In celebration of Women’s History Month, The Coyote Caller is recognizing women from around the world who have made a contribution to society. Today, we recognize Vija Celmins, a world-renowned artist.
Celmins is one of many famous women artists our world has to offer. She is known for so many things, but overall she is famous for photo-realistic paintings and drawings of natural environments and phenomena such as the ocean, spider webs, star fields, and rocks.
Celmins was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1938. Her family moved to Indiana in the United States in 1948. She graduated from the John Herrion School of Art and Design in Indianapolis and earned a master’s of fine arts from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
Her earlier work included pop sculptures and monochromatic representational paintings. With all of this knowledge and experience of all the art she has made, she has received the following awards: MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada.
