Michael Kabotie, known as Lomawywesa was a Hopi silversmith, painter, sculptor, and poet.
10 Facts About Michael Kabotie
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Michael Kabotie is known for his petroglyph and geometric imagery.
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Michael Kabotie was born September 3,1942, in Shongopovi, Arizona to Alice Talayaonema, a traditional Hopi basket weaver, and the Hopi artist Fred Kabotie.
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Michael Kabotie grew up in the village of Shongopavi and when the high school on the Hopi reservation closed, he moved and graduated from Haskell Indian School in Lawrence, Kansas in 1961.
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Michael Kabotie's father Fred Kabotie helped develop many of the overlay techniques that have come to typify quality Hopi silverwork, and he learned these techniques as a teenager.
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Michael Kabotie began to paint soon after high school and had a one-man show at the Heard Museum, soon after dropping out of University of Arizona engineering in 1966.
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Michael Kabotie's works are in such museums as the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, the Museum of Mankind in London, the Sequoyah Research Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the Gallery Calumet-Neuzzinger in Germany.
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Michael Kabotie exhibited annually at Indian Market from 1982 to 1999.
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Michael Kabotie was honored at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff, Arizona, with an exhibit titled "Walking in Harmony: The Life and Work of Lomawywesa Michael Kabotie" showcasing his art, family, and local Hopi community.
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Lomawywesa has a son named Ed Michael Kabotie who is a pottery and ceramics artist and a musician.