List of Native American Female Artists
- Born to a black father and a Chippewa mother in 1844, Mary Edmonia Lewis was a celebrated sculptor who proved to white Americans and Europeans that American Indian and black artists possessed the intelligence and talents necessary to create and explain classical and neoclassical fine art. Using plaster, marble and other mediums, Lewis became an international sensation before she reached the age of 30. Better known in art circles as Edmonia Lewis, some of her most famous works include busts of Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, figures from Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha, an Emancipation celebratory piece called The Freed Woman and Her Child and a marble statue called Forever Free.
- As the daughter of the late artist Helen Hardin and granddaughter of the late artist Pablita Velarde, Margarete Bagshaw is a third-generation painter. Born and raised in New Mexico, Bagshaw is direct descendant of the Tewa people, who are a linguistic group of Pueblo Indians in the Southwest. Although she surrounded by art at a young age, Margarete Bagshaw did not begin painting until 1990. Her oil on canvas paintings have been featured in the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, a number of exhibits showcasing American Indian art and part of a permanent feature honoring the works of her mother and grandmother at the Golden Dawn Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
- A member of the Seminole and Muscogee Nations, Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie is an artist whose primary audience is the Indigenous community. Using photography and video as mediums, Tsinhnahjinnie is nationally and internationally hailed as a rare artist who uses images and contrasts to create pictures of American Indian thought and convey messages about the evolution of American Indian culture. Through her photography, Tsinhnahjinnie illustrates the importance of understanding interculturalism and the loss of identity in a modern world.
- Born in the nation of the Eastern Band Cherokee, Amanda Crowe was master woodcarver from Cherokee, North Carolina. Although she was known to use clay and stone to fashion her sculptures, she is primarily acclaimed for her skill with wood. Using woods such as black walnut and buckeye, Crowe is best known for her animal carvings, especially her highly stylized, smooth finished bears. Her work has been featured in a number of museums across the United States and in international galleries. Before her death in 2004, Crowe was also an educator and has been credited with helping to revive the interest in Cherokee woodcarvings. Her teachings and works have undoubtedly influenced contemporary Cherokee woodcarvers.