2026 Artist List | INDIGICHIC

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2026-27 INDIGICHIC Artist List

I create wearable art with a Modern & Traditional approach. My work represents Ancestral knowledge attained from my Tribes in the Southeastern Woodlands (Mvskoke Creek-Euchee/ Choctaw) and the Southwestern Deserts (Diné). My works are made with Materials & Techniques that have been used in my Tribes for countless Generations. Material used in my jewelry tells a story of trade routes and specific geographic materials important to my people. Incorporating: Shell, Pearls, Carving/Etching Techniques from the Southeast & combined with: Tufa Casting, Silver & Turquoise from the Southwest.

Ahlazua

Mvskoke Creek-Euchee, Choctaw, Diné

Jewelry

Shannon is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Her Choctaw heritage is deeply important to her, and she has had a lifelong connection to nature, animals, and spirit. It is through that connection which enables her to tap into traditional healing practices and create gentle and nourishing infusions. From her pain salves and herbal teas to natural makeup, each product is crafted with care and intention using minimal, high quality ingredients.

Chahta Lady Blends

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

Bath and Body, Herbal Teas

Samson Doss is a Mvskoke artist, designer, actor, and maker. A citizen of the Muscogee Nation, he draws from culture, history, identity, and lived experience. His work spans fashion, jewelry, sculpture, and wearable art, blending Indigenous influence with contemporary design. Describing his approach as neo Indigenous, Samson transforms tradition into something new. With experience in construction, steel fabrication, sewing, buckskin, and copper, he brings craftsmanship and purpose to every creation while honoring his Native heritage.

Fuswalgi

Muscogee Nation

Copper jewelry

Jessica Laine is an Afro-Indigenous, self-taught Artist (Ponca, Otoe-Missouria & Iowa tribes). She started her business, Jess Laine Arts, in 2022 that is based in her hometown Tulsa, Oklahoma. She creates freehand designs that are painted and burned on Fedora hats, handcrafts Indigenous jewelry and 2D/3D paintings that she shares with the community by doing art shows. She continues to grow her knowledge on different types of styles that inspire her expand her creativity. Each item is crafted with care, love and attention to detail to making them not just accessories but wearable works of art.

Jess Laine Arts

Ponca of Oklahoma, Otoe - Missouria & Iowa

Jewelry, wearable hat art fashion, beaded accessories

Originally from Park Hill, OK, Erica Cheater works as a self-taught artist under the name, Misselaineous. The name comes from combining her middle name, Elaine, and the word "miscellaneous".
Versed in various art forms, she primarily focuses on beadwork, gaining experience in the medium by utilizing the two-needle flat stitch, peyote stitch, and loom work methods.
Her designs are influenced by her Cherokee culture ;however, they are also infused with a modern, pop culture flair. Currently residing in Tulsa, OK, with her husband, Colby, she is constantly pursuing new projects and learning new skills/techniques.

Misselaineous Art

United Keetoowah Band

Contemporary beadwork/ beaded jewelry and accessories

Jennifer Reeder (Caddo Nation) is a contemporary beadwork artist based in Oklahoma whose work bridges traditional Southeastern design with modern Native fashion. Inspired by Caddo artistic traditions, she creates hand-stitched beadwork emphasizing symmetry, precision, and layered color. Working with glass seed beads, shell, bone, crystal, and metal, Reeder transforms Southeastern and Caddo motifs into contemporary statement jewelry. Her collections blend traditional craftsmanship with modern techniques, including laser-cut acrylic and engraved wood, creating lightweight, distinctive pieces that honor tribal culture while embracing a contemporary Native aesthetic. Each piece reflects her commitment to preserving tradition through innovative, wearable art.

Oklahoma Thirty-Nine

Caddo Nation

Beaded and acrylic jewelry

Raychelle “BESH” Shabi is a Diné (Navajo) artist from Whitecone, Arizona, on the Navajo Nation. Taught by her Nali (grandmother) at a young age to make “Ghost Beads” from juniper berry seeds, Raychelle has carried this tradition with her throughout her life. Through BESH L.L.C., she reclaims and celebrates her Indigenous identity by creating modern accessories inspired by the beauty, traditions, and enduring spirit of the Navajo people.

She now resides in Oklahoma with her life partner, J.D. Colbert, while family in the Southwest continues to keep her spirit rooted in the land, culture, and teachings of her ancestors. Through her art, Raychelle carries these teachings forward, creating pieces that invite others to carry a small part of that story, beauty, and spirit with them.

Raychelle "BESH" Shabi

Dine(Navajo)

Beaded Handbags and Beaded Jewelry

Sew Rez specializes in distinctive patchwork apparel that bridges heritage and modern style. As a seamstress with over ten years of experience, I craft each piece with our people in mind and I hope whatever manifests is undeniable. Sew Rez prioritizes individuality, sustainability, and rich storytelling through fabric with each stitch honoring tradition and intentional design. Sew Rez celebrates the cultural foundation of Native art in every ceremonial, formal, and informal piece that is created.

