Phyllis Fife

Phyllis Fife (born 1948) is a Muscogee Creek painter and educator from Oklahoma.

Phyllis Fife

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Born
Dustin, Oklahoma
NationalityMuscogee (Creek) Nation, American
EducationEd.D. University of Arkansas
Known forNative American education, fashion design
StyleBacone school
AwardsMvskoke Hall of Fame
2013 inductee

Personal life and education

Fife was born near Dustin, Oklahoma to James Fife and Carmen Griffin Fife. She belongs to the Raccoon clan and Tukvpvtce Tribal Town.[1] She was first educated in a rural school before enrolling in the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe from 1963 until 1966. She studied under Howard Warshaw at the University of California, Santa Barbara and transferred to the University of Oklahoma in 1970. At OU, she earned her BFA degree in 1973. She then earned her Master of Education degree at Northeastern State University and her Doctor of Education degree from the University of Arkansas.[1]

Fife has three daughters.[1]

Art career

Fife was a fashion designer and painter, who exhibited in Oklahoma and nationalwide.[2] Along with her sisters Sharon Fife Mouss, Sandy Fife Wilson and Jimmie Carole Fife Stewart, who are also visual artists, she launched the Fife Collection, a fashion design company that incorporated Southeastern Woodland aesthetics and was based in Henryetta, Oklahoma.[1]

Education career

Phyllis Fife has taught at Northeastern Oklahoma State University (NSU) and Southeastern Oklahoma State University.[2] She served as the director of the Center for Tribal Studies at NSU from 2003[1] to 2014 and coordinated NSU's Symposium of the American Indian for many years in Tahlequah.

Honors

In 2013, Fife was inducted into the Muscogee (Creek) Nation's Muskoke Hall of Fame.[1]

References
  1. "2013 Mvskoke Hall Of Fame Inducts Jacobs, Thompson, and Fife". Tribal Town Radio. Muscogee Creek Nation. October 23, 2013.
  2. Jules Heller; Nancy G. Heller (19 December 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5.
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