DANTE BISS-GRAYSON

Description of Art

Image 1: Oil on Canvas, 2021 - Riding Towards Freedom. Image 2: Osage Orthography Scarf

Artist Biography

Dante Biss-Grayson, Osage Artist and Fashion Designer Sky-Eagle C0llection. I explore new directions in Native American art, and utilize classical methods to explore a modern, and a new contemporary vision of Native Art. I strive to create new artwork that continues to the tradition of Contemporary Native Art, and pushes the boundaries of varying mediums, such as painting, holographic sculpture, poetry, and Fashion Design. I paint, sculpt, write, and design; I try to find the best platform to express and convey a thought and emotion. As a combat veteran with PTSD, I had to find myself again as an artist when I came back from overseas. I spent over 12 years in war zones, and before I deployed, I had studied art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Holland and IAIA, in Santa Fe, N.M. As the apprentice of Earl Biss, my adopted father, was able to delve even further into classical art. Upon return to the States, I started my studio again with the hopes to express the trauma of war, and find a platform to continually express myself, externalize the trauma, and eventually, hopefully help others. As a Fashion Designer, I have always wanted to explore this platform. For me, clothes can empower a person to feel better about themselves. Fashion Design can be a symbol of empowerment, or it can be utilitarian in use, and it can bring awareness to vital issues in Indian Country. For my daily work, my goal was to work for Native Communities. I earned my Masters Degree in Emergency Management and have been able to work with tribes on capability building and community resilience capabilities development. LOCATIONS: Online: www.skyeaglecollection.com. In-Person: Sky-Eagle Collection Fashion House and Fine Art Gallery, 131 Paseo Del Pueblo Norte, Taos, NM, 87529. BRANDS: Owner and Creative Director of the Sky-Eagle Collection, Online and New Shop Open in Taos, NM. Sky-Eagle Fashion House and Fine Art In Development: Wow-Pow Clothing, El Prado Collection, Scout (Cold Weather Gear). QUALIFICATIONS: Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Holland IAIA, Santa Fe, NM Jacksonville State University, Master of Science, EM PROJECTS: 2022 Donation to the Osage Ballet 2022 Currents New Media- Santa Fe NM, Selected Artist 2022 Sky-Eagle Fashion Scholarship (launching in Dec-22) 2022 Santa Fe Film Festival: Baawadan Collective Short Film: R.E.M. Burn 2021 8GEN Warrior's Wool Blanket Design Contest-Winner 2021 Osage Nation Museum Winter Exhibition: Artist and Panelist 2021 Donated a Ribbon Skirt to the Osage Ballet 2021 IAIA Fall 2021 Creative Writing Contest-Winner 2021 Podcasts: Okie Podcast, Native Health AZ, and CafeAye 2021 Colores, NM PBS Spotlight- Artist focus on Veterans and Therapy 2021 Truth or Consequences Film Fest. Associate Producer “Earl Biss Movie” 2021 Exhibition at the Institute of American Indian Studies MMIW Awareness & Action 2021 Exhibition 5 Points Visual Arts Center-MMIW Awareness & Action 2021 Artist on “Killers of the Flower Moon” movie, Directed by M. Scorsese 2021 Baawadan Collective Short Film: R.E.M. Burn 2021 Lily Poetry- Artist 2021 Native Talk Arizona-Interview 2021 Native Oklahoma Magazine-Article 2021 Santa Fe New Mexican Newspaper-Article 2021 Sovereign Santa Fe Art Show 2021 New Mexico Arts, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Poster Artist 2021 “Earl Biss, the Spirit Who Walks Among His People” Associate Producer 2021 “A Smudge for Your Thoughts,” podcast 2021 “The Powerful Image of the Red Hand,” Indian Country Today 2021 “The Powerful Image of the Red Hand,” APTN National News 2021 Featured Artist, Osage Nation Museum 2021 National Congress of the American Indian, Grant Recipient, funds donated towards the “400 Ribbon Skirt Project” 2021 Iceland Arctic Cooperation Network, GEA Youth Engagement 2020 “Spirit Journey” 3d Holographic Sculpture, Grant Recipient x2, Osage Nation Foundation 2020 New Mexico Museum of Art, “Protection” Artist 2020 Museum of New Mexico Foundation - Native Treasures Auction, Artist Participated in the 2020 “Resiliency Lodge-Ribbon Skirt Expose’,” an initiative of the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC), Designer 2020 Osage Nation Museum, “Art From Our Community”2019 Agora Gallery, Chelsea, NY, “In and Out of the Garden” Artist 2020 Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Artist 2019-Current “The Owl,” and Osage Comic, Editor, Blue Turtle Comics 2019 “Gallery Experience” Canuka Ota, Big Rain Gallery, Pawhuksa, O.K. 2019 Artfix Daily, “The War Within” 2019 “Voices From the Drum” Artist 2018 First American Art Magazine (FAAM), “Dante Biss-Grayson- War Experience”