This photograph of watercolor artist-illustrator Mike Chiago
was taken at the Indian Market in Santa Fe, August 2012.
- Michael Chiago was born in 1943 in
Kohate Village on the Tohono O'odham reservation.
- Currently he lives in the village
of North Komelik, 35 miles south of the city of Casa Grande, Arizona.
- Michael taught himself how to paint
with watercolors.
- He has been painting Tohono O'odham
ceremonies and cultural traditions for more than 40 years.
- Michael also loves to paint the mountains
and the clouds of his Sonoran Desert home.
- The illustrations slide show
shares Michael's paintings from our children's picture book Sing Down the Rain.
- To see other Southwest American Indian
art, begin at the Heard Museum's Home Page.
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