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PAHPONEE
Born 1958 in Rural Prairie, MO; lives in Sidney, NE

PAHPONEE (SNOW WOMAN) IS A NATIVE AMERICAN visual artist who specializes in creating vessels in both clay and bronze. Her career has spanned over four decades and her works have sold worldwide. Her work in clay includes refined traditional shapes often designed with textured and deep-carved surfaces, or fully burnished surfaces finished with a satin-like appearance. Her limited-edition bronze vessels are created by using the Lost Wax Casting method of bronze making, utilizing vivid color layering for the Patina. Both mediums are complementary together not only by form, but also by the detailed hand-carved animal images over the surface of each vessel. Pahponee was born in Rural Prairie, Missouri in 1958. Her Native American heritage includes Powhatan, Potawatomi and Kickapoo ancestry. Pahponee is an enrolled member of her Kickapoo tribe, which is located in Kansas. She has exhibited throughout the United States at venues such as The Smithsonian Craft Show, Santa Fe Indian Market and in museums such as The National Museum of the American Indian, The Heard Museum, The Museum of Arts & Design and The Philbrook Museum of Art. In 1995, Pahponee was an Artist in Residence at The Eiteljorg Museum of Native Americans and Western Art and received an Artist Fellowship Award from The Southwestern Association of Indian Arts. In 1999, she was awarded Indian Artist of the Year by The Indian Arts & Crafts Association. Pahponee presently creates her art and resides with her husband, children and grandchildren in Sidney, Nebraska.

Gallery Representation
Bronze Smith Fine Art Gallery and Foundry, Prescott Valley, AZ
King Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