Sew Rez

Pawnee

Patchwork apparel and accessories

F. Dana Bear is an enrolled citizen of the Osage Nation and a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores ancestry, identity, memory, and cultural continuity. Through handmade jewelry and wearable art, Dana creates pieces rooted in family, story, and the lived experience of being Afro-Indigenous. Her creative practice is informed by her Osage lineage, community responsibilities, and connection to generations past and future. Dana is also a full-spectrum doula, Certified Indigenous Lactation Counselor, herbalist, and community cook, weaving care, culture, and creativity throughout her work.

Tallchief Designs

Osage

Jewelry

War Party

Osage

Native streetwear apparel

Alex Ponca Stock

Osage

Beadwork and apparel

Elaine Emmons is Cherokee from Tulsa, OK.
Finding cultural connections & those in nature most inspire her.
Color & texture are also inspirations.
Learning about her native roots & meeting/working with other native artists has been the greatest gift & discovery in her artistic career

Elaine Emmons

Cherokee

Textiles

Amanda Rutland (Muscogee (Creek)/Seminole Nation) is a daughter of the Raccoon Clan with a deep connection to her tribal heritage. While formally trained as a photographer/videographer, she has evolved into a self-taught artist, specializing in copper and gemstone jewelry that merges ancestral iconography and symbolism with contemporary color and pattern concepts. She has pieces in the collections of the First Peoples of Alabama exhibit and the Atlanta History Center. She has also exhibited at Moundville in Alabama and the LeFonda Hotel in Santa Fe, NM. Amanda currently resides in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, with her husband and two children.

Indigo Art & Textiles

Muscogee Creek Nation

Copper and silver jewelry featuring Mound builder iconography

Sky Wildcat, PhD. is an aspiring Cherokee/Mvskoke designer and artist and the founder of Kowakuce – Wildcat Creations, established in 2024. Through her jewelry, clothing, and digital art, Sky blends traditional Southeastern Indigenous designs with retro and contemporary influences.

Kowakuce

Cherokee Nation and Mvskoke descendant

Woven jewelry, Mankiller Pearl shell jewelry, acylic earrings, wooden earrings, handmade skirts, dresses, and shirts; graphic tees

NoHeart Designs is armor and beauty made by the Heartless.

Marly Nicole Fixico was raised in the Seminole Reservation, Okla Humma, Indian Territory. Marly is Seminole, Navajo, and Laguna Pueblo, she is Mekusukey Band and of the Wind Clan. The name Fixico translates from Mvskoke/Semvnole Language as “no heart” or “heartless.”

I say that my heart doesn’t belong to me but to the people and the land. I design and create for my friends and relatives in hopes that they feel proud and strength to present themselves. I make art that can be passed down through the seasons and generations.

NoHeart Designs

Seminole Nation, Navajo, and Laguna Pueblo

Reclaimed Apparel with Indigenous Flair, Seminole Patchwork handmade items, clothing, accessories, and beadwork

Osage Indian fine artist who is skilled in draping, tailoring, beadwork, jewelry, silk-screen printing, ribbon work, body and textile painting, contemporary and tradition design and symbolism with works in permanent museum collections and current exhibitions. Retired fine arts instructor. Pendleton blanket designer. Theatre costume designer. Fashion designer.

Ponca Designs

Osage

Fiber Arts and Fashion Design

Okcate approaches art as a powerful tool of expression and an agent of change, celebrating the relationship between Body and Land. She grew up in the Ancestral Homelands of the Mvskoke in Georgia and Alabama and now resides in Tvlse, OK. Okcate, the Mvskoke word for the color scarlet, was chosen as her name from a Mvskoke Dictionary before she was born. She entered this world at dawn, wailing like a fire engine, brick-red, with ginger hair. The name fit! She strives to make art as bold as her name and to encourage others to imagine, and manifest their dreams.

Scarlet Garlands

Mvskoke

Handmade and acrylic jewelry featuring original graphic designs. Clothing featuring original graphic designs. Various accessories and stickers

Antonia Belindo is a Kiowa artist whose work is rooted in family, cultural identity, and the enduring relationships between people, land, and community. A graduate of the University of Oklahoma’s School of Visual Arts, she carries forward the artistic legacy of her grandfather, acclaimed Kiowa artist Dennis Belindo, and the teachings of her grandmother, Lucille Bigbow. Poolaw Her practice combines contemporary expression with Indigenous symbolism, storytelling, and advocacy. Working across painted textiles, fashion accessories, and utilitarian objects, she transforms everyday materials into vessels for storytelling. Through language and visual symbolism, Belindo creates work that honors ancestral knowledge while expressing living, evolving Indigenous experiences.

Studio Belindo

Kiowa, Pawnee, Choctaw, Dine

Acrylic painted accessories (umbrellas, purses, jewelry, wallets)

I started leather work in 2019 as a simple hobby, and able to learn from my elders and other family members. And I started airbrushing around 2022. I've been working at Navajo Coal mine for 18 yrs, and enjoy doing this on my free time.

