Water Bird Arts
Beth Anderson
Cherokee Artist
Elmira, New York
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Beth Anderson is a contemporary visual artist splitting her time between Upstate NY and North Carolina. A Cherokee Nation citizen, her work is influenced by culture, love of materials and handmade objects, as well as her relationship with nature. She works in small metals, illustration, glass, beadwork, and basketry.
FEATURED WORK
2027 “ON NATIVE LAND” CALENDAR ARTIST
Bio: A Cherokee Nation citizen, Beth Anderson’s work is influenced by culture, love of materials, and her relationship with nature. Her focus is in small metals, illustration, glass, and beadwork.
What does “On Native Land” mean to you?: For Indigenous individuals, connection to Land is invaluable. Plants and Animals are our relatives. They permeate our stories, feature in ceremony, and provide food, medicine, fiber, and decoration. The anchor us to Land, to place, to roots, to home. When we take care of them, they take care of us.
This is a composition, created by the artist, for this calendar from her watercolor and pen and ink illustrations from dual language (Cherokee and English) children’s books that she illustrated.
This is a composition, created by the artist, for this calendar of her beadwork. Portraits of Plant and Animal relatives are a favorite subject of hers.
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