Roy Boney Jr.
Roy Boney Jr. | |
|---|---|
| ᎧᏂᎦ ᎪᎳᎭ | |
 Boney in 2006 | |
| Born | December 1, 1978 Locust Grove, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Nationality | Cherokee Nation |
| Education | BFA Oklahoma State University, MA University of Arkansas |
| Known for | Comics, animation, drawing, painting |
Roy Boney Jr. (ᎧᏂᎦ ᎪᎳᎭ, born December 1, 1978) is a Cherokee comic artist, fine artist, computer animator and language preservationist from Locust Grove, Oklahoma, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and a hereditary member of the Deer Clan.[1] Boney was named a Cherokee National Treasure on 29 August 2024.[2]
Background
[edit]Roy Boney Jr. grew up speaking the Cherokee language. He studied at Oklahoma State University, earning a BFA in Graphic Design. He received his Master of Arts degree at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where he was a member of the Sequoyah Research Center team and received the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Fellowship.[3]
Cherokee language
[edit]Boney works as the manager of the Cherokee Nation language program,[4] and previously was as a language media specialist for the Cherokee Nation.[5]
Visual arts
[edit]With Matthew Shepherd, Boney created the graphic novel series, Dead Eyes Open, published by Slave Labor Graphics. From a comic background, Boney ventured into fine art drawing and painting. His fine art debut in 2006 yielded the Grand Prize at the Cherokee Heritage Center's Trail of Tears art show[6] and inclusion in the traveling exhibit, Frybread and Roses: The Art of Native American Labor. Several of Boney's paintings are in the permanent collection of the Sequoyah National Research Center.
Media arts
[edit]Boney collaborated with Joseph L. Erb at American Indian Resource Center, Inc., teaching animation to Muscogee Creek and Cherokee Children. Their Native language animated films have received numerous awards.[7] Erb and Boney developed an iPhone application for Cherokee language text messaging and are developing Cherokee language social network and video games.[8]
Writing
[edit]Boney is a regular contributor to Indian Country Today Media Network and First American Art Magazine.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Rossman, Megan. "Graphic Content." Oklahoma Today Magazine. July/August 2012.
- ^ "Cherokee Nation announces 2024 Cherokee National Treasures". Tahlequah Daily Press. 2024-09-03. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
- ^ "Boney Enters Trail of Tears Art Show." Sequoyah Research Center. 21 April 2006 (retrieved 5 Nov 2009)
- ^ Sitek, Zuzanna (July 11, 2019). "Cherokee Tribes Say Native Language is in State of Emergency". KUAF.
- ^ Staff. "Texas donor gives computers to CNEC." Cherokee Phoenix. (retrieved 5 Nov 2009)
- ^ "Trail of Tears Art Show and Sale." Southwestern Art. 1 July 2006 (retrieved 5 Nov 2009, through Highbeam Research)
- ^ King, Patty Jo. "Studying abroad, Native style." Indian Country Today. 25 Oct 2009 (retrieved 5 Nov 2009)
- ^ Proposal for the creation of RezWorld 3D video game to teach Cherokee. Archived 2011-07-14 at the Wayback Machine (retrieved 5 Nov 2009)