PAIN Broken Skulls is a ledger art painting* and is one of 12 pieces in Pain to Power, a digital art series that intimately chronicles the journey my twin sister and I endured as survivors of child sex trafficking. The red stripes reference both head…
THE CANYON Canyon Break is a tribute to my nomadic ancestors—the Kiowa and Apache—whose journeys stretched across vast landscapes of the Americas. Oral histories speak of traveling as far north as “where the white bear was,” referring to the polar bear in regions as distant…
THE CANYON In the Canyon is my reinterpretation of Camille Corot’s Hagar in the Wilderness. Hagar’s story unfolds in Genesis 16 and 21 – first when she flees Sarai, and later when she is cast out with her son, Ishmael. In both moments of despair,…
INDIGENOUS PLANET This work is one of four pieces in Indigenous Planet, a digital art series inspired by the Four Seasons—one of the seven teachings of the Native American Medicine Wheel. Through this series, I portray the seasons of my life—Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter.…
INDIGENOUS PLANET This work is one of four pieces in Indigenous Planet, a digital art series inspired by the Four Seasons—one of the seven teachings of the Native American Medicine Wheel. Through this series, I portray the seasons of my life—Spring, Summer, Fall, and the…
INDIGENOUS PLANET This work is one of four pieces in Indigenous Planet, a digital art series inspired by the Four Seasons—one of the seven teachings of the Native American Medicine Wheel. Through this series, I portray the seasons of my life—Spring, Summer, Fall, and the…
INDIGENOUS PLANET This work is one of four pieces in Indigenous Planet, a digital art series inspired by the Four Seasons—one of the seven teachings of the Native American Medicine Wheel. Through this series, I portray the seasons of my life—Spring, Summer, Fall, and the…
2D ANIMATION https://kiowajan.art/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Native-Women_Jan-Iverson.mp4 The #notinvisible Stop the Violence against Native American Women 2D animation by artist Kiowa Jan powerfully depicts an Indigenous woman with a red handprint across her mouth – a symbol of the MMIWGT2S movement addressing the crisis of Murdered and Missing Indigenous…