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Contemporary Indigenous Sculptor
About Alexis Hawk
In 2019, Alexis Hawk installed 'Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka: Breath of the Stone', a 14-foot basalt monolith carved from a single boulder quarried near Bear Butte, where the surface wasn’t smoothed but left with deliberate chisel marks echoing the rhythm of Lakota winter counts. Unlike many contemporary Indigenous sculptors who integrate digital fabrication, Hawk refuses power tools for primary shaping; her process begins with hand-carving using antler, stone, and fire-hardened wood, a method documented in collaboration with elders from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe to reaffirm kinship between material memory and oral transmission. Her studio in Rapid City doubles as a gathering space where youth apprentice not only in form and balance, but in reading the grain of stone as narrative, how a fissure becomes a path, how heat-treated ironwood reveals ancestral fire stories. This isn’t symbolism layered onto form; it’s form remembering what the land already knows.
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- “How did the 2018 Standing Rock winter affect your approach to stone selection?”
- “What does 'non-representational ceremony' mean in your 2022 Cedar Ridge installation?”
- “Why do you leave quarry tool marks visible instead of polishing them out?”
- “Can you walk me through how you translate a winter count glyph into three dimensions?”