Red Bud and Wild Onion Time

Minisa Crumbo, Artist of the Year, and Mona 'Koko' Lowe, Elder of the Year

Mvskoke Women's Leadership (MWL) is pleased to announce that you have been selected as the 2017 recipient of the MWL Artist of the Year Award. This award is given to an outstanding Mvskoke woman who preserves Mvskoke culture with significant impact made on the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and has had personal, professional, and leadership achievements and exceptional community involvement.  Your work exemplifies this and we are proud to honor you with this award.

Minisa Crumbo and Yonne Tiger, Professional of the Year

Group of Honorees, MWL 2017

 Ella Barnett, Woman of the Year, and Minisa Crumbo

Greater Tulsa Indian Art Festival, Feb. 10 - 12, 2017

Minisa Crumbo: "Keeper of Legends Artist"

2017 Greater Tulsa Indian Art Festival's 30th Anniversary
February 10-12, 2017
Glenpool Conference Center at Hwy. 75 and 121st Street 
(12205 S. Yukon Ave. Glenpool, OK 74033), 
Phone: (918) 298-2300 | Fax: (918) 688-5734 (toll free): 1-866-442-1846)
Schedule

"Bringing Spirit forth through art..."
Minisa Crumbo is an artist and craftsperson of several disciplines: painting, silversmithing, basketry, potting, as well as quilting and writing. Born in Tulsa, OK in the Year of the Earth Horse, to Lillian Hogue Crumbo and Woodrow Wilson Crumbo, Minisa is Muscogee Creek and Citizen Band Potawatomi.

Visit her booth at the Festival and get a copy of her new book: "Spirit Talk - A Book of Days."

Minisa Crumbo: Keeper of Legends Artist, Feb. 10-12, Tulsa Indian Art Festival

Minisa Crumbo: "Keeper of Legends Artist"

2017 Greater Tulsa Indian Art Festival's 30th Anniversary
February 10-12, 2017
Glenpool Conference Center at Hwy. 75 and 121st Street 
(12205 S. Yukon Ave. Glenpool, OK 74033), 
Phone: (918) 298-2300 | Fax: (918) 688-5734 (toll free): 1-866-442-1846)
Schedule

"Bringing Spirit forth through art..."
Minisa Crumbo is an artist and craftsperson of several disciplines: painting, silversmithing, basketry, potting, as well as quilting and writing. Born in Tulsa, OK in the Year of the Earth Horse, to Lillian Hogue Crumbo and Woodrow Wilson Crumbo, Minisa is Muscogee Creek and Citizen Band Potawatomi.

Visit her booth at the Festival and get a copy of her new book: "Spirit Talk - A Book of Days."

SPIRIT TALK Book Signing, Barnes & Noble, Tulsa, OK, December 17, 2016

SPIRIT Talk Book Signing, Barnes and Noble, Tulsa, OK

Minisa Crumbo and Steve Gerkin

Ann Sartain, Minisa Crumbo, and Barbara Kelley

Leon Russell Tulsa Tribute, Cain's Ballroom, December 15, 2016

Leon Russell Tulsa Tribute @ Cain's Ballroom

Jana Jae's Gallery Southwest, 920 S. Main, Grove, OK/ Dec. 10, 2016 (1 - 4p)

Minisa Crumbo, daughter of famed artist, Woody Crumbo, and awarded teacher Lillian Crumbo will be in Jana Jae’s Gallery Southwest, Grove, OK on December 10. The public is invited to stop in the Gallery located at 920 S. Main in Grove to visit with Minisa from 1 to 4 p.m.

Jana Jae, Minisa Crumbo, Jane Frost and Jim Halsey

Larry Black, Minisa Crumbo, and Mark Ward

Minisa Crumbo, Potawatomi/Muscogee Creek, brings professional artistry from her native childhood home to her present professional practice in the arts of painting, silversmithing, lapidary arts, ceramics, basket making, beadwork, and quilting. She facilitates and presents traditional women's ways and endeavors to work in harmony with the natural and spiritual elements of "Mother Earth and Father Sky-Sun.....that we might truly be alive in a living world."

At 2 p.m. Minisa will give a talk on her latest book, “Spirit Talk’ a book of days. She reminds us that life is always about remembering, for at the core of our remembering lives our sacred nature and the sacredness of all Creation. She will autograph her Spirit Talk book and also her new adult coloring book, “The 13 Moons.” This beautiful book features visions of “New Life” to visions of the “Tree of Life” symbolizing celestial life. Each illustration to be colored is a wonderful reminder of the sacredness of creation. The Gallery is honored to have her original painting of “13 Moons” to share.

Short videos from the 12/10/2016 book signing and studio talk presenting;
... SPIRIT TALK ... A HANDBOOK FOR THE SPIRITUAL WARRIOR
At Jana Jae's Southwest Gallery in Grove, OK

Empowering Women Through Art -- Bacone College, Muskogee, OK, Nov. 29, 2016

Bacone College's Merritt D. Betts Library will host a special reception for the artists featured in the "Empowering Women through Art" exhibit from 6-8 p.m. Nov. 29, 2016. There is no cost to attend and refreshments will be served.

The "Empowering Women through Art" exhibit features the inspiring works of Minisa Crumbo Halsey and Molly Murphy Adams, both multi-talented Native American women.

A talented artist, author, teacher and photojournalist, Halsey's contribution to the "Empowering Women through Art" exhibit includes a selection of hand-made turquoise and silver jewelry and her latest publication "Spirit Talk - A Book of Days."

Molly Murphy Adams' work stems from a combination of traditional feminine arts, both Native and mainstream, with contemporary design and media.

"I overlay these traditional skills and design sensibilities with a contemporary understanding and interest in modern art," she said. Her contributions to the "Empowering Women through Art" exhibit include many beautiful beadwork on fabric pieces.

The exhibit continues during library hours through Dec. 15. For more information, please contact Merritt D. Betts Library Executive Director Faye Davis, davisf@bacone.edu.