
Ms.
Anita Leona Fields
Independent
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Visual Arts
Elected
2025
Anita Fields is a multi-disciplinary artist and citizen of the Osage Nation. She is known for her works which combine clay and textile with Osage knowledge systems. Fields explores the intricacies of cultural influences at the intersections of balance and chaos found within our existence.
Her sculptures have been featured in many exhibitions, including the 2024-2025 The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture, Smithsonian Art Museum, Counterpublic 2023 St. Louis Triennial, St. Louis, Missouri, Form and Relation: Contemporary Native Ceramics, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, the 2018-2020 Hearts of Our People, Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the 2018 Art for A New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950鈥檚 to Now at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and Pottery by American Indian Women at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC.
Her work can be found in several collections, such as the Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian, the Museum of Art and Design, New York City, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and the Heard Museum, Arizona.
Fields is 2017-2023 Tulsa Artist Fellowship alumni. She was named a 2021 National Endowment of the Arts Heritage Fellow and received a 2021 Anonymous Was a Woman award. In 2022 she received a Francis J Greenburger award.
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