Makita wilbur biography samples

Matika began her career in fashion and commercial work in Los Angeles after completing the prestigious Brooks Institute of Photography. Matika chose to devote herself to photography as a creator and messenger, soon producing multiple acclaimed exhibitions in leading museums and other venues of her striking portraits of Pacific Northwest and other Native peoples.

Matika has in this endeavor visited members of over sovereign nations throughout 40 states, from Tlingits in Alaska to the Pima in Arizona, Pomos in California to Wampanoags on Cape Cod. Through her lens, we are able to see the diversity, vibrancy and realness of Indian Country, and in seeing, challenge and surpass stereotypical representations and refresh the national conversation about contemporary Native America.

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Makita wilbur biography samples

ISBN Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher. Boston: Mariner Books. All My Relations. Tacoma Art Museum. Beautiful black and white images that selectively incorporate color and showcase their subjects in vital mutualism with the lands on which they live and which they steward. But her virtuoso technique is only one aspect of the social and cultural meaning of the works.

They are one product of her dynamic engagement with Native communities in which she takes the time to understand the stories and histories of particular tribes. Each particular tribe and each individual and experience which shapes entirely the way the portrait comes to be. One gets the sense that her works reflect a true partnership between artist and sitter.

Matika Wilbur is from the Swinomish and Tulalip Tribes.