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Winners Of Native American Indian Contest

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Winners Of Native American Indian Contest

May 16th, 2012 - Muskegon, MI

1st and 3rd Place Winner of the Native American Indian Pride contest on Fine Art America is Mia DeLode.

1st Place "It's More Than Just Footwork" http://fineartamerica.com/featured/its-more-than-just-the-footwork-mia-delode.html

3rd Place "Sacred Traditions" http://fineartamerica.com/featured/sacred-traditions-mia-delode.html

Mia DeLode is a fourth generation rancher from central Montana. Born and bred to be part of the rural west, she is an accomplished painter, sculptor, and writer of the culture, animals, people and the humor that is unique to western living. Her paintings appear in many shows and her writing has been featured in Crazy Woman Creek published by Mariner books, a three part anthology of western women. Mia has been showing at the C.M.Russell Auction and Show at Great Falls, Montana since 2006 as well as other national shows including the Mountain Oyster in Tucson, Arizona, Empire 110 in Tucson Arizona and the Art Festival in San Dimas, California. She was given special recognition by the Great Falls Historical Museum for her work titled “1890’s First Responders” featuring the last working team of fire horses in the United States.

Native American Indian Pride Contest on FAA 2nd Place Winner :

2nd Place Winner of the Native American Indian Pride contest on Fine Art America is Olivia Francis.

Olivia was born in Quanah, Texas on July 4th, 1952.

Her nationality includes: Cherokee, Comanche, Irish, Dutch,

Scotch, French, and Italian.

‘I’m what some refer to as a “mutt!”

She began developing her artistic abilities from the age of five

thanks to her artistic father who nurtured her in that direction

with a gentle nudge using an imagination building art game called

Scribble. “My father was my best friend, my hero and my biggest fan!”

He still 'is' in my heart...

Choice of medium and subject matter include:

Acrylic, Oil, Pencil/Color Pencil, Pen and Ink, mixed media,

scrimshaw, wood burning and photography.

Her favorite subjects are Native American,

Southwest, animals, scenery, portraits

Artwork history, (1974-present):

-Bankima Enterprises Santa Cruz, Ca.,

Created one of a kind scrimshaw pieces of various subjects etched onto ivory cabs.

-Prestige Stained Glass Company, Prescott, Az.

Designed and rendered patterns for stain glass windows.

-The Lost Dutchman Gallery, Prescott, Az.

Scrimshaw artist.

Engraved various sizes and subjects onto ivory cabs.

-The Great American Picture Show, Prescott, Az.

Created twelve color pencil floral designs,

that were distributed worldwide.

-Native American Flutes, Weatherford, TX.

Worked as an artist/Designer/Seamstress for flutes, leather flute bags and accessories.

Job-included wood burning and painting geometric designs, animals, etc. on

various sized flutes and leather flute bags.

(Airbrush artist and Sculptress were also among her various titles.)

Also: designed artwork for the

Weatherford, TX. Annual Peach Festival T-shirts in 1997 and 2000.

Art Shows:

The George Phippen Memorial Art Show in Prescott, Az. 1983,

and various other Art and Craft shows including the yearly Weatherford and

Mineral Wells Art Association Shows where her art was honored with many ribbons

including 'Best of' and 'Peoples choice'.

* Other interests include writing and illustrating children's books.

Her magnificent piece that won second place: http://fineartamerica.com/featured/as-the-crow-flies-olivia-francis.html

A huge congrats to both of the very talented artists. Thank you both for entering!