Born: April 29, 1980 in Manassas, Virginia raised in Oklahoma City, OK

Alicia Saltina Marie Roedell-Clark is an award winning Caddo artist from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She received a Bachelor of Art from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado in 2006, with an emphasis in ceramics and printmaking. She also holds a Master of Education with Montessori Certification from Oklahoma City University. Her past work focused on assemblages of found objects and contemporary art. After moving back home from Colorado in 2006, Alicia’s nostalgic curiosity led her on a journey to learn more about her family history. Unknowingly this journey changed the direction of her art. After learning her family members were traditional storytellers and learning the stories they told, she began turning these stories into paintings. Alicia has given a new life to the stories her Caddo ancestors once told. Her love of color, pattern and mixing mediums brings a contemporary approach to her art. She has embraced the past, brought it into the present and has given the stories of her Grandmother’s Grandmother, Annie Wilson, a new future. The stories of her people were recorded by a man named George Amos Dorsey and were collected under the Auspices of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1905. Although not every work of art Alicia creates is taken from the stories of her ancestors, every work of art she creates is a story.

“It is an honor to recreate an art that has been lost and give it a new life.” - Alicia