Mary Adair is a Cherokee Nation educator and painter based in Oklahoma.
11 Facts About Mary Adair
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Mary Adair served as the director of the Murrow Indian Children's Home on the Bacone College campus in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and directed for the Cherokee Nation Jobs Corp Center before becoming the art instructor at Sequoyah High School in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
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Mary Adair won numerous art prizes and exhibited mainly in the Southeastern and Western United States.
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Mary Adair has pieces in the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in Muskogee, Oklahoma, as well as other public collections.
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Mary Adair was born on June 2,1936, in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma to Velma and Corrigan Adair.
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Mary Adair has exhibited at the 'Trail of Tears Art Show and Cherokee Homecoming in Park Hill, the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in Muskogee, the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, the Museum of the Cherokee Indian of Cherokee, North Carolina, the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma and the Red Cloud Indian Art Show in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, among others.
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In 1972, Adair won a first-place award at the Five Civilized Tribes annual competitive art show and was featured with David E Williams in a two-person exhibition and lecture held at the Goddard Center in Ardmore, Oklahoma.
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Mary Adair repeated the win at the Five Civilized Tribes art show in the following year with a first-place award.
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Mary Adair again joined Stroud, Harjo, Jones, as well as Joan Brown, Jean Bales, Valjean McCarty Hessing, and Jane McCarty Mauldin in the Daughters of the Earth exhibition, curated by Doris Littrell, which toured from 1985 to 1988 throughout the United States and Europe.
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Mary Adair was one of the artists interviewed in 2011 for the Oklahoma State University's Oklahoma Native Artists Oral History Project.
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Mary Adair's works were included in the Women of the Five Civilized Tribes exhibition hosted by the museum in Muskogee in 2019.