graphics/
Second Place;award in mixed media
2006  Third Place award in Watercolor
2009   First Place/Watercolor Painting
2010   First Place/Watercolor Painting 

At the EITELJORG MUSEUM INDIAN MARKET, Indianapolis, IN:
1998    First Place/ Best of Division for Painting
2002  First Place, Paintings, Drawings & Prints, Miscellaneous category
2004  First Place in Watercolor, 2nd Place in Miscellaneous category
2006 First Place/Graphics, 2nd Place/Watercolor
2007 Third Place in Miscellaneous
2008 Second Place /Watercolor , Third Place/Graphics, Third Place/Mixed Media
2009  Second Place/watercolor
, Third Place/Mixed Media
2010   Second Place/Mixed Media

2010   Dawn received a RARE (Reaching out to Artists in Residence at the Eiteljorg) award and served a month long artist-in-residency.

At the HEARD MUSEUM INDIAN MARKET, Phoenix, AZ: 
Judge’s Choice award 2011


At the TESORO FOUNDATION INDIAN MARKET, Denver
, CO:
First Place Award in Easel Art,2002, 2003, & 2004, and BEST OF SHOW, 2003
2nd place 2010
1st place 2011


Designed a Pendleton blanket for the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, “Land of the Oneida” in 2006 and a child-sized blanket for Pendleton in 2011 featuring the creation story image of “Sky Woman”.
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POSTERS
Dawn’s work has been selected for posters for the Indian Summer Festival in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1991 and 2000, the Kituwah Celebration of Indian Art in Asheville, North Carolina in 2000, and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service American Indian Heritage Month in November, 2000. She also created a poster for the 1996 University of Wisconsin System Women’s Studies Conference and its theme “Finding Common Ground”.

CARDS AND BOOKS
Wintercount Card Company of Colorado has published cards and prints from fourteen of Dawn’s original watercolors. Her work has also been on book covers in the United States and Italy.  She is now publishing her own series of cards as well.


Among the juried and invitational shows that Dawn has participated in are:

Santa Fe Indian Market, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Heard Museum Indian Market, Phoenix, Arizona
the Trail of Tears show, Talequah, Oklahoma.
Red Earth Indian Market, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
the Red Cloud Indian Art Show, Pine Ridge, South Dakota
Indian Summer Festival, Milwaukee, WI
Haskell Indian Market, Lawrence, KS
Eiteljorg Museum Indian Market, Indianapolis, Indiana
the Tesoro Foundation Indian Market, Denver, Colorado
Art Fair Off the Square and the Winter Art Festival, Madison, Wisconsin
Indian Market and Pow Wow, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian


Dawn currently resides in Monona, Wisconsin with her husband, Keith.

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