Huron Art

                A member of the Wyandot Nation, past Executive Director of the Native American Press Association, and past Associate Editor of Native Peoples Magazine, Margaret Clark-Price is a Native American (self-taught) portraiture artist who owned and operated a gallery in Lake Tahoe before moving to the Valley of the Sun in 1985.  Her favorite medium is pastel although she uses acrylics and watercolors.    One of her pieces is a pastel of Lori Piestewa, the first Hopi female soldier who died in active duty while stationed in Iraq. 

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In June of 2005, a Navajo spiritual person performed a Blessing Ceremony at the artist’s home.  Along  with Lori’s portrait and Margaret’s courtyard Native Fountain (which she built), the two items  were dedicated to the memory of Lori  and all Native American soldiers, including Margaret’s brother who died in 1960.  Lori’s portrait was then given to the Piestewa children, Brandon and Carla.

 Artist’s statement

          For many years I have concentrated my energies on Native American portraiture.  Although I am self-taught, the faces of Native America are my expressions of culture, tradition, spirituality and history.  In the past couple of years, I have been carving/sculpting sandstone which I discovered to be a new and exciting media after having created a sandstone fountain with carvings at my home. 

           While working amidst a fog of sand dust and hidden behind goggles and a breathing mask, my mind wanders to the grandiose monolithic sandstone formations back home on the reservation.  Many of these stand as high as 10 to 20 stories and so many of my days were spent climbing to the tops and peering out over the land of sagebrush and cactus.  As any precocious child would do, I left my carved initials behind as proof of my visit.

       I have now gone beyond the “initial” steps and find so many new avenues to explore with each piece that I finish.  I cannot imagine a more perfect media in which to express my views of a people who have been as durable as the sifting sands back home – ever moving but fixed in their beliefs and lifeways.   In my small way I pay homage to those who have gone before and left their footprints upon the pathways of my personal roadways.

           More recently I have focused my energies on creating “smaller” more affordable pieces.  Using my Wyandotte name, “Tiorani’ate”, I have fashioned what I call “Tio” Pictographs and they are either hung from a leather strand or framed.  These smaller pieces are my own interpretations of stories told to me the many years I lived on the reservation. 

 I hope you enjoy viewing my work at least half as much as I have enjoyed creating each piece.

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