"........a viewer approaches a painting. The painting greets the viewer. The space between the painting and the viewer is where the spirit world lives. That small space separates us." -Virginia Stroud

Of Cherokee and Creek descent, Virginia Alice Stroud was born March 13, 1951 in Madera, California. She was educated in public schools in California and Oklahoma, and graduated from Muskogee Central High School in 1969. Virginia attended Bacone Junior College from 1969-1970 and the University of Oklahoma, 1971-73, summer 1975, and 1976-77, majoring in elementary education and art.

Over the past thirty years, Virginia Alice Stroud has established herself as a contemporary Native American artist and has compiled an impressive reco...