CURRENT MISSION To create art, make contacts with indigenous cutures, work to help ensure their survival, celebrate life through art and ceremony, collect and create stories to pass on. ABOUT ME I am an artist, teacher and storyteller. I am of European and Cherokee descent,a member of the Cherokee tribe. I am a painter, sculptor, and maskmaker, and show at American Indian art shows around the USA as well as galleries. I am also involved in traditional spiritual ways and ceremony, and work to preserve traditional Indigenous culture, through participating in and organizing conferences worldwide. I have traveled extensively, and take several months each year to travel. PHILOSOPHY I think we are here to celebrate life and love, and to realize and live the truth that resides in our hearts and minds.