From the Five Civilized Tribes Museum's Art Under the Oaks Competitive Art Show in Muskogee, Oklahoma earlier this month.

Partial detail of the Huichol Indian technique of beadwork that I dd on the buffalo skull for the 40' x 30' mixed-media piece, Yvnvsv-Pvnkv (Buffalo Dance), which won 1st Place in the Diverse Art Forms category at the 3rd Annual Mvskoke Art Market this past weekend.

Come see us tomorrow Saturday April 20th at 10:00 AM (Booth 105) for the opening day of the 3rd Annual Mvskoke Art Market at the River Spirit Casino Resort here in Tulsa, Oklahoma on the Muscogee Creek Nation Reservation.
Admission is free. The market is from 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM.

Johnnie Diacon (Mvskoke)
Yvnvsv-Pvnkv (Buffalo Dance), 2024
Mixed-media: acrylic, bone, glass beads, on textured gesso wood panel
40' x 30'

Come see us this weekend in Tulsa at the Mvskoke Art Market, Booth 105, River Spirit Casino Resort on the Muscogee Creek Nation Reservation.

The beadwork on the 40' x 30' Buffalo Dance mixed-media piece is done. Ready for this weekend's Mvskoke Art Market in Tulsa.

The beadwork on the buffalo skull so far. More work to go before it is finished.

The beadwork so far this morning on the 40' x 30' mixed-media Buffalo Dance piece. I'm going to really pour it on this weekend. Upcoming exhibit.

Starting the beadwork on the other eye of the buffalo skull. The entire skull will eventually be beaded.

The beadwork The beadwork progress so far.

Working on beading the miniature buffalo figure tonight. The whole skull will eventually be beaded using the Huichol beadwork technique.

Designer Brian Johnson has written three exclusive articles for hyperallergic, exploring the intersection between Indigenous identity and graphic design.

Read his first article below, & tune in to his virtual conversation with Hyperallergic tomorrow.
hyperallergic.com/878361/designi…

I'm out in my studio and back at beading again this morning.

Congratulations to the 28th Annual ADG Awards Half-Hour Single-Camera Series Winner:

Reservation Dogs: 'Deer Lady' 🏆
Production Designer: Brandon Tonner-Connolly

I am honored to be part of the Thlopthlocco Cultural Preservation presentation “Vnokeckv” being held in Okemah, OK at the Cyrstal Theater February 14th at 6:00 PM.

Official statement from Principal Chief David Hill rejecting participation in the Governor’s task force on tribal jurisdiction.

Johnnie Diacon (Mvskoke)
Haloneske (Fishing Medicine), 2024
Acrylic on stretched canvas
60' x 48'

Johnnie Diacon (Mvskoke)
Mekkvlke Entopv (Chief's Arbor), 2023
Acrylic on stretched canvas
16' x 20'

Collective Telling: Southern Rooted Perspectives on Place, History + Emergence
Collective Telling
January 12 -- February 17, 2024
Echo Contemporary Art
Atlanta, GA

The final 2' x 3' miniature is done for the year, and it has already sold. This one is number 22 out of 100 of the miniature stretched canvases. Definitely more of them to come in 2024.