Ramona Sakiestewa

Birthplace: Albuquerque, NM

Education
1966        Santa Fe Preparatory School (Santa Fe, NM)
1963-6    Verde Valley School (Sedona, AZ)

Selected Commissions
    –    Kenneth Noland Tapestry Series: A series of Noland designs
commissioned by Gloria F. Ross Tapestries (New York, NY)
-       Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation (Taliesin West, AZ): A series of thirteen
tapestries from the designs of Frank Lloyd Wright
    –    Bernice Steinbaum Gallery (New York, NY): A tapestry of painter
Paul Brach’s work

Solo Exhibitions
2002        Cultural Colors: Fiber Art & Drawings (Heard Museum North, Carefree, AZ)
1997        Ramona Sakiestewa/Recent Acquisitions (Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ)
1995        Patterns of the Southwest: Tapestries by Ramona Sakiestewa
    (John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI)
1993        Between the Four Sacred Mountains: (Museum of the Southwest, Pasadena, CA)
1991        Ramona Sakiestewa/Frank Lloyd Wright, Themes and Variations (The Newark Museum,
    Newark, NJ. Tapestries executed by Ramona Sakiestewa Ltd. for the Frank Lloyd Wright
    Foundation, Taliesin West, AZ)
    1989        Ramona Sakiestewa/Patterned Dreams (Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian,
        Santa Fe, NM)

Selected Group Exhibitions
2007        East Meets West: Ramona Sakiestewa/G. Peter Jemison (Eight Modern, Santa Fe, NM)
2004        NDN Art (Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM)
2002        Changing Hands (American Craft Museum, New York, NY)
1997-98    Colors, Contrasts, Cultures (Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT)
        O’Keeffe’s New Mexico (Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM)
1996-97    Native Abstractions: Modern Forms, Ancient Ideas (Museum of Indian Arts and Culture,             Santa Fe, NM)
1992-present    American Encounters 1992 (National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution,             Washington, DC)

Selected Collections
    –    Museum of Fine Arts (Santa Fe, NM)
    –    The Heard Museum (Phoenix, AZ)
    –    Friends of Art and Preservation in Embassies, Washington, DC (US Embassy in Uganda)
    –    National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC)
    –    Museum of Albuquerque (Albuquerque, NM)
    –    The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian (Santa Fe, NM)
    –    The Denver Art Museum (Denver, CO)
    –    The Kennedy Museum of American Art (Athens, OH)
    –    University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology (Philadelphia, PA)

Selected Awards & Fellowships
2006        Inductee, New Mexico Women’s Hall of Fame (Albuquerque, NM)
        Governor’s Outstanding New Mexico Woman’s Award (Santa Fe, NM)
        Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts (Santa Fe, NM)
1995        Mayor’s Recognition Award for Excellence in the Arts (Santa Fe, NM)
1991        United States Information Agency (USIA) Lecture Tour of Japan
1982-91    1st Place – Contemporary Weaving (Indian Market, Southwestern Association on Indian
        Affairs, Santa Fe, NM)
1988         Smithsonian Research Fellowship (Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC)