Michael Kabotie was born on September 3, 1942 on the Hopi Indian Reservation in northeastern Arizona. He grew up in the village of Shungopavi and attended school on the reservation until the Hopi... Read full biography
Michael Kabotie was born on September 3, 1942 on the Hopi Indian Reservation in northeastern Arizona. He grew up in the village of Shungopavi and attended school on the reservation until the Hopi high school was closed. He graduated from Haskell Indian School in Lawrence, Kansas in 1961. While in... Read full biography
Michael Kabotie was born on September 3, 1942 on the Hopi Indian Reservation in northeastern Arizona. He grew up in the village of Shungopavi and attended school on the reservation until the Hopi high school was closed. He graduated from Haskell Indian School in Lawrence, Kansas in 1961. While in his junior year there he was invited to spend the summer at the Southwest Indian Art Project at the University of Arizona. Participants included Fritz Scholder, Helen Hardin, Charles Loloma and Joe... Read full biography
Michael Kabotie was born on September 3, 1942 on the Hopi Indian Reservation in northeastern Arizona. He grew up in the village of Shungopavi and attended school on the reservation until the Hopi high school was closed. He graduated from Haskell Indian School in Lawrence, Kansas in 1961. While in his junior year there he was invited to spend the summer at the Southwest Indian Art Project at the University of Arizona. Participants included Fritz Scholder, Helen Hardin, Charles Loloma and Joe Hererra, who became a life long friend and his primary artist mentor. After high school, Michael attended the University of Arizona, studying engineering. After dropping out of college he held a one-man show at the Heard Museum, and his work was on the... Read full biography
Michael Kabotie was born on September 3, 1942 on the Hopi Indian Reservation in northeastern Arizona. He grew up in the village of Shungopavi and attended school on the reservation until the Hopi high school was closed. He graduated from Haskell Indian School in Lawrence, Kansas in 1961. While in his junior year there he was invited to spend the summer at the Southwest Indian Art Project at the University of Arizona. Participants included Fritz Scholder, Helen Hardin, Charles Loloma and Joe Hererra, who became a life long friend and his primary artist mentor. After high school, Michael attended the University of Arizona, studying engineering. After dropping out of college he held a one-man show at the Heard Museum, and his work was on the cover of Arizona Highways magazine. In 1967 Michael underwent his Hopi manhood initiation into the Wuwutsim Society and was given... Read full biography
Michael Kabotie - Artist Info
About Michael Kabotie: Books
Books & Publications (11)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Visions and Voices: Native American Painting from the Philboork Museum of Art
1996
Wyckoff, Lydia (Ed)
304 pages (color)
Native American Artists
1995
Reno, Dawn E.
230 pages
Shared Visions Native American Painters & Sculptors (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Archuleta, M/R R Strickland
110 pages (color)
The American West The Modern Vision
1984
Broder, Patricia Janis
345 pages (color)
The Sweet Grass Lives On: Fifty Contemporary North American Indian Artists
1980
Highwater, Jamake
192 pages (color)
The Sweetgrass Lives On Fifty Contemporary North American Indian Artists
1980
Highwater, Jamake
192 pages (color)
Southwest Indian Painting: A Changing Art
1980
Tanner, Clara Lee
477 pages (color)
Hopi Painting The World of the Hopi
1978
Broder, Patricia Janis
319 pages (color)
American Indian Painters: A Biographical Directory