Kay WalkingStick was born on March 2,1935 and is a Native American landscape artist and a member of the Cherokee Nation.
24 Facts About Kay WalkingStick
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Kay WalkingStick is an author and was a professor in the art department at Cornell University, where she taught painting and drawing.
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Kay WalkingStick has been accepted into many artist residency programs which gave her time away from teaching duties to paint.
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Kay WalkingStick is an Honorary Vice President of the National Association of Women Artists, Inc www.
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Kay WalkingStick was born in Syracuse, New York, on March 2,1935, the daughter of Simon Ralph Walkingstick and Emma McKaig Walkingstick.
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Emma was of Scottish-Irish heritage, and Kay WalkingStick's father, Ralph, was a member of the Cherokee Nation, who wrote and spoke the Cherokee language.
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Kay WalkingStick grew up in Syracuse without having experienced the cultural heritage of her Cherokee ancestors.
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Kay WalkingStick's mother told her "Indian stories" and talked about her handsome father.
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Kay WalkingStick received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1959 from Beaver College, Glenside, Pennsylvania.
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Kay WalkingStick received her Master of Fine Arts in 1975.
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Kay WalkingStick was at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire for a month-long residency in both 1970 and 1971.
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Kay WalkingStick created representational art works after college which for the next 10 years were self-described as "hard-edged" and "realistic".
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Kay WalkingStick began a series of works about the 19th-century Nez Perce "Chief Joseph" who resisted reservation life.
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Kay WalkingStick later integrated other elements into the works, like small rocks, pieces of pottery, metal shavings, and copper.
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Kay WalkingStick used the image, as a symbol of Native Americans to people of non-native descent.
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Kay WalkingStick has made landscapes of the Rockies and the Alps and of the ancient southwestern sites, Mesa Verde and Canyon De Chelly from sketches she had made during her visits there.
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In 1988, Kay WalkingStick was hired by Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, to be an assistant professor of art.
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Kay WalkingStick taught there until 1990 when she was employed by the State University of New York, Stony Brook, a position she held for two years.
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Kay WalkingStick returned to Cornell University in 1992, where she taught drawing and painting as a full professor, retiring in 2005.
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Kay WalkingStick then moved to New York City to work full-time in her studio.
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Kay WalkingStick has retired as professor emerita of Cornell University.
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Kay WalkingStick's works have been shown in many European and American exhibitions, including both solo and group exhibitions, a few of which are National Museum of the American Indian, National Gallery of Canada and Heard Museum.
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Kay WalkingStick has become particularly renowned for her majestic and sensual landscapes, which imbue natural scenery with the charge of personal and collective memory.
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In 2020, the art of Kay WalkingStick was exhibited in the exhibition Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.