Joan Hill

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Joan Hill, also known as Che-se-quah (Red Bird), is a Muscogee artist of Cherokee ancestry. She has the distinction of having won more awards than anyone else for American Indian art.

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Joan Hill's family ancestry includes chiefs of both Creek and Cherokee Nations.

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.

Joan has received more than 290 awards from countries including Great Britain and Italy. Other honors include over 20 Grand Awards, and the Waite Phillips Artist Trophy. In addition, Hill was the winner of a $5000 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.

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 appointments 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.

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 a pre-Columbian Indian mound dating from 1200 A.D.

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