Kay WalkingStick
| Kay WalkingStick | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 2, 1935 Syracuse, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | MFA 1975 Pratt Institute BFA 1959 Beaver College PhD 2011 Doctor of Humane Letters, honorary, Arcadia University |
| Known for | Painting, mixed media, drawing |
| Awards | National Endowment of the Arts; Joan Mitchell Foundation award; Women's Caucus for Art National Honor award for Achievement in the Arts Distinguished Artist Award from the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art; Lee Krasner award for lifetime achievement of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation |
| Website | kaywalkingstick |
Kay WalkingStick (born March 2, 1935) is an American landscape artist. Her later landscape paintings, executed in oil paint on wood panels often include patterns based on American Indian rugs, pottery and other artifacts.
Her works are in the collections of many universities and museums, like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Israel Museum, the National Museum of Canada and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. She is an author and was a professor in the art department at Cornell University where she taught painting and drawing. She has been accepted into many artists residency programs which gave her time away from teaching duties to paint. WalkingStick is the winner of many awards and in 1995 was included in H.W. Janson's "History of Art", a standard textbook used by university art departments.
Kay WalkingStick was born in Syracuse, New York, on March 2, 1935, the daughter of S. Ralph WalkingStick and Emma McKaig WalkingStick. Emma was of Scottish-Irish heritage, and Kay's father, Ralph, was a member of the Cherokee Nation who wrote and spoke the Cherokee language. Ralph was born in the Cherokee Nation capital of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and attended Dartmouth College. Kay's parents had four other children, and as they raised their family Ralph WalkingStick worked in the oil fields as a geologist. He became an alcoholic. While pregnant with Kay, her mother left Oklahoma with their other children and moved to Syracuse, New York. WalkingStick grew up in Syracuse without having experienced the cultural heritage of her Cherokee ancestors. Her siblings, who spent some of their childhood in Oklahoma, had a better understanding of their father's Cherokee traditions. Her mother told her "Indian stories" and talked about her handsome father. The family was proud to be Native Americans. Kay liked to color and draw from a young age. A number of other members of her family were artists.
WalkingStick married R. Michael Echols in 1959, and they had two children, Michael David Echols and Erica WalkingStick Echols Lowry. Michael Echols died in 1989. She is now married to artist Dirk Bach. They married in November 2013 and live in Easton, Pennsylvania.
WalkingStick received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1959 from Beaver College, Glenside, Pennsylvania. Ten years later she received the Danforth Foundation Graduate Fellowship for Women, and attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She received her Master of Fine Arts in 1975. Both Beaver College and Pratt Institute offered modern art programs.
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