1. Linda Lomahaftewa was born on 1947 and is a Native American printmaker, painter, and educator living in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
13 Facts About Linda Lomahaftewa
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Linda Lomahaftewa is a citizen of the Hopi Tribe and a descendant of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
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Linda J Lomahaftewa was born July 3,1947, in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Linda Lomahaftewa's father was Hopi; her mother was Choctaw from Oklahoma.
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Linda Lomahaftewa's parents had met at an American Indian boarding school.
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Linda Lomahaftewa attended a strict mission boarding school in 1961 but transferred to Phoenix Indian School, then the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1962, the year the school opened.
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Linda Lomahaftewa has participated in innumerable group and solo exhibits including those at the American Indian Contemporary Art gallery in San Francisco; the Heard Museum in Phoenix; the American Indian Community House in New York City; and the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe.
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Linda Lomahaftewa was listed in the 8th Edition of the International Who's Who in 1984.
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Linda Lomahaftewa began teaching at Sonoma State University and later at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Linda Lomahaftewa was selected as an Institute of American Indian Arts Artist-in-Residence in the autumn of 2020.
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Linda Lomahaftewa produced a new work during the residency, many of which were included in her retrospective exhibition at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, in Santa Fe.
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Linda Lomahaftewa was a participant in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art Pandemic Oral History Project in September 2020.
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Linda Lomahaftewa's brother, the late Dan Lomahaftewa, was a celebrated artist.