Kay WalkingStick

Kay WalkingStick is a landscape artist born in Syracuse, NY. She is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She earned her BFA from Beaver College (now Arcadia University) in Glenside, PA, and an MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.

She has exhibited her work at institutions including Kalamazoo Institute of Art, MI; Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ; National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC; Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN; Galerie Calumet, Heidelberg, Germany; Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM; Gallery Ami & Kanoko, Osaka, Japan; Cherokee National Museum, Tahlequah, OK; Cairo Biennial, USIA Exhibit, Egypt; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Sierra Nevada Museum. Reno, Nevada; and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

WalkingStick’s work is in the collections of the Georgia State University; Cherokee Heritage Foundation, Tahlequah, OK; Davidson College, NC; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Lang Communications Print Collection, New York City; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Southern Plains Indian Museum, Anadarko, OK; and AT&T, Morristown, NJ.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records

Artist Info


Born

1935

Syracuse, NY

Gender

Female

Nationality

American

Heritage

Native American