Mahlija Florendo (Yurok, Siletz, Wasco, and Hupa Tribes)

Ink Pen on Paper

This year’s artwork is Dentalium Woman Makes Medicine

"The medicine women is from the lower Klamath Basin Tribes. I designed this piece to bring strong healing medicine to you while you devote and contribute your work to the advancement of Indigenous education. This art in it's self is a prayer for you. The medicine women dances with her basket full of medicine to heal. This piece includes different designs from the lower Klamath Basin Tribes, and dentalium with is used as regalia in our peoples' dances. "

Mahlija Florendo is an alumni of the University of Oregon. Malija currently continues to practice her artists talents with her business, Indigenous Womxn Art.