Fan Earrings

Designed for Četáŋ Ská by Dyani White Hawk

Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) is a visual artist and independent curator based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. White Hawk earned a MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2011) and BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico (2008). She served as Gallery Director and Curator for the All My Relations Gallery in Minneapolis from 2011-2015.

Her works are in the permanent collections of the Walker Art Center, Museum of Modern Art NYC, Whitney Museum of American Art, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Minneapolis Institute of Art, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Art, and Tweed Museum of Art, as well as other public and private collections.

Dyani White Hawk also designs jewelry for her brand Četáŋ Ská (pronounced chey-tahn ska). Četáŋ Ská, Lakota for white hawk, grew out of the artist’s reflections on her existence within and commitment to her community. White Hawk recognizes that fine art is financially inaccessible to most. But as with her fine art practice, which is guided by a recognition of placehood, relationship and a grateful dedication to these, this line of jewelry was created to increase access to the themes and concepts represented in her fine art work.

Materials: Acrylic, sterling silver findings