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George Blake is a distinguished artist (sculptor, jewelry maker, canoe builder, and traditional regalia maker). He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Davis, where he was a student of George Longfish. He also studied ceramics with Arneson Gilhooley. In 1991 he won a National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Award. He has exhibited in California, as well as nationally and internationally (in Czechoslavakia, Latvia, England). In 2004, he went to China as a juror for two art exhibitions. His work is part of a new exhibition that just opened at the Museum of Arts and Design, in New York. The exhibit is titled: "Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 2 / Contemporary Native North American Art from the West, Northwest & Pacific" (September 22, 2005 - January 22, 2006).

While he is widely recognized for his work as an artist, it is less known that he has been the head elder in California in the Indian Shaker faith, and for about 10 years now, he has been a traveling spiritual leader in Indian Shaker services.