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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Debora, post: 389479, member: 1476&quot;]This is the information I posted in link.&nbsp; Think it tells you everything you need to know about the artist.&nbsp; If you need to confirm signature, why don&#039;t you send your photograph to the curator at the museum below which has his work in its collection?</p><p><br /></p><p>Debora</p><p><br /></p><p>Lakota Sioux artist, Ray Winters, to return to Kiva for presentation on July 4 LA JUNTA - Thanks to the generosity of Ron Kibler of Rocky Mountain Frames and Trophies (La Junta and Gunnison), the Koshare Indian Museum will be hosting on Sunday, July 4, from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m., Ray Winters, a Lakota artist from Fort Yates, ND, as the featured artist in the ninth annual &quot;Kiva Presents...&quot; artist series.Kibler&#039;s support will enable Winters to stay for an extended amount of time. Winters, Fighting Bear/Mahto Wicha Kiza, was born at the Standing Rock Reservation, ND.Ray was introduced to oil painting at the age of 12.He attended high school and college programs at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. Ray&#039;s extensive training in advanced oil disciplines includes study at the Medici Institute in Florence, Italy, Rhode Island School of Design, Antioch University and College of Santa Fe.He is a multifaceted artist, as comfortable working with architects to design a cultural center, as he is painting his landscapes, fashioning traditional regalia or working on his parfleche creations. He credits his grandmother for his success as an artist.She encouraged him to draw and create.They were poor, but she would find the money to buy him art supplies.In 1968 when he attended the Institute of American Indian Art, he was overwhelmed with the access to materials.The Institute was a springboard.Not only was he able to continue making traditional outfits, crafts and paint, he took Indian studies and learned to interpret exhibits and work. Ray has exhibited in Colorado, South Dakota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Arkansas, Florida and Oklahoma.He has many works in private collections and commissions pieces.Acclaim in the form of awards and peer recognition continues to flow his way, and his creative approach to art appeals to art connoisseurs from many counties around the world.While being a talented and versatile artist, Ray also lends his expertise in other areas.He has worked as museum technician at the Sioux Indian Museum, Rapid City, SD, has catalogued artifacts at Mesa Verde National Park and Theodore Roosevelt National Park and worked as an art consultant, teacher and judge. Winters is a long-time friend of the museum, having exhibited during the 1980s.Winters, during an earlier visit to the Kiva this year, remembers being impressed with the level of interest in the arts the community of La Junta possessed. &quot;People knew more about art and artists in La Junta than many larger (metropolitan) cities did.It was something I always remember about this area.&quot; The museum has a number of Winters&#039; paintings in its collection and received five more pieces of art in May of 2003 from the estate of the late Leonard von Bibra Sutton who was a United States Supreme Court Chief Justice. Winters will be on hand to give a demonstration of his work from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, July 4.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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