Artist

Myra Tso Kaye

born Tuba City, AZ 1961
Media - kaye_myra_tso.jpg - 90043
Originally photographed by Chuck Rosenak. Image is courtesy of the Chuck and Jan Rosenak research material, 1990-1999, in the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Also known as
  • Myra Kaye
  • Myra Tso
Born
Tuba City, Arizona, United States
Active in
  • Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Nationalities
  • American
Biography

Navajo artist Myra Tso Kaye studied art at the University of Northern Arizona, but feels that school only taught her the "scientific" side of her artwork. Kaye believes that the spiritual side came from her home and family: Her grandfather was a medicine man, as are her father and brother; her mother, Faye Tso, is a potter and herbalist. (Chuck and Jan Rosenak, The People Speak: Navajo Folk Art, 1994)