Description
It is traditional photography — 100% unmanipulated and without editing.
Materials
Framed photography.
Category
Photography and Digital Art
Brenda Kay Bradford
Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Cherokee Nation
About the Artist
Brenda Bradford is a proud citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nation and has Cherokee ancestry. Residing in Baron, Oklahoma, Bradford is a first-generation college graduate who has devoted most of her professional career to working to preserve Native cultural history.
Bradford was awarded the first NEH grant of its kind in Oklahoma, which allowed her to create a regional event bringing together forty-nine institutions and organizations across Oklahoma and Arkansas. This initiative provided free preservation workshops, digitization of family artifacts, and free archival workshops for local communities to help protect family artifacts. This program aligns with Bradford's belief that understanding one’s heritage, culture, and history helps to strengthen struggling families. She sees family heritage as the glue that holds the family together, making it essential to “share the knowledge” and/or teach basic techniques that can be used at home to help preserve family treasures and heirlooms. Her dedication led to her selection as one of only ten international professionals and the only American chosen for a leadership training program to address natural or man-made disasters on a global scale sponsored at The Hague, Netherlands.
Beyond her preservation work, Bradford is an internationally award-winning published nature photographer. She also raises critically endangered heritage-breed chickens, has been a beekeeper for decades, and produces her own blend of organic herbal teas. Her happy place is creating art, hanging out with her grandbaby Max and four-legged companion Hotvle, playing in the dirt, and walking barefoot in the rain.
