Michael Kabotie
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Michael Kabotie, (1942 - ) Hopi tribe, silversmith, painter, & sculptor.
Hopi artist Michael Kabotie has been making work for close to fifty years. His father Fred Kabotie was among the group of artists who developed many of the overlay techniques that have come to typify quality Hopi silverwork, and Kabotie learned this as a teenager. He began to paint soon after high school, and had a one-man show at the Heard Museum soon after dropping out of college. In the early ‘70s, Kabotie founded a group of painters called Artist Hopid, which was dedicated to new interpretation of traditional Hopi art forms. Since then, Kabotie, has painted or made jewelry, written poetry and essays, and lectured around the country. Today, both Kabotie’s paintings and silverwork have an organic graffiti-like quality with a lot of motion and symbolism, with a rich color palette on canvas and an added dimension when rendered in silver.
