Duane Slick

• 2010
• Duane Slick is a Mesqwaki painter whose current body of work features black-and-white photo-realist paintings on linen and glass. His works have been described as “dream paintings whose aim is the exploration of matters spiritual, not physical.”

Ulysses Reid

• 2009
• Zia potter Ulysses Reid will embark on a very personal journey by working closely with the IARC’s Henate Collection. The collection consists of almost 200 pottery design sketches by Andres Galvan. Ulysses, who is Galvan’s grandson, will be producing pottery and using the sketches in honor of his grandfather.

Jeffrey Gibson

• 2008
• Jeffrey Gibson is a painter and installation artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He is Mississippi Band of Choctaw and Cherokee.

Jason Garcia

• 2007
• Jason, who has been working in clay for the past fifteen years and primarily on tiles since 2001, comes from a long line of traditional and contemporary Pueblo potters that includes his parents, Gloria (Goldenrod) and John Garcia.

Randy Chitto

• 2006

Everett Pikyavit

• 2005

Marcus Amerman

• 2004
• Marcus is a painter, sculptor, and an extraordinary bead worker. He began doing beadwork at the age of ten, he says, “as a response to growing up in a very creative environment. Almost everyone in my extended family did beadwork for our own personal use and for adornment as Indians and pow-wow participants, and I quite naturally adopted and adapted this family tradition.”

Elijah Naranjo Smith

• 2003

Mateo Romero

• 2002

Kalley Keams Lucero

• 2001

Nora Naranjo-Morse

• 2000

Alfred Lomahquahu

• 1999

Diane Reyna

• 1998

Gary Yazzie

• 1998

Kevin Navasie

• 1997

Shawn Tafoya

• 1996

Angie Reano Owen

• 1995

Lonnie Vigil

• 1994