Welcome to Artist Dustin Mater's Website

Artist Statement

“My work is a juxtaposition of colors, tones, materials & historical splendor. And to tell stories of strength, determination, success and the glory within."

Dustin Illetewahke Mater ‘Curriculum vitae’

Commissioned Work
Chickasaw Nation: Lowak Shoppla, poster collection, animation. 2009
Spider Brings Fire (Illustrations) 2009
Chickasaw Nation Student composers: Music for String Quartet CD(Cover art layout) 2010
Indios: By Linda Hogan (Cover Art) 2011
Chickasaw Nation Medical Center (etched glass, shell carvings, paintings)2011,12,13,15
Chickasaw Nation, Tribal offices (etched glass, shell carvings, ledger art, paintings)2011,13,14,15,17 Pendleton Blankets (Legendary Collection) 2012
Chickasaw Coloring Book (Illustrations) 2012
Tobachi: Chickasaw Nation Young Composers Recording Project CD (Cover art layout) 2013
Mad Hatters’ Review Magazine (Gallery art) 2013
Circus Injuns, stage play, Toronto, Canada (set design, costume design, storyboard art)2014-2017 Studies in American Indian Literatures (Cover art) 2014
National Park Services (Permanent Collection) 2015
Burn: By Allison Hedge Cole (Art) 2016
Chickasaw Nation Legislature (Triptych painting) 2017
United States Air Force (Heraldry patch for 137th SEC OPS) 2018
World Literature Today (Art) 2019
Chickasaw Nation Wellness Center (Mural) 2021
Mahota Blankets (artist collection blanket)2021

Lowak Shoppla CD (Album art)2022
Apollo Chamber Players, “Moonstrike” CD (album art, ledger portraits of musicians) 2022

Vanderbilt University Law school (12 large ledger portraits.

Selected Exhibitions & Shows
Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, Washington D.C. (Permanent Collection) 2014
SEASAM (Southeastern Arts Show & Market) 2010-2023
Cherokee art market, 2022, 2023
"Santa Fe Indian Market", Santa Fe, NM Aug. 2016-2021
Red Earth, Oklahoma City, OK 2010 & 2014
Santa Fe Days, Addison, TX 2011
Artesian Fest, Sulphur, OK 2014-2024
"New Identities in Chickasaw Art", Oklahoma City, OK Dec. 13, 2010 to Jan. 2, 2011 "Monothon",Oklahoma City, OK September 2011
"Chikasha Poya"Smithsonian Museum, Washington D.C. Nov. 2011, August 2014
“Dustin Mater Exhibit”, Davis, OK Nov. 2012 to March 2013
"7th Annual Love of Ledger Art", Norman, OK February to March 2014
"6 Anniverskully", Oklahoma City, OK November 2014
"Five Civilized Tribes Museum's Rock Your Mocs Fundraiser Exhibit", Muskogee, OK Oct-Nov 2014 "Winter Market", Smithsonian Museum, Washington D.C. Dec. 2014, 2015
"Five Civilized Tribes Museum's Trail of Tears Exhibit" Mar. 2016, Muskogee, OK
Brisco Museum "Yanauana Indian Market", San Antonio, TX November 2018
“Visual Voices touring Exhibit", 12 locations 2018- 2021
“ This Land Calls us home: indigenous relationships with Southeastern Homelands”, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, GA November 2023-2025
“Collective Wisdom touring exhibit”, 2022-2025
“Roots of the Cedar Tree”, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN Sept.-Dec.2023

Awards
SEASAM (Southeastern Arts Show & Market)
2010: 1st place awards in two categories, 2nd place awards in two categories 2011: 2nd place awards in two categories, 3rd place awards in two categories 2012: 2nd place awards in one category, 3rd place awards in two categories 2013: 3rd place award in one category
2014: 2nd place award in one category
2015: 2nd place award in one category, 3rd place award in one category 2019: 1st place awards in one category
2021: 1st place awards in one category
ARTESIAN
2015: 1st place award in one category
2016: 3rd place award in one category
SANTA FE INDIAN MARKET
2016: 1st in one category
TE ATA FISHER CHICKASAW NATION EMPLOYEE ART SHOW
2011: Best in Show & 1st place awards in three categories

MVSKOKE ART MARKET

2024: 2nd place award for innovaition