Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.

I had a teacher's degree and a degree in Oriental Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts. I thought I was going to India to study but all of a sudden, I had a career in music. It really surprised me.

You have to leave room in life to dream.

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.

The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.