Majestic Figures Contemporary Sculptures by Native American Artists
The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection at the Heard Museum
In December 2022, Charles and Valerie Diker gave the Heard Museum twenty-three works of contemporary Indigenous art, a selection of mixed media sculpture that they collected over the past twenty-five years. These examples reflect the achievements of five master artists: Rhonda Holy Bear, Joyce Growing Thunder, Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty, Jessa Rae growing Thunder, and Jamie Okuma. This publication was inspired by this transformative gift.
The sculptural figures that he Dikers assembled comprise a singular collection in the world of contemporary American Indian art. it would be impossible to replicate. The figures reflect customary cultural practices, including painting on hide and sewing with porcupine quills and glass beads, but at such a transcendent level that they are world-class works of art.
Hardcover
Measurements: 12 1/4" x 9 1/4"
128 pages