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Illustration, Venetian Plaster
Dimensions: 65.3' x 12.9'
Project Agency: First Americans Museum
Artwork Location: 659 First Americans Blvd
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73129

The Artwork

The exterior of the Origins Theater was designed to resemble a Caddo pot. Jeri’s design references the sky, earth, and water through interacting layers. This project was prepared with contributions by Marwin Begaye (Navajo) and Starr Hardridge (Muscogee [Creek]). Self-taught, Redcorn is internationally recognized for reviving Caddo pottery.

A project of the Oklahoma Arts Council’s Art in Public Places program in cooperation with Native American Cultural and Educational Authority.

The Artist

In 1987, Jeri was the founding director of the Oklahoma City Red Earth Festival that won an international award in tourism. Coming full circle, in 2008 she won a first place award for Traditional Pottery at Red Earth. Jeri’s career in promoting art, culture and history includes the role of co-founder of Jacobson House. She has served on the Caddo Nation Tribal Council and the Caddo Heritage Museum Board. Jeri is Caddo and Potawatomi. Zhi-Bi-Quah is her tribal name, meaning River Woman, appropriate as she gathers clay at the river.

Jeri has lectured at the Smithsonian, the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University, Illinois University and other colleges and universities. In November, her story was shown in “Arkansas’s FIRST PEOPLE” on AETN, Arkansas. The documentary is the companion series to WGBH/PBS: “We Shall Remain”.

The Smithsonian, the Oklahoma Museum of History, Spiro Mounds and the Texas State Natural History Museum permanently display her work. Individuals as varied as Don Henley of The Eagles and President David Boren, University of Oklahoma, and Justice Yvonne Kauger are collectors.