By Jazmyn Schmaltz
Students were able to enter their own artwork for the Tamastslikt Cultural Institute’s Artworkz show held January 28 through March 17 this year.
The art show had a few of our own enter and received awards: Sierra Breeding, Carson Chester, Paige Jones, and Nancy Hernandez. Sierra took home first prize, which was a $50.00 gift card to their gift shop. She said she doesn't know how she is going to be spending it yet. She entered a painting of Indian tribal horses.
I asked her how she created the beautiful art. She said, “I used acrylic paint, but I sketched it out in pencil first.” She went on to say, “ It took me about 45 minutes, which is a short time for me. I usually spend 4 hours plus on a painting.”
The Tamastslikt Cultural Institute is a museum and research institute, and you can find it on the Umatilla Indian Reservation near Pendleton, Oregon. It’s the only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail. So that explains her painting. The institute is focused on the cultures of the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla tribes. The main exhibit of the museum features a history of the cultures of the three tribes and of the reservation itself. The museum also has another wing for temporary exhibitions of specific types of Native American art, craftwork, history, and folklore related to the tribes.
This was not the first time Sierra has been awarded for her art. Last year, she entered at the 4-H fair and won a blue ribbon. In 4-H there are 5 main placings for ribbons: dark purple is grand champion, light purple is reserve champion, blue is first, red is second, and white is third. She said, “It was a very good feeling knowing that people who have jobs in the art world liked what I had done.” She does some great art, as do Paige, Carson and Nancy. Great Job Guys.
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