04 Aug Sean Chandler
Fellowship Artist
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Sean Chandler
Cultural Affiliation: Aaniiih [Gros Ventre]
Chandler is an enrolled member of the Aaniiih (Gros Ventre) Nation and President of Aaniiih Nakoda College located on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana. Chandler acquired a B.A. in Art in 1997, M.A. in Native American Studies in 2003 from Montana State University-Bozeman, and Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership from the University of Montana in 2014. Since, Chandler has devoted more time to his art while fulfilling his duties as tribal college president. He has always been involved in art, starting at an early age when his father taught him the traditional arts of his ancestors, including hide and tipi painting. Integrating those early teachings, Chandler voices his own style to communicate the contemporary life he lives.
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My artwork can convey several definitions of Indigenous life created by personal experiences, as well as definitions created by those with misunderstanding—purposeful or not, of Indigenous Lifeways. Many have come to believe the misinformation as truth, as a result, some of us have now have become outsiders or practitioners of that misinformation. My art can contain stories within stories, controlled by a so-called objective source. There is search for wholeness that probably may never exist, but pieces of envy, humor, dependency, independency, loneliness, sarcasm, identity, cultural genocide and other empty spaces make up the whole.
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Mediums
Pencil | Chalk | Oil Stick | Mixed Media
Homebase
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Interesting Fact
Self-taught