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- Anita Fields (born 1951) is an Osage/Muscogee Native American ceramic and textile artist based in Oklahoma. She is an enrolled member of the Osage Nation. Fields is recognized internationally for her work in ceramics, often rendering functional items such as purses, moccasins, and dresses in clay. She is also well known for her conceptual museum installations and ribbonwork. Museums that have collected Fields' work include the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona; the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; the Museum of Art and Design in New York City, the Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian Institution, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. Her work has been included in exhibitions such as Atlatl's Who Stole the Tepee at the National Museum of the American Indian, Legacy of the Generations: American Indian Women Potters at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Fluent Generations: The Art of Anita, Tom and Yatika Fields at the Sam Noble Museum, and Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists (2019–20), a traveling exhibition at Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee; Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, and Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 2019, Fields participated in a Osage Nation Museum exhibition project called "Voices from the Drum" where 19 drums were dispersed to accomplished Osage artists. Each artist created a design to be displayed on the drum. The drums, having significance in Osage culture, were created by hand by Rock Pipestem. Fields is working at the in Tulsa, and is involved in a three-year term on the Osage Election Board as an Alternate Member. (en)
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