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2010 TULSA INDIAN ART FESTIVAL

FEBRUARY 12-13-14, 2010

SPIRITBANK EVENT CENTER

105TH & MEMORIAL, TULSA, OK

INFORMATION AND FORMS FOR THE TULSA INDIAN ART FESTIVAL ARE AVAILABLE AT:

www.tulsaindianartfestival.com

If you would like to apply for an invitation for 2010 TIAF and you are a new artist you may send your information to P.O. Box 2140, Tulsa, OK 74101. Please mail four (4) photos or slides of your recent artwork, a complete bio telling us where you have exhibited, awards won, galleries who exhibit your work and any other specific information about you and your artwork. Also, we must have a copy of your Tribal documentation for our files.

 

2009 TULSA INDIAN ART FESTIVAL

JURIED ART WINNERS

Best Of Show:

Ron Mitchell, When Mother Earth Cried

Peoples Choice: Dan Townsend

Painting:
1st- Merlin Little Thunder, The Petition
2nd- Matt Bearden, The Water Spirits
3rd- Stephen Wood, The Royal Rumble


Sculpture:
1st-Janice Albro, From Enemy Camp
2nd- Eddie Morrison, Bear Man
3rd-Charlie Pratt, Clown vs Clown


Cultural Crafts:
1st-Sandra Pallie, Autum Promise
2nd- Lindsey Shakespear
3rd-Katrina Mitten, Indigenous Marks


Jewelry:
1st- Charlie Johnson, Southeastern Dancer
2nd- Scott Roberts, Double Bowl
3rd- Victoria McKinney, Kingfisher
  
Graphics:
1st- Skip Rowell, Man of Honor
2nd- Gwen Coleman Lester
3rd- Skip Rowell, Old Memories
  

TIAF 2009 Student Scholarship Winners

Stacy Rutherford, Inola High School

Samantha Russell, Grove High School

Bailee Tullis, Grove High School

 

 

 


News & Events:

Governor Brad Henry proclaimed September 22, 2009 as "National Indian Monument and Institute Day" in the State of Oklahoma.

NIMI is located at the historic Perryman Ranch (www.perrymanranch.com)

The Perryman Ranch was established before Oklahoma statehood and is the Creek allotment of Mose S. Perryman, son of Tulsa's first family, George and Rachel Perryman. The ranch is still a working ranch and is owned by Monetta J. Trepp, NIMI Founder and CEO. Our address is 11524 S. Elwood, Jenks, OK 74037.

Phone: (918) 298-2300

Fax: (918) 298-2306

 

PRESS RELEASE

Commemorative Commissioners Reception

To commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the Ratification of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Constitution of 1979, the National Indian Monument and Institute (NIMI) hosted a Commissioners Reception on Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at the Perryman Ranch, 11524 S. Elwood in Jenks. Traditional foods were served.

Rob Trepp hosted the ceremony. Trepp is the only remaining living member of the five man commission that supervised the ratification of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Constitution. Invitations were sent to the family members of the previous commissioners, which include Lewis Fish, Virginia Watson Thomas, Allan Harjo and Bryant Jesse.

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Indian Institute Moves to Jenks
By Lillie-Beth Brinkman
The Oklahoman
Published: September 14, 2009

JENKS — Oklahoma’s tribal and ranching history will converge next weekwhen the National Indian Monument and Institute (NIMI) celebrates the moveof its headquarters from Tulsa to an Oklahoma ranch in Jenks that was established before statehood.

At 10 a.m. Sept. 22, the nonprofit institute that has a mission of
honoring, preserving, sustaining and celebrating American Indian culture
will hold a ceremonial blessing and ribbon cutting at its new offices at
the Perryman Ranch, 11524 S Elwood Ave.

"The heritage of yesterday is preserved and blended with the reality of
today and the vision of tomorrow,” Clark Inkanish said in a news release.
He will perform the blessing.

The Perryman Ranch is the Creek allotment of Mose Perryman, son of Tulsa’sfirst family, George and Rachel Perryman, who helped name Tulsa. The ranchis a working ranch owned by Monetta Trepp, NIMI’s founder and chiefexecutive, and granddaughter of Mose Perryman.

"We are excited about NIMI’s move to the Perryman Ranch,” NIMI board
President Rob Trepp said. "Monetta Trepp spent her summers at the ranch,
and this move brings NIMI full circle, back to its American Indianheritage.”
The Perryman House also contains Tulsa’s first post office, and mail once
was delivered from there to Tulsa by Pony Express.

Active since 1990, the National Indian Monument and Institute offers
cultural programs to the community, organizes the annual Tulsa Indian Art
Festival and has launched online a virtual National Wall of Warriors
dedicated to veterans. The people involved with the institute include
artists, educators, historians, linguists, actors, storytellers andlifelong students.

With NIMI’s new offices comes a plan to start a fundraising drive to build
an American Indian Cultural Center and Museum Complex with the intentionof providing cultural exchanges of language, theater, arts, cuisine history and friendship with a focus on American Indian tribes.

Monetta Trepp said the institute does not aim to compete with the American
Indian Cultural Center and Museum in Oklahoma City, which is under
construction.

"There’s room for a place at each end of the turnpike,” Trepp said about
the plans to build a center. "We’re in Indian territory.”