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Eric and Barbara Dobkin Fellows

Linda Aguilar

  • 2011
  • Linda Aguilar is a Chumash basketmaker who uses traditional techniques to create her unique horsehair and waxed thread baskets. Explaining this unusual blend, she notes, “There is a stigma to basketmakers: ‘Traditional’ or ‘Non-Traditional.’ I am both. I work with horsehair and waxed thread which are non-traditional materials. I approach the weaving with tradition. I respect the many generations of ancestral basket makers.”

Marla Allison

  • 2010
  • Emerging Laguna painter Marla Allison is noted for her innovative approach to painting. A relative newcomer to the art scene, Allison is in the process of learning new ways of visually interpreting her beliefs and self through her artwork.

Pat Courtney Gold

  • 2009
  • Pat Courtney Gold, a Wasco basketmaker, grew up on the Warm Springs Reservation in the mid-Columbia River area of central Oregon. Pat studied and helped revive the making of Wasco “sally bags,” twined root-digging bags, launching her on a new career path dedicated to the preservation of her cultural heritage.

Erica Lord

  • 2008
  • Erica Lord (Athabaskan/Iñupiaq) was born in Alaska, but abiding to her cultural tradition of nomadic living, spent the rest of her years bouncing both physically and metaphorically between her home village in Alaska and the Finnish-American nucleus of Upper Michigan.

Dorothy Grant

  • 2007
  • The marriage of Northwest Coast art and American haute couture remains the exceptional achievement and creative expression of clothing designer Dorothy Grant, who was awarded the 2007 Eric and Barbara Dobkin Native Artist Fellowship at the School for Advanced Research on the Human Experience (SAR).

Christine Nofchissey McHorse

  • 2006
  • Christine is an award winning potter-sculptor-jeweler and is best known for her work in micaceous clay.

Evalena Henry

  • 2005
  • Evalena Henry, of Peridot, Arizona, is recognized as a master basket weaver among the San Carlos Apaches. Her mother, Cecilia Henry, taught her to make baskets when she was fifteen years old.

Suzan Shown Harjo

  • 2004
  • Suzan expresses her commitments as a woman and an advocate for human rights in many ways. In addition to her work in the public arena, her poems evoke a grace and passion embracing all patterns of life. They are an art form nurtured by her family, a rich cultural heritage, and her private and public activities.

Teri Greeves

  • 2003
  • An outstanding bead worker, Teri has won awards for her beading every year since 1997 at the Heard Museum Fair and Market in Phoenix, the Southwestern Association of Indian Arts Market in Santa Fe, and the Eight Northern Pueblos Arts and Crafts Show held yearly in northern New Mexico.

Gloria Emerson

  • 2002
  • From Shiprock, New Mexico, Gloria is a visual artist and poet. She is deeply committed to her art; this commitment finds root in her observations of the changes she sees in her culture.

Stella Teller

  • 2001
  • Stella Teller, a Southern Tiwa from Isleta Pueblo, was awarded the three-month Eric and Barbara Dobkin Native American Artist Fellowship in March 2001. Stella works with graceful ceramic male and female storytellers, whimsical story bears, and other animals in muted hues of gray-blue, white, and burnt sienna.