Carmelita Little Turtle, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American photographer
Date of Birth: 04-Jun-1952
Place of Birth: Santa Maria, California, United States
Profession: photographer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Carmelita Little Turtle
- Carmelita "Carm" Little Turtle was an Apache/Tarahumara photographer born in Santa Maria, California, on June 4, 1952.
- Her hand-painted, sepia-toned photographs explore gender roles, women's rights and the relationships between women and men.
- Little Turtle's constructed photographic tableaux cast her husband, her relatives, and herself as characters in a variety of Southwestern landscapes that serve as backdrops to the dynamics of interpersonal relationships.Little Turtle attended the Navajo Community College, graduating in 1978.
- She also attended the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where she studied photography.
- Additionally, she studied photography at the College of the Redwoods, Eureka, California.
- She first began schooling in order to become a nurse before deciding to become an artist.
- She was also known for being both a producer and photographer with Shenandoah Films in Arcata, California from 1980 to 1983.Her first exhibition was in 1982 at the Hardwood Foundation in Taos, New Mexico.
- She has been a part of both individual and group exhibitions.
- Her first group exhibition was also in 1982.
- Titled Native Americans Now, it was located at the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center in the Larkfield-Wikiup, also known as Santa Rosa, California.
- Many of the exhibitions she participated in were based around or about the Native American theme. Her work is seen in several collections.
- These include the Center for Creative Photography, Heard Museum, Southwest Museum, Southern Plains Indian Museum, and the Western Arts American Library.
- She was awarded the Western States Arts Federation Fellowship in 1993. Lawrence Abbott interviewed her in his book, I Stand in the Center of the Good: Interviews with Contemporary Native American Artists (1994).
- Joan M.
- Jensen also wrote about Little Turtle for a chapter in Susan R.
- Ressler's Women Artists of the American West (2011) and in her dissertation at the University of New Mexico, Native American Women Photographers As Storytellers (2000).
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