KAY WALKINGSTICK

Tina Hinrichs

Charlie Hill

Talking Leaves: You’re an Indian? I should have known with those cheekbones!

Talking Leaves: You’re an Indian? I thought you were a Jewish girl from Queens who changed her name.

Description of Artwork

Ethnic Humor Issues address

ancestry and stereotyping

Juxtaposition: placing different words and images side by side

Transposition: placing images in a new context

Parody: recognizable cultural icons or images

Satire: mocking of artists feeling towards the subject

Irony: images used to contradict meanings

Talking Leaves: You're not an Indian. You weren't born on a reservation!

Artist Statement

To express native and non-native shared identity

To paint who she is as an artist and a Native American

“I would hope that these paintings encourage the viewer to see our shared humanity in all of its gritty, frightening, awkward, sexy, funny and beautiful commonality."

Talking Leaves: Enough

“I am the grandmother. I am Kay WalkingStick. Of the people, Cherokee!”