Dan Namingha, Ascending Kachinas

Dan Namingha is an Hopi/Tewa Pueblo artist born in 1950 in Keams Canyon, Arizona. He is Dextra Quotskuyva's son, and a great-great-grandson of Nampeyo. He currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His works have been exhibited at the Museum of Northern Arizona, the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution, the Sundance Institute, the Wheelwright Museum, the New Mexico Museum of Art, the Heard Museum, and numerous foreign museums, including the British Royal Collection in London. He has received an honorary doctorate from the Institute of American Indian Arts and the 2016 'Living Treasure' award from the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. Namingha studied at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.

His son Arlo Namingha is also a well-known sculptor, and his younger son Michael Namingha works in digital art. All three artists exhibit at the Namingha's Santa Fe gallery, Niman Fine Art. (https://namingha.com/)