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Museum visitors on Saturday, April 28, 2012, will have an opportunity to meet artist Michael Chas Williams and enjoy his art. Michael creates drawings in pen and ink, pastels, and colored pen and ink. In addition to portraits of modern and historical Americans Indians, Michael also creates portraits of artists and musicians. His training as a professional architect is apparent in his detailed pictures of buildings.
Michael’s heritage is the Pickard camp of the Wichita people. The Wichita are from the central and eastern part of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas and the western part of Arkansas and Louisiana. Wichita Kansas was one of the major ceremonial centers for his people.
Michael has been displaying his work at art shows since the 1970s. Some of the important Indian art shows in southern California where you may have seen his work include those at the Southwest Museum, the Autry National Center, the Museum of Man in San Diego, and the Southern California Indian Center in Fountain Valley. The Southern California Indian Center is a Native American organization that puts on many pow wows and gatherings in addition to assisting Native people who have relocated from Native lands. Michael has been a regular at Antelope Valley Indian Museum events since 1994. He owned the Michael Chas Williams Studio (Tedetskasade) for 39 years. This is a fine art studio specializing in architecture and American Indian-themed subjects.
Michael served in 82nd Airborne Division from 1970 to 1973 and was the Division artist in addition to his other responsibilities. He received a degree in architecture from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1978. He is currently a resident of Long Beach, California.
Annual Celebration
The museum hosts an annual celebration the first weekend in October.
For information, call the museum: 661-946-3055 |
