Gerald Dawavendewa

Gerald Dawavendewa is an author and illustrator. He contributed paintings for the illustrations to Rabbit Shoots the Sun: A Hopi Folktale, retold by writer Terri Fields.

Mr. Dawavendewa grew up in the Hopi village of Munqapi, Arizona and the Cherokee woods of Oklahoma. He has worked with the Arizona State Museum as an exhibit specialist and interned with the National Museum of American Indian, Smithsonian Institute. He is the author and illustrator of The Butterfly Dance and Codex Taawa: Exploring the Cosmos of the Hopi, while his Hopi mural is part of the permanent collection of the Arizona State Museum. Gerald is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe and lives in Tucson, Arizona.