Seeds Art Market, Philadelphia, PA (2026)

04/05/2026

Yvette White’s abstract paintings convey the vibrancy of nature and movement, combining geometric and organic abstraction with impressionistic tendencies. She also works in digital art, ceramics, and photography, among other mediums. Yvette draws from her personal struggles and strengths, touching on such subjects as the intergenerational trauma carried by descendants of residential school survivors; anxiety and depression; domestic violence; substance abuse; and grief.
Yvette holds a fine arts diploma from St. Lawrence College (through the Iohahiio Adult Education Center) and a bachelor’s in studio art from SUNY Potsdam. She has exhibited in shows with the Native North American Traveling College (NNATC) and placed third in the annual Akwesasne Art Wars in 2018. In 2022, she received a second-place award in the Akwesasne Art Market and juried show and in the Adirondack Experience at Blue Mountain Lake juried show in the annual Abanaki Mohawk Art Market. In 2023, she earned a Juror’s Choice Award at the Akwesasne Art Market and juried show.

04/03/2026

Kristin Gentry grew up in Oklahoma in a family of woodcarvers, painters, seamstresses, and poets. She’s a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Her earliest memories are of napping under tables at art fairs and festivals as her mother and grandparents sold their work. She pursued art as an undergraduate and taught elementary school art before earning a master’s degree in Native American leadership and launching a career as an independent artist and curator. She is particularly interested in ancestral seed-saving and has been active in establishing community gardens in indigenous communities. She also incorporates ecology and nature imagery into her pattern-based 2D visual art, for which she received the 2022 SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market 1st Place in relief printmaking.
Kristin lives in Oklahoma City with her daughter Jewell Shooting Star. Among other curatorial projects, she produces IndigiPopX, the first Indigenous pop culture convention. She started making jewelry using non-traditional materials and processes, like laser-cut acrylic and cedarwood, because it allows her to set a modest price point. This is very important to her practice so that her work is available to a larger demographic interested in learning their tribal culture-—while well worth it, she says, most Native jewelry demands such intensely skilled labor and expensive materials that prices are often out of reach for Native buyers. She creates designs from her tribal culture that are diamond-shaped or geometrical, or incorporate floral pattern and pollinator imagery as well as traditional moundbuilder designs.

03/31/2026

Reuben IronHorse-Kent is the second of four sons. His mother taught him beadwork when he was young, and he later taught himself to sew, making his own ribbon shirts and other clothing. He began making raku pottery in his 30s, as an undergraduate student at the Institute for American Indian Arts, where he later returned for an MFA in creative writing. Reuben is an enrolled member of the Iowa(y) Tribe of Northeastern Kansas and Southeastern Nebraska, with familial ties to the Otoe-Missouria and Kickapoo tribes, as well as French and Hispanic heritage.
Primarily known for his ceramic works in the Japanese raku and Oneota traditions, he is also a painter and continues to create beadwork. He uses commercial as well as hand-dug river clay, processing it with mica. Turning to his background in fiber arts and beadwork, he embellishes his Night Dancer figures with feathers, beads, and embroidery thread. His ceramic work can be seen at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is included in the textbook, Hands in Clay: An Introduction to Ceramics, edited by Charlotte F. Speight and John Toki. Reuben received the 2017 Oscar Howe Memorial Award for Best Abstract Painting.

03/28/2026

Joeseph Arnoux is enrolled in the Piikani (Blackfeet Nation) and a descendant of the Spokane Tribe of Indians (Sp’q’n’iʔ). A multidisciplinary artist now living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Joeseph grew up in the Midwest and found community in BMX freestyle cycling during his tumultuous teenager years. Now, he has developed WARPONYBMX, the first Native BMX brand identity and community making space for physical and mental health. WARPONYBMX hats are for Native riders everywhere, from every tribe, of all ages and genders. As WARPONY grows, Joeseph will introduce additional merch like T-shirts, baseball caps, and stickers, and he eventually hopes to produce BMX parts and start a formal youth mentorship program.
As an artist, educator, and youth advocate, Joeseph has built capacity in the local region and beyond, collaborating with Intercultural Leadership Institute, Portland Public Schools, Gonzaga University, New Mexico Community Capital, and CABQ Arts & Culture Department. In 2022 he received the Johnson Leighton Artist of the Year Award from Northwest Native Development Fund. He holds an associate of fine arts degree from the Institute of American Indian Arts; his art practice includes illustration, design, printing, painting, murals, and jewelry.

