FRUSTRATED ARTIST

Today we are going to have a look at an Australian artist Lisa Marie Bellear born in Melbourne 2 May 1961 passed away on the 5th of July 2006.  Lisa was an indigenous woman Goernpil from the   Noonuccal  people of  Minjerribah  ( Stradbroke Island ),  Queensland .  Lisa was a poet, Photographer, Spokesperson dramatist, activist, comedian, and broadcaster Lisa had an Uncle his name was Bob Belleair Australia first Aboriginal Judge, and there was also Sol Bellear who worked in and to find the Aboriginal Housing Corporation in Redfern in 1972 Lisa was adopted into a white family as a baby and they told her she had Polynesian blood. As an adult, she explored her Aboriginal roots. Bellear died unexpectedly at her home in Melbourne. She was 45 years old. Women's Liberation https://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poem/item/785

Today's artist/painter is a woman named Nampeyo she lived in the Hopi Reservation in Arizona. She was a Hopi Yewa Potter  Her Tewa name was also spelt  Num-pa-yu , meaning "snake that does not bite". Nampeyo used ancient technics for firing and designs from ancient Hopi pottery from the 15th century, Sikyatki ruins.  Her artwork is in National Museums in America, Arizona, the Peabody Museum and Havard University.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_American_Art_Museum Nampeyo was born on First Mesa in the village of Hano, also known as Tewa Village which is primarily made up of descendants of the Tewa people from Northern New Mexico who fled west to Hopi lands about 1702 for protection from the Spanish after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.  Her mother, White Corn was Tewa; her father Quootsva, from nearby Walpi, was a member of the Snake Clan. According to tradition, Nampeyo was born into her mother's Tewa Corn Clan. She had three older brothers, Tom Polacc