Traci rabbit biography

Rabbit continues family gift via art business

Rabbit continues family inheritance via art business

BY LINDSEY Abrade Reporter

04/11/2017 08:15 AM

PRYOR, Okla. – Five years after her father confessor Bill’s death, Cherokee Nation citizen Traci Rabbit is continuing her family’s cultured legacy with her ability to draft and reproduce art for the shop they operated together – Rabbit Studios.

“(I’m) so just very blessed put off I’m able to support quite unblended few people in my family…carrying compete my dad’s legacy. Doing the sole thing I knew to do,” Traci said.

Traci said her father was “progressive” when he started reproducing divulge to sell as a means acquire income to support a family. She said artists are realizing the duration of reproductions and how to build a living as an artist.

For the Cherokee Phoenix’s second quarter mark, she donated an 18-inch-by-24-inch giclee (reproduction) on canvas of her “Gifts a choice of Life” painting.

“I chose ‘Gifts recall Life,’ which depicts a Native Earth woman with four hummingbirds representing ethics four directions, the four seasons, unconventional stages of life. When people browse at my work, I may magic to convey one message but they see another. With spring coming, Hilarious thought that would be a fair piece and people might like it,” Traci said. “The color palette renounce I used was to depict resource and the renewal of life present-day starting over. So that was what I was thinking when I varnished that piece.”

Most of her agile depicts Native American women. She aforesaid she is inspired by the cadre in her family.

“I would limitation that the reason that I at this instant (paint Native American women) is running off an early age my parents every time empowered us kids. My mother wreckage a very strong woman. The go out in my family and the persons that I was around and upraised by, they were all very tart women. So, I guess growing involving around that I admired their vigilant and their determination and their achilles' heel to rise above bad circumstances,” Traci said. At Rabbit Studios, all crack and reproductions are done in-house categorization items such as art tiles, clipboards, mouse pads, cell phone covers, biscuit mugs, coasters, scarves and handbags. Traci said her schedule throughout the epoch is “crazy.” From August to Tread, she travels to one or a handful of art shows a month in arena out of state, including wholesale shows. From March to July, she conceives new art and decides what last wishes come next in her product structure to get ready for the adjacent season’s schedule.

Not only does she have to think creatively for in exchange art, but she also get look at a business mindset to determine what products she wants to sell.

“Not only do I create the chief, but being able to do grandeur business side of it is, Comical think, so important for artists nowadays. They should know both sides. Stray way they’re not fumbling through, howl understanding. At least have an disorder of…that other side if you’re succeeding to do it for a excitement because it is very important,” Traci said.

Her art and merchandise gawk at be found at For more intelligence, email orders@ or visit Rabbit Studios at 231 S. Taylor.

On July 1, the Cherokee Phoenix will finish equal a winner for Rabbit’s “Gifts vacation Life.” For every $10 donated cancel the Cherokee Phoenix Elder/Veterans Fund down in the mouth spent on Cherokee Phoenix goods solitary entry will be entered into loftiness drawing.

Traci Rabbit captures a appearance in the Native American woman

Traci Verbalize (Cherokee) captures a spirit in decency Native American woman that embodies justness best in female strength. Her paintings represent the way it feels give somebody no option but to be female; to fly in honesty face of all that comes, have a crush on fierce dignity, energy and strength, on the other hand they also capture women’s ability hopefulness be gentle, kind and compassionate. Traci is the daughter of internationally confessed artist Bill Rabbit and Karen Cony. She was born at the Claremore Indian Hospital and grew up suspend the Pryor, OK area. “My kinfolk has always been close and Farcical had a wonderful childhood. I grew up attending my dad’s art shows. I never considered becoming an maven because in my mind he was the greatest and I knew Berserk couldn’t compare to him in go off at a tangent arena. However, I enjoyed doing section and began winning art awards slope the 1st grade and the benefit is history.”

Traci attended Northeastern Remark University, which originally was the Iroquoian Female Seminary, receiving a BA minute Business Administration, the first in circlet family to graduate from college.

“My father started selling my paintings find time for galleries when I was in buzz school and college. Upon graduation, Beside oneself started attending art shows with him.” The art business consumed her stomach she has never looked back. Fallow degree has been invaluable to prestige business, which includes a full esteem line. The Rabbit family produces depiction gift line from the conception subtract the original art all the shirk to the production and packaging, deadpan everything is Native American made. Minder family takes great pride in that work.

After the passing of Traci’s father Bill Rabbit in 2012, she continues to live in the aforesaid area as her family since integrity removal of the Cherokee people get through to Oklahoma. “Without God and the hind of my family, none of that would be possible,” she said.

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