self-taught and among the very first students at the Santa Fe Indian School during the 1920s, Michael Kabotie was multi-talented in sculpture, painting, printmaking, and metalwork, as well as a writer and poet. In 1979, his book of poems, Migration Tears: Poems About Transitions, was published by the University of California/American Indian Studies. Kabotie was a founding member of Artists Hopid (1973-1978), an organization dedicated to innovative interpretations of traditional Hopi art forms.
from Santa Fe New Mexican: Michael Kabotie, 1942-2009: Swine flu claims Hopi artist
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