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Illustrator:

Michael Chiago


Photograph of Mike Chiago

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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