Dawn
Dark Mountain ~ Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin
American Woodland Indian Watercolors and Block Prints
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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
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Among the awards and honors Dawn has received are: |
1998
First Place in Watercolor and Best of Division for Painting,
Drawing and Prints at the Eiteljorg Museum Indian Market,
Indianapolis, Indiana
1999 fellowship recipient from SWAIA, (the Southwestern
Association for Indian Arts) as well as a Third Place
Award in Watercolor at that year’s Indian Market
in Santa Fe.
First Place award in 2-D mixed media at Santa Fe Indian
Market 2000
Third Place award in 2-D mixed media at Santa Fe Indian
Market 2001
First Place Award in Easel Art at the Tesoro Foundation
Indian Market, Denver, Colorado 2002, 2003; Best of Show,
2003
First Place in Painting, Drawings and Prints, Miscellaneous
category, 2002 Eiteljorg Museum Indian Market
2004 First Place Easel Art, Tesoro Foundation Indian Market,
Morrison, CO
2004 First Place Painting, Eiteljorg Museum Indian Market,
Indianapolis, Indiana
2004 Second Place Mixed Media, Eiteljorg Museum Indian
Market, Indianapolis, Indiana
2005 First Place in Graphics and Second Place in Paintings/Mixed
Media, Santa Fe Indian Market
2006 First place in Graphics, 2nd Place in waterbase Painting,
Eiteljorg Museum Indian Market
Designed Pendleton blanket for the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin,
"Land of the Oneida"
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.
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the juried and invitational shows that Dawn has participated
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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
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Dawn currently resides in Monona, Wisconsin with her husband
Keith.
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