Fields, Anita – “Bird Woman” 28″ Tall Clay Figure
$ 4,000.00
Anita Fields is one of the great intellectual and creative forces in contemporary Native art. In 2025 she just received the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Award and in 2021 the National Endowment for the Arts award. This piece is made from clay and is entitled, “Bird Woman“. The figure is a woman with birds circling her head and a textured surface. Anita said about this piece:
“This dress is all about texture. There are all the various stamps I made to create the small circles, flowers, twigs, and other shapes, which encompass the surface of the piece. The result is a piece which, like material, you just want to touch. The idea for this piece is the woman is surrounded by nature. The plants, and earth are her dress and the birds of the air circle her head like a crown. The dress represents the female. The dresses convey my attitudes toward the strength of women and how native peoples show remarkable resourcefulness and adaptability toward their environment. The clothing Indian women created shows great pride, dignity, and hope in a culture facing insurmountable odds.” Anita Fields
The piece is dramatic in person and signed on the bottom, “Anita Fields”. The last photo is one of her looking at the piece in the gallery.
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Anita Fields is one of the great intellectual and creative forces in contemporary Native art. In 2025 she just received the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Award and in 2021 the National Endowment for the Arts award. This piece is made from clay and is entitled, “Bird Woman“. The figure is a woman with birds circling her head and a textured surface. Anita said about this piece:
“This dress is all about texture. There are all the various stamps I made to create the small circles, flowers, twigs, and other shapes, which encompass the surface of the piece. The result is a piece which, like material, you just want to touch. The idea for this piece is the woman is surrounded by nature. The plants, and earth are her dress and the birds of the air circle her head like a crown. The dress represents the female. The dresses convey my attitudes toward the strength of women and how native peoples show remarkable resourcefulness and adaptability toward their environment. The clothing Indian women created shows great pride, dignity, and hope in a culture facing insurmountable odds.” Anita Fields
The piece is dramatic in person and signed on the bottom, “Anita Fields”. The last photo is one of her looking at the piece in the gallery.
“I have a choice…There is a time for each of us to step up and be apart of the culture.” Anita recognizes there is a powerful connection that is made for her through cultural teachings. [Her] hand formed ceramic works led to references found in the Osage genesis narratives.” Anita Fields, Fluent Generations
Corn Woman. She has more traditional clothing. The hands are worn for ceremony and it’s an ancient design. It’s a photo transfer on linen. Corn for us and important for women. It’s asking for a nice harvest and a good home for my children. She is wearing Osage mocassions.
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Fields, Anita (b. 1951)
Anita Fields
Anita Fields is a fascinating potter who works with non-traditional clay to create abstracted images of traditional clothing and artifacts along with imagery intended to honor all women, particularly those of Indian descent. Anita was influenced by traditional Osage ribbon work, clothing, and blankets. She also studied the objects and ceremonial dress of other tribes. The personal and emotional elements in these textile designs led Anita to use them symbolically in clay, translating the personality of these vestments into her work. About one of her recent series, Native American Dresses, which are coil-and slab-built installations, Anita says: "The dresses convey my attitudes toward the strength of women and how native peoples show remarkable resourcefulness and adaptability toward their environment. The clothing Indian women created shows great pride, dignity, and hope in a culture facing insurmountable odds." Over the years Anita has spent a good part of her life traveling and collecting seemingly insignificant items. From these items, these memories, she creates original stamps. Anita has won numerous awards for her pottery and her work can be found in the permanent collection of museums such as The Heard Museum, the Denver Art Museum and others. She was featured in the book, “Pottery by American Indian Women”. Most recently she won “Best of Pottery” at the 2012 Heard Indian Market.Click Here to See New Works by Anita Fields!