The Bio of Dahveed Kneeshack Born on the south side of Chicago 3rd generation slave free of African American ,Irish, Seminole Indian ,Caucasian and black foot Indian dissent . A multi medium artist and natural drawer from the age of five. from the age of 15 – 18 I live on a Navajo reservation in white hall Michigan. the later three years working as the assistant craft director, there I learned basket weaving, wood carving, leather working, and bead work. I use water soluble oil paint which works like oil but dries like acrylic. In this fashion I am able to apply three dimensional objects to the canvas. As a practicing shaman I attend native Lakota sweat lodges, I’m also versed in several spiritual practices. As an artist I love to draw but at the same time painting has release an innate feeling that I have to express. because of my native experiences and steady training my work reflects the journeys that I have gone through as a native mixed heritage American, living in an urban environment. Working with a host of independent stores and collective artist such as burning moon, Brilliantly Mad magazine beloved spiritual emporium, In 2005 I dedicated my art and media skills to the public in order to establish a sociological experience of the spiritual through Art. Since 2006 I started to developing an on-line clientele in residential cities such as Chicago, Texas, Atlanta, New York ,and San Francisco. during 2007 and /currently continuing to show my art while building relations with the artist collective in the Chicago.

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