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Holly Wilson (born 1968) is a Native American artist from Oklahoma. She is an enrolled member of the Delaware Nation and is of Cherokee descent. Wilson lives and works in Mustang, Oklahoma. [1] According to Wilson, she used to call herself a sculptor, a clay artist, photographer, among many others before setting for the term "artist."
Multi-media artist Holly Wilson creates figures as her storytellers, conveying stories of the sacred and the precious, capturing moments of our day, vulnerabilities, and strengths. The stories are, at one time, both representations of family history and personal experiences.
May 23, 2022 · Holly Wilson is a multimedia artist whose artwork appears on the cover of the May–June 2022 issue of World Literature Today. Whether working with bronzes, paint, encaustic, photography, glass, or clay, she captures stories of both the sacred and the precious.
The exhibition’s title, Holly Wilson: Upturned Flower that Travels echoes the personal and narrative themes she engages. Marrying her English name with the translation of her Native name, Wilson highlights her perspective as both white and indigenous.
Oct 1, 2018 · Wilson’s (Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma/Cherokee) exhibition, On Turtle’s Back, draws its title from the Delaware Nation’s creation story: rains poured incessantly until the People asked their Creator for safety, and they were instructed to climb onto a hill.
Multi-media artist Holly Wilson creates figures which serve as her storytellers to the world, conveying stories of the sacred and the precious, capturing moments of our day, our vulnerabilities and our strengths.
Holly Wilson Contemporary Multi-Media Artist. Her figures serve as her storytellers to the world, conveying stories of the sacred and the precious, capturing moments of our day, our vulnerabilities and our strengths. The stories are at one time both representation of family history as well as personal experiences.
