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DANA TIGER

I did my assignment on Dana Tiger!

Dana Tiger is a working artist today and what makes her artwork native is that her primary focus is painting native American women in both traditional and contemporary settings.

Dana's work always reflects her involvement with the community, especially Native Americans.

Dana Tiger realizes her natural strength and courage of women in her native American ancestry.

Dana Tiger likes to use acrylic paints, watercolors, and gouche.

A little background about Dana Tiger is that in 1967, Dana's father died of an accidental gunshot wound when she was only 5 years old. In 1990, Dana's brother was murdered and in 1992, Dana's only remaining sibling had tested positive for HIV. After all of this, Dana didnt discover her true love for art until the age of 24. Which is when she really started to follow her fathers passion of art.

Dana is a member of the Muscogee (creek) nation and is of Cherokee descent. Her father, Jerome Tiger was a well known artist who had his own artistic ability and did not have any art classes that helped him with his well known paintings and drawings; Dana then turned her life toward art as a way to get to know her father.

Dana is still painting today, although she is currently fighting her battle with Parkinsons Disease.

SITES: www.artatam.com/dtiger/n-dt003.html www.cherokeewestern.com/artgallery3.htm www.youtube.com/?v=bltnPL40N4o

By: Barbara Tetting