1. Kay WalkingStick
Tina Hinrichs

2. Charlie Hill

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

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

5. 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

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

7. 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."

8. Talking Leaves: Enough
“I am the grandmother. I am Kay WalkingStick. Of the people, Cherokee!”