WS Art

Navajo Nation (Diné)

Leather Work

Jennifer (Cherokee Nation) is a longtime hairstylist/makeup artist and lover of the arts. She's also a freelance writer and photographer for the Stillwater News Press and Crosswinds News. Jennifer loves creating, whether it's soaps and bath soaks or hairstyles and makeup looks. She has styled multiple fashion shows and won awards for her photography. Her soaps and accessories are also available in the artist store at First Americans Museum.

Wash House Soapery

Cherokee Nation

Novelty soaps, bath & body, acrylic accessories

I am Pawnee and Cherokee, but grew up on the Zuni reservation in Zuni, NM. I am a Haskell and KU alumni. I live on the Cherokee reservation in NE Oklahoma with my 2 sons. I have been beading since I was a young girl, taught by my mom and others along the way. I am not a full-time artist; it is something I truly enjoy doing in my spare time. Positive energy and thoughts are part of my must haves when I bead.

Carla Feathers

Pawnee and Cherokee

Beadwork

Jaylee Lowe is a proud member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma & is also of Muscogee (Creek) descent. She is an award winning self-taught Seminole patchwork artist who has established a style that can be distinguished by her prioritization of remnants. Honoring the technique of remnants is significant to her work as it has been used traditionally & is reflected through the variety of colors found in her pieces. From starting with traditional Seminole clothing to creating with a contemporary approach towards Seminole designs, she strives to create pieces that honor the storytelling ability that is inherent to Seminole patchwork.

Entvcke

Seminole & Muscogee (Creek)

Seminole Patchwork Clothing and Accessories

Veronica Pipestem is an Otoe-Missouria/Osage/Potawatomi multidisciplinary artist who primarily works in beads, metal, and hide. Pipestem’s work explores the intersections between land, seed, and traditional knowledge stewardship. Pipestem owns ItsimiVee, a firm that specializes in contract grant writing and in developing practical solutions for cultural and natural resources organizations. Pipestem is also a co-founder of INDIGICHIC, an experiential fashion arts boutique that offers exclusive collections of Native artists’ work. In addition to being an artist and entrepreneur, Pipestem strives to be a good Landcestor by growing, rematriating, and maintaining relationships with ancestral seed relatives.

ItsimiVee Creations

Otoe-Missouria/Osage/Potawatomi

jewelry and wearables

Kristin Hoover Gentry (Choctaw) is an award-winning artist, curator, educator, and arts professional based in Oklahoma. Her multidisciplinary practice spans painting, printmaking, graphic art, jewelry, and fashion, drawing inspiration from Choctaw culture, Southeastern Moundbuilder iconography, and ancestral knowledge. Gentry’s work has been recognized at the SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market, Cherokee Art Market, Artesian Arts Festival, and SEASAM. Her artwork has been commissioned and collected by the Choctaw Nation, Starbucks, Paramount+, Audible, and others. Through both her studio practice and curatorial work, Gentry centers Indigenous storytelling, cultural continuity, innovation, and contemporary expressions of Southeastern identity.

KreativeNative

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

Acrylic jewelry, clothing, stickers, note cards

Nyi K’omi (Kennetha Greenwood) is an award-winning mixed media artist whose work bridges tradition and contemporary expression. Drawing inspiration from her Otoe-Missouria people, she creates designs digitally for ready-to-wear and also handcrafts apparel and accessories while honoring their distinctive woodland aesthetic. Taught by her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, Nyi K’omi began creating intricate floral patterns at a young age.

Nyi K'omi

Otoe-Missouria

Apparel, leather belts and jewelry

Katelynn Pipestem, owner of Pretty Feathers Artistry, is a hide worker and jewelry maker, specializing in animal Parfleche/rawhide.
Katelynn is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. She's also a descendant of the Otoe-Missouria, Osage, Zia Pueblo, and Potawatomi tribes. Katelynn also creates ledger art, feather work, and regalia. Katelynn's spirituality, relations to plants, and tribal affiliation heavily influence her artwork.

Pretty Feathers Artistry

Cheyenne, Otoe-Missouria

Mixed media

Faith Harjo-Jones is a self-taught Indigenous beadwork artist who blends contemporary materials with traditional symbols and motifs that honor her journey as a matriarch, an educator, and a scientist. Her work has graced the red carpet, been worn by tribal dignitaries and artists, been in magazines, and traveled the country to be showcased in different markets.
As an artist, Faith believes in creating in prayerful reflection to tell stories that always point back to the Creator.

Senoj Designs

Mvskoke

Jewelry

Allison Jones is an Osage/Prairie Band Potawatomi/Creek artist and owner of Sweet Al’s Creations. Jones is from the Deer Clan and Wahxahkoli District, she specializes in custom beadwork featured at the 2024 Oscars, 2024-2025 New York Fashion Week and many Runway Shows. Her one-of-a-kind wearable art is handmade with love, prayer, and deep cultural influence passed down from her late E.KO, Mary Grayce Gray-Bighorse.

Sweet Als Creations

Osage

Accessories

Wahsahpeh Beauty

Osage, Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw, & Seminole

Beauty products (lotion, lip balm, soap, etc.) & Hotel amenities

Weomepe Designs

Otoe-Missouria/Osage/Pawnee/Sac&Fox

Jewelry/Apparel/Wearable Art/Accessories

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