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Anita Fields, Red Legs (Monotype 14″ × 17″). Photo credit: Tom Fields. Resides in the Collection of Edd Guarino. Copyright © 2018 Anita Fields. Used by permission of the artist.
Born in Oklahoma, Native American artist Anita Fields creates works ofclay and textile that refl ect the worldview of her Osage culture. Her workrepresents the disruption of balance found within the earth and our livesand, more broadly, early Osage notions of duality such as earth and sky,male and female. Fields’s sculptures were exhibited in Changing Hands:Art without Reservation in New York City. Her work was featured in the8th Native American Fine Art Invitational at the Heard Museum inPhoenix, Arizona. Her work was also included in Who Stole the Teepee? atthe National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution,New York; and the Legacy of the Generations: Pottery by American IndianWomen, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. Fieldshas been awarded numerous residencies, including the Eitelljorg Museum’sRARE program and the Andy Warhol Fine Arts Residency at the HeardMuseum. Fields was one of forty- seven Native American delegates fundedby the Kellogg Foundation and the Institute of American Indian Arts totravel to South Africa for The Answers Lie Within. Fields is a fellow with theKaiser Tulsa Artist Fellowship program. Fields’s work has been publishedin Southwest Art magazine, American Craft , Ms. Magazine, American Style,and Native Peoples. Her work can be found in several collections, such asthe Museum of Art and Design in New York City; the Institute of AmericanIndian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico; the Crystal Bridges Museum,Bentonville, Arkansas; and the Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona