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BIOGRAPHY

I attended High School of Art & Design, Manhattan, New York 1980 - 1982. Kahnawake Survival School 1983, Quebec Canada, and the Institute Of American Indian Art 1983- 1986, Santa Fe, New Mexico. The schools gave me the tools it was up to me to be productive. For a short time I worked at the American Indian Community Gallery/Museum, NY 1989. After my divorce in 2003, I returned to my Mohawk Territory and Longhouse. I picked up my paint brushes again and felt inspired.

Inspiration guides me while I paint. I try to incorporate bright colors with a touch of light and shadow with texture. I’ve heard Iroquois Creation Stories as a child from Tom Porter. They stayed with me all my life. I also seek Darryl Thompson as my elder advisor in Kahnawake on Iroquois subject matters for my art through stories. I have these paintings in my head and ache until I’m able to produce them to canvas. Some of my paintings have beadwork on them. It’s such a part of who I am, for many years all I did was beadwork for pow-wow & traditional dancing and wedding regalia‘s, now I truly feel blessed to have this gift to produce beautiful art with paint and beads.

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Takefumi Hori

10.16.2009

Towanna.Thank you. Take. .

Aural Martin

9.20.2009

Thanks, for hanging in there as a friend. I know I have been so busy, I learned that I need to just make more time to doing the things I love. There is so many things that can be so depressing if we let it get to us. I am happy when I paint, I guess it reminds me of when I was younger and I was happier then. So, you will see more of my paintings. Thanks for telling me to paint more. I have been thinking about what you said and I am happier when my painting turned out like it did. I am going to finish my Red Tail hawk picture hopefully before Thanksgiving. Keep in touch I am going to be redoing my website hopefully before Jan. Aural .

Aine Scannell

11.28.2008

Towanna great news about you being selected for the Olympic 2010 exhibition -- you already have some beautiful pieces such as the one with the bear and the turtle (which I would imagine is probably one of your most loved by all!) to show, but perhaps you are planning to make some new pieces? hope it goes well for you. Its hard going when ones submission is not selected so nice to hear when someones work DOES get selected. Maybe I will get some good news sometime one of these days!! Aine .

Nancy LeMay

6.20.2008

The Bear is my birth spirit animal. I love your Bear painting. All your paintings are beautiful. .

Aural Martin

6.20.2008

yes, I am working on a Red Tailed Hawk, in Acrylics . I painted a Ponderosa Pine tree and doing it in 3D collage style, It pops off the canvas like real bark. Then I am going to make paper feathers pop off the canvas also. a few feathers off the Hawk. So it is a mixture of things. Tomahawk is broken from the past. So, It is taking me a while to paint it. I am getting excited as I am doing each section. The problem I think I am going to run into if I should frame it behind glass or not I think it would run the whole thing. I might make a Natural frame to go around it. Branches or something. .