Rewriting Art History

Dyani White Hawk brings a Native perspective to once-whitewashed corners of the art world. 

- ADRIENNE GAFFNEY

Dyani, you’re an artist, and one of these years you’re going to believe me,” Dyani White Hawk’s mother would say as she saw her daughter constantly drawing and crafting in her youth. “Creating has just always been my favorite thing to do,” says the multidisciplinary visual artist. “I remember being young and going to a museum and seeing an abstract painting. I had no idea what it was; I just remember seeing it and craving it, and being like, ‘Whatever that is, I want to do that.’”