Description
Oil painting on panel board of four female figures with a stylized landscape for the background.
Amber DuBoise-Shepherd
Diné/Navajo (Enrolled), Sac & Fox (Affiliated), Prairie Band Potawatomi (Affiliated)
About the Artist
Amber DuBoise-Shepherd is currently the director’s assistant at the University of Oklahoma School of Visual Arts. She was previously the manager of education and outreach at the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art in Shawnee, Oklahoma. She worked with all ages and provided educational art programming through student tours, both-in person and virtual, art classes and workshops, and outreach programs. Amber has an degree from Seminole State College and received her bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma State University with a minor in business entrepreneurship. Her mixed media pieces and oil paintings reference an illustrative quality. She depicts contemporary Native American narratives based on her family heritage of Navajo (Enrolled), Sac & Fox (Affiliated), and Prairie Band Potawatomi (Affiliated). She has exhibited in over thirty-five exhibitions since graduating from Oklahoma State University in 2016, and curated 3 exhibitions, including the “Tkenagen Mnowabmenagwet: The Beauty of Indigenous Cradleboards” in 2022, with cradleboards from the Museum of The Red River, and two from her own family. Amber was commissioned by the First Americans Museum, in 2020, to create and design an original oil painting that was converted into a large mural that is on display for the public in the FAM gallery. She was commissioned by the Sierra Club Magazine to create the Fall 2023 cover and two digital illustrative works for an article over the Land Back Movement that was sent out nationally. In September of 2023, Amber was awarded The Rising Star Alumni Award at the Oklahoma State University College of Arts & Science’s Hall of Fame ceremony. The Rising Star award is given to previous graduates who have excelled in their careers within 10 years of graduating from OSU.
