Celebrating Native Artists
The Ohi:yo’ Art Market is a celebration of Native American Resiliency through art and culture. We welcome Native American artists from nations across the United States and Canada to participate in our art show competition and art market.
We further welcome all visitors to experience the creativity and talent of today’s finest Native artists at the market.
2024’s Ohi:yo’ Art Market
2024 was the Ohi:yo’ Art Market’s inaugural year. Nya:wëh to all the participating artists who made this event a success!
Check out the winning artists from the market’s competition below. And read more about our inaugural year here.
2024 Winners
Visit And Explore
Best of Show: Leith Mahkewa
Oneida Nation of the Thames/Hopi/Tewa, Wolf Clan
Cultural Items:
1st place: Leith Mahkewa, Cradleboard #1- Inaugural
2nd place: Leroy Henry, Cayuga-Grand River Territory, Horn
3rd place: Sharon Trudeau, Wikwemikong Band Odawa, MMIW Forget Us Not
Basswood, white ash and raw ride cradleboard. The front of the board displays predominantly white flat beadwork on black cotton velvet with accents of sterling silver plated beads and wampum. The choice to use this colour scheme comes directly from my appreciation for the flat geometrical designs found on the back of board is adorned raised Haudenosaunee beadwork on tanned/smoked deer hide, with various coloured florals, vines in and around.
Jurors Award: David Martin
Pokagon Band of Potawatomi
Simeon Pokagon
Paintings, Drawings, Photography
1st place: David Martin, Star Brothers
2nd place: Bruce Boots, Akwesasne Mohawk, Little People
3rd place: Kenneth T. White III, Dine’h/Navajo, Charging New Treaties
Sculpture:
1st place: Leroy Henry, Cayuga-Grand River Territory, Haudenosaunee Strong
2nd place: Kaysun Tremblay, Kanien’keha’:ka, Kanehsodake, Wisdom in the Water
3rd place: Margaret Jacobs, St. Regis Mohawk Tribe, Old Growth Blueberry
Haudenosaunee Strong
Pottery:
1st place: Brennen Johns, Onondowa’ga, They Cut Across the Sky
2nd place: Cynthia Thomas, Oneida Nation, Exercising Indigenous Rights
3rd place: Cynthia Thomas, Oneida Nation, Kanehelatu’ksla
Basketry:
1st place: Ronnie-Leigh & Stonehorse Goeman, Onondaga Nation/Tonawanda Seneca, Grandfather
2nd place: Penelope S. Minner, Seneca Nation, Born to Shine
Grandfather
Weavings and Textiles:
1st place: Faye Lone, Tonawanda Seneca, Winter Traditions
2nd place: River Webb, Nez Perce, Meskwaki, Gettigawigea
3rd place: Rachel White, Onondaga Nation, Ceremony Trade Cloth
Jewelry
1st place: Jaycee Custer, Diné, Blossom
2nd place: Mickey Sickles, Oneida Nation of The Thames, Silver Arm Bands
3rd place: Christal Ratt, Anishnabe-Mitchikanibikok Inik, Wabikoni
Beadwork/Quillwork
1st place: Kierra Pyke, Mohawk/Akwesasne, Creation
2nd place: Christal Ratt, Anishnabe-Mitchikanibikok Inik, Ayashesh
3rd place: Michael Begay, Navajo & Santo Domingo Pueblo, Bandless Growth
Creation
Innovative Arts:
1st place: Ronnie-Leigh & Stonehorse Goeman, Onondaga Nation/Tonawanda Seneca, Pope
2nd place: Samantha Jacobs, Seneca Nation, Reconnection-Land
3rd place: Trevor Brant, Mohawk, Knowledge
