Joan Hill

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Joan Hill Che-se-quah (Red Bird) Muscogee (Creek) citizen/Cherokee ancestry.

Joan Hills family ancestry includes Chiefs of both Creek and Cherokee Nations. G.W. Hill-Creek Nation-1923-28, and C.J. Harris Cherokee Nation-1891-95 A native of Muskogee, Oklahoma, Joan owns and lives on the site of old Fort Davis of the Confederacy with her family. Joan's studio is adjacent to to a pre-Columbian Indian Mound (1200 A.D.). Joan Hills ancestry and surroundings have a strong influence in her art and life. Hill attended Bacone College and received her degree from Northeastern State University at Tahlequah, Oklahoma. She was a public art teacher for four years before becoming a full-time artist. Internationally recognized she has the distinction of having won more awards than anyone in the world of American Indian Art, these include more than 290 awards including in Great Britain and Italy, over 20 Grand Awards, the Waite Phillips Artist Trophy, and was the winner of a $5000.00 mural competition for the Daybreak Star Performing Arts Center from the Seattle Arts Commission in Washington. In 1974 Joan was given the title "Master Artist" by the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in Muskogee, Oklahoma. 110 of her works are in permanent collections, including the United States Department of the InteriorMuseums of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Washington, D.C. and the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, New York City. State appoinments include to the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women by Governor Henry Bellmon, 1989. National Appointments include U.S. Commissioner to the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Washington D.C., by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior-2000. Where any artist would do well having achieved one recognizable style,Joan continues to create stunning works of art in not only one but several instantly recognizable styles that are hers alone.