Ramona Sakiestewa

Ramona Sakiestewa (born 1949) is a Hopi tapestry artist and designer based in Santa Fe who has spent fifty years translating ancient Pueblo textile traditions into contemporary art objects of refined beauty. Her woven tapestries draw on Hopi textile patterns, kachina imagery, and the geometric logic of Pueblo ceremonial design, producing works that are simultaneously deeply rooted in tradition and unmistakably contemporary. Her tapestries are held in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution, the Denver Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the White House. Beyond her fine arts practice, Sakiestewa has designed fabric collections for the design firm Knoll, served on the design team for the National Museum of the American Indian, and brought Hopi visual sensibility into a wide range of public and commercial contexts, consistently widening the audience for Indigenous design.