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Diana Beach-Stamper
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Diana Beach is a member of the Chickamauga Cherokee, White River Band. She
is very proud of her Cherokee heritage and has devoted most of her life to
promoting Native American art and culture.
Diana Beach showed an aptitude for drawing and painting at the age of two.
Her parents encouraged her natural talent by supplying art materials and lessons.
By her sixth birthday Diana Beach knew that she wanted to be an artist. She won many
first place and grand prize awards throughout her elementary and secondary school years.
Diana Beach majored in Fine Art at North Texas State University, in Denton, Texas, with
a minor in psychology.
With over twenty-two years professional experience Diana Beach has received
over one hundred fifty major awards including twenty Grand and seven Peoples
Choice awards. Diana Beach founded and organized the Seven Cherokee Women Legends Show,
which traveled to museums and galleries throughout the U.S. from January
1988 to January 1990. She is listed in Indian Artists of Oklahoma,
Who’s Who of the American Indian Contemporaries.
The Museum of the Cherokee Indian (Cherokee, NC) and Holy Rosary
Indian Museum (Pine Ridge, SD), both own pieces as part of their permanent collections.
Diana Beach has lectured to groups and organizations on subjects ranging
from Art to Tribal Comparisons, and has been a juror for a number
of fine arts and competitions.
If asked what she is most proud of, Diana Beach will tell you her daughters Amber
and Talana. At a young age, they are also exhibiting a talent for art,
both having won several awards for their work. And so the brush is passed...
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