03/27/2026

Cherokee Doublewall basket as sculpture, this basket is titled “Meltdown” and is very contemporary. It uses commercial reed, commercially dyed reed, acrylic puff paint, and silicone phone charger cord holders.

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Lisa LaRue-Baker brings a contemporary spirit to double walled basketry. She keeps the inside of the basket traditional and expresses herself with unusual designs and materials on the outside. She uses upcycled material in her twined bags, including remnants of locally handspun llama wool and pieces of silk saris that she orders from a women’s collective in India. Lisa also works in embellished digital collage, painting and building upon the surfaces of vintage photographs of Native figures; the medium recalls her background as a graphic artist in the days of pasteup who learned computer-aided design on the first Apple computers.
Lisa learned basketry from Anna Sixkiller, one of her clan mothers and a Cherokee Nation master basket maker. She worked for many years at the Cherokee Nation Cultural Resource Center in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and was later director of language, history and culture for the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma. She has taught hundreds of children to make baskets, cornhusk dolls, traditional clothing, and jewelry. She owns the 785 Arts studio and gallery in Topeka and founded The DoPiKa Project, a citywide land acknowledgement program that teaches the Indigenous history of Topeka and promotes local Indigenous artists. Her work is in the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery (the oldest art collection in Kansas) and numerous private collections.

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03/26/2026

Leona Bia has been weaving for 37 years and comes from a weaving family. She’s known for her tapestries featuring Yei figures, Eye Dazzlers, and Chief Blanket designs. She has shown at SWAIA Indian Market, the Heard Museum Indian Fair, and We Are the Seeds Santa Fe. She lives in a rural area of the Navajo Nation, where she and her family keep horses, and sheep. In addition to commercially sourced wool, she uses churro, a brown sheep wool, which she spins herself. She uses natural plant dyes, including brown onion skin and Navajo tea plant, as well as acid and aniline dyes to create a range of earth tones. The fulltime weaver works at her loom for up to eight hours a day. She says the act of weaving keeps her spiritually balanced and pushes out negativity. Many of her tools were passed down to her from her mother and grandmother.

Leona also makes jewelry using sterling silver and copper, and stones including turquoise, pink conch shell, and orange spiny oyster. Her lightweight earrings, rings, and other pieces feature stamp designs and resemble vintage Navajo jewelry from the late 1800s and early 1900s.

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12/28/2025

Glen Hill Jr. builds custom hollow-body guitars by hand, tailored for modern performers and inspired by vintage construction honed by luthiers over centuries. He fell in love with the art of luthiery after many years playing guitar and slowly learning how to fix the parts of his instruments that wore out from use, and since 2015 has been working to make building guitars and playing music his sole source of income through his brand, SonnyBoy Guitars. He uses maple and black walnut he gathers from the Adirondacks, not far from his home in Akwesasne. His guitars are included in the permanent collections of the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum and the Adirondack Experience.

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12/23/2025

Traditional Lakota background design x Traditional Lithuanian symbols for land, sky, wind, sun, and moon, representing two sides of artist Charlotte Easterling’s heritage.

Spring / Wétu / Pavasaris
Summer / Blokétu / Vasara
Autumn / Ptanyetu / Ruduo
Winter / Waniyetu / Žiema

8 x 10 matted prints

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12/23/2025

More about Whoosh from the artist:

“This piece won in 2017 The National Congress for the American Indian Art Contest Award. Leah is in her fancy shawl, dance style regalia. While she danced, a strong wind, and rain storm appeared that caused objects to fly in the air, tents to topple over, and sent people scrambling in a desperate run for cover. However, Leah stayed steadfast, strong and statuesque as if her every step was rooted into the Earth and it would take a much more powerful storm to affect her dance style, steps or concentration. Iridescent ribbon colors from her fancy shawl, blew in a North Easterly direction as if her shawl’s ribbons were mimicking the colors of the wind.”

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12/14/2025

“A young Mohawk looks seriously into his future. Unburdened as a third generation from residential school trauma and embracing his traditional Kaniehkehaka - Mohawk roots, he is strengthened by speaking Kaniehkeha - Mohawk language, actively living an Haudenosaunee Longhouse lifestyle. While standing among invasive weeds, he’s aware of the past’s challenges, but looks into the future with confidence and resilience.”

11 x 14 matted

By Marjorie Kaniehtonkie

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