Background
Marcus Amerman was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1959 but grew up in the Pacific Northwest.
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Marcus Amerman
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He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. He also studied at the College of Santa Fe (now Santa Fe University of Art and Design), the Institute of American Indian Arts, and the Anthropology Film Center.
Career
He is known for his highly realistic beadwork portraits. Amerman"s brother, Roger Amerman, is also an award-winning beadworker, specialized in traditional southeast designs. Traditionally, Indians embraced new materials with which to create and new ideas to express.
Achievements
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Amerman"s work is in such public collections as the George Gustav Heye Center, the National Museum of the American Indian, the American Museum of Natural History, the Heard Museum, the Portland Art Museum, the Sequoyah National Research Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the Museum of Arts and Design. He is the only artist to have his beadwork featured in Playboy magazine. In 2008, Amerman was a Hauberg Fellow at the Pilchuck Glass School and artist-of-residence there in 2008. He and Tlingit artist Preston Singletary both taught at the school in 2006 as part of Iconoglass.
