Sculpture

White Hawk's sculptures incorporate materials long central to Native artistic practices—glass beads, paint, buckskin—into configurations that challenge conventional definitions and divisions between art and craft, the traditional and contemporary. These works argue against the artificial separation of fine art from Indigenous artistic practices, asserting the aesthetic and conceptual complexity of Native art while acknowledging the ways it has been historically marginalized. Unlike Western sculptural traditions that emphasize individual authorship, White Hawk's pieces emerge through collaboration with family members, friends, and community partners, reflecting Indigenous practices of collective creation that have persisted across generations. Every bead and strand of fringe serves as both a material element and cultural signifier, contributing to sculptures that communicate in visual languages the contemporary art world is still learning to comprehend.