Sandy Fife Wilson

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sandy Fife Wilson
Occupation	Educator
Date Of Birth	Sep 6, 1950(1950-09-06)
Age	74
Birthplace	Dustin
Country	United States
Birth City	Oklahoma
Horoscope	Virgo

Sandy Fife Wilson Biography

Sandy Fife Wilson is one of the most popular and richest Educator who was born on September 6, 1950 in Dustin, Oklahoma, United States.

Sandy Fife Wilson (born 1950) is a Muscogee (Creek) art educator, fashion designer and artist. After graduating from the Institute of American Indian Arts and Northeastern Oklahoma State University, she became an art teacher, first working in the public schools of Dewey, Oklahoma. When Josephine Wapp retired as the textile instructor at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Wilson was hired to teach the design courses. After three years, in 1979, she returned to Oklahoma and taught at Chilocco Indian School until it closed and then worked in the Morris Public School system until her retirement in 2009.

As a student, Wilson had participated in several showings of her work, including a demonstration at the Wichita Art Museum and her selection to participate as an artist in 1969 at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair. After having also shown work in Oklahoma and Virginia, in 1972, Wilson placed first in the contemporary textile category at the Scottsdale National Indian Arts Exhibition. In 1976, she co-founded with her sisters Phyllis and Sharon, the Fife Collection, Inc., which focused on fashion design and incorporated traditional motifs and techniques from the Southeastern Woodlands peoples. These included Cherokee fingerweaving, Delaware appliqué, Muscogee themes and designs from pottery and artifacts, as well as Seminole patchwork designs, presented in contemporary garments, adorned with beadwork, embroidery, and ribbonwork.

Sandy Fife Wilson Net Worth

Sandy Fife Wilson is one of the richest Educator from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sandy Fife Wilson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Sandy Fife was born in 1950 in Dustin, Oklahoma to Carmen (née Griffin) and James Fife. She grew up on her grandfather’s allotment which sits on the border of the Hughes County-Okfuskee County line. The youngest of six children, she came from a long line of artists and teachers. Her grandfather was a wood and stone carver, her father drew with colored pencils and chalks, and from the time she was ten years old, her mother, who was a teacher, taught her fingerweaving. Fife attended Graham High School in Weleetka, Oklahoma and then went on to further her studies at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico from 1965 to 1969. At the institute, she studied with world-renowned artists and her courses included painting with Neil Parsons (Blackfeet) and Fritz Scholder (Luiseño), printmaking with Seymour Tubis, and traditional design with Josephine Wapp (Comanche). In 1969, Fife begang her university studies at the College of Santa Fe, but in 1970, she transferred to Northeastern Oklahoma State University, graduating in 1973 with a bachelor’s degree in art and finishing her graduate education there in 1978.

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In 2007, Wilson returned to the classroom, to study basketweaving, flute making, Muscogee hymns, pottery making and shell carving at the College of the Muscogee Nation, in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. She incorporated these skills into her classrooms and after her retirement presented demonstrations at the Northeastern State University Center for Tribal Studies. Her later work focuses on traditional split-cane Creek baskets, finger-woven apparel, and shell carvings. Among the many awards she has won in her career, in 1995 Wilson won the Grand Heritage Award of the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in Muskogee, Oklahoma and in 2016 placed 2nd in the traditional objects category of the Santa Fe Indian Market.

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Sayed Ranked on the list of most popular Educator. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Sandy Fife Wilson celebrates birthday on September 6 of every year.