Indigo Art & 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.