Darby Raymond-Overstreet is an award winning digital artist and printmaker. Born in Tuba City Arizona, and raised in Flagstaff Arizona, she is a proud member of the Navajo Nation. She received her B.A.s in Psychology and Studio Art and graduated with Honors from Dartmouth College in 2016. She currently resides in Chimayó, NM and through her work she studies, works with and creates Navajo/Diné pattern designs that materialize through portraits, landscapes, and abstract forms. Her work is heavily inspired by and derived from Traditional Diné/Navajo textiles, with particular interest in pieces woven in the late 1800’s-1950’s.
“I am a Diné/Navajo artist inspired by the strength and resilience of the generations that came before me and by the lands that have been home to my people for countless generations. As a multimedia artist specializing in digital collage and printmaking, I work with and create Diné pattern designs that materialize through portraits, landscapes, and abstract forms. Through my practice of incorporating historic weaving in my digital works, I acknowledge the strength and resilience that my ancestors maintained in the face of immense adversity brought on by a shifting world propelled by colonial ideals and values. I aim to highlight how their legacies empower current generations to confront today’s challenges for a better future. My work addresses themes of identity and belonging, and examines the interdependent relationship that exists between land, art, and people.“
DARBY RAYMOND-OVERSTREET, ARTIST STATEMENT
Education
Dartmouth College, Hanover NH
Undergraduate Degree
September 2012 – June 2016
Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
Exhibition
Land Back: A Tiny Gallery Takeover in Lenapehoking – Tiny Gallery Erwin Park Nov. 2024
Past As Prologue: a Historical Aknowledgment – National Academy of Design Oct, 2024
Group Exhibition: Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Dine Textiles – Museum of Indian Arts and Culture July 2023
Group Exhibition: Tú Eres Tú – Cristian Anthony Vallejo Memorial Gallery Sept. 2023
Group Exhibition: Shaped by the Loom: Bard College Feb 2023
Group Exhibition: Gallery Hozho – Feb 2022
Group Exhibition: Tú Eres Tú – Cristian Anthony Vallejo Memorial Gallery Sept. 2021
Group Exhibition: Art is the Seed : Contemporary Native American Female Art – Tuscon Desert Art Museum – 2020 Jan 10th- May 31st
Group Exhibition: IM Edge Contemporary Gallery – Santa Fe Community Convention Center 2019
Group Exhibition: The Force is with our People – Museum of Northern Arizona 2019
Group Exhibition: Breaking the Silence: #MMIW
#MeToo -2019
Group Show: DNA at Gold Crush Gallery – 2018
Solo Exhibition: Intern Exhibition in the Barrows Rotunda at the Hopkins Center for the Arts- 2017
Two Person Exhibition: Perspectives on Design Exhibition Jaffe Friede Gallery- 2017
Group Exhibition: Digital Arts Expo at Dartmouth- 2016
Group Exhibition: Senior Show at Hopkins Center for the Arts- 2016
Fellowships & Awards
Second Place: Class III: 2-D Art Division H – Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair + Market 2025
Third Place: Innovative Arts – Eiteljorg Indian Market 2023
Honorable Mention Class III Division D Category 1404 – SWAIA Indian Market 2022
Helen Cox Kersting Award – Eiteljorg Indian Market 2019
First Place: Mixed Media : Paintings, Drawings, Graphics & Photography – Eiteljorg Indian Market 2019
Third Place: Mixed Media : Paintings, Drawings, Graphics & Photography – Eiteljorg Indian Market 2019
First Peoples Fund: Artist in Business Leadership Fellow 2019
Semi Finalist: Eighth Generation Wool Blanket Design Contest 2019
Best of Division F: Paintings, Drawings, Graphics, & Photography – SWAIA Indian Market 2018
First Place Class III Division D Category 1602 – SWAIA Indian Market 2018
Top Techie Award – SWAIA Indian Market 2018
Honorable Mention Class III, Division D Category 1402- SWAIA Indian Market 2018
Artist of Distinction: Cover Artist Winner for Creative Native – Center for Native American Youth 2018
Perspectives on Design Award – Dartmouth College 2016
Marcus Heiman-Martin Rosenthal ‘56 Achievement Award in the Creative Arts – Dartmouth College 2016
Class of 1960 Office of Residential Life Purchase
Publications
Amelia Arvesen, “Darby Raymond-Overstreet, Vol. 23 Traditional Diné textiles influence her artwork,” Honing Her Craft, April 6th 2021
Rumpl, “Meet RAD Artist Darby Raymond-Overstreet,” Rumpl Artist Division, August 19th 2020
Anthony Thibodeau, “The Force is With our People,”Plateau magazine, Volume 11, Number 1, 2020
Michael Abatemarco, “Digital weaving: Darby Raymond-Overstreet’s layered textures” Pasatiempo, August 9th 2019
Elisabeth Sawyer, “Woven into the Fabric of Diné” First Peoples Fund News, Friday June 21st 2019
Jennifer Levin “News of Art”, Santa Fe New Mexican, Friday April 12th 2019
Megan Bennet, “Honoring those who ‘wove us’”, Albuquerque Journal North, Friday August 17th 2018