Brent Learned

"Native American artwork is always evolving. As we change, so do our cultures and so does our art. This show is a reflection on all of that."

Brent Learned is an award-winning and collected Native American artist who was born and reared in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. Learned graduated from the University of Kansas with a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts.

He is an artist who draws, paints, and sculpts the Native American Indian in a rustic Impressionistic style. He always has appreciated the heritage and culture of the American Plains Indian. He tries to create artwork to capture the essence, accuracy, and historic authenticity of the American Plains Indian way of life. Although Learned has many different styles, he is typically known for his use of bold, vibrant colors in his depictions of the American Plains Indian.

Learned has a passion for being active in the community. He was one of the curators of the Wintercamp Show at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. Wintercamp was geared toward giving new artists in the community an opportunity to show their work. Most important, this was the first all-Native American show to feature contemporary Oklahoma Native American art. Learned also had had the honor of working with Dale Chihuly's team on the Eleanor Blake Kirkpatrick Tower, Chihuly's tallest installation to date, that resides in the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.