Rhiannon Skye Tafoya (born 1989) is a Native American printmaker known for her serigraphy, woven paper, and artist's books. She lives in Cherokee, North Carolina.
Background Rhiannon Skye Tafoya was born in 1989. She is a citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and a descendant of Santa Clara Pueblo. Relatives on both sides of her family were basket weavers.
Education Tafoya earned her BFA degree at Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and her MFA at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon.
Art career In 2019, she had an artist's residency at the Women's Studio Workshop.
In 2022 Self Help Graphics & Art produced a serigraph entitled Relatives.
Exhibitions In 2021, her work was included in the exhibition A Living Language: Cherokee Syllabary and Contemporary Art at the Museum of the Cherokee People and the Asheville Art Museum. She has also exhibited at Hecho a Mano in Santa Fe, 516 Arts in Albuquerque, the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, and the International Print Center in New York.
Collections Her work is in several public collections. These include: Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, Washington Charles Trumbull Hayden Library Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin–Madison Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC U.S. Library of Congress, Washington, DC
References
External links Rhiannon Skye Tafoya: Digegv (Where I'm From) images at Hecho a Mano Episode #128: Rhiannon Skye Tafoya podcast interview Helen Hiebert Studio