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Memories
''I now think back to my childhood
and being with my grandfather, and how he was
persistent in quality and traditional accuracy in
how he carved dolls, and these beliefs still
influence me today. Not only do my
sculptures reflect the history of the Hopi people,
they transcend the traditions of an ancient people
into an ancient art form of bronze. I am trying to
capture a moment in time of my people and have it
remembered for many generations to come.''
Kim working on one of her Hopi Maidens
Kim's Story
Kim started her art career as a child finding rocks in the washes in Arizona
and painting figures, which her family still keeps today. She started sculpting
her Hopi maidens over twenty years ago and still has yet to scratch the surface
of her cultural history. ''The Hopi Tribe of Northern Arizona, is thousands of
years old. I have a lifetime to fully explain my people and their history. I know
many of my collectors now understand more about the women and their powerful place
in Hopi history.''
She originally worked in the traditional scrape-and-smooth method, which Hopi
potters have used for thousands of years. Kim's degree from Northern Arizona
University in Fine Arts, sculpture and bronze casting has become to be a personal
satisfaction for her art career.
Kim has been casting bronze for over 35 years and continues to enamor her
collectors and the Southwest art scene with her latest designs. ''My bronze career
has really taken off, and has earned me positions in museum, corporate and private
collections all over the world.'' Kim is one of the first Hopis to work in bronze
as an Art Medium and one of the first American Indian Women to work in bronze,
which is historically a male dominated field of Art.
Kim sitting in her studio once remarked, ''After the Corn was plenty, the Arts
were born to the Hopi;'' in other words, the Hopi prayed, worked and cared for their
family and then the arts we know today were created to perpetuate their history. Kim's
three girls are almost grown and her time to focus on Art is growing. Her career is
mirroring her statement.
Kim has been featured in many national magazine articles and her works have been
published in various books on Southwest Art. She has won numerous awards in Art and
Sculpture shows across the United States in both Native and non-Native events. Kim
represents herself with her own website kimobrzut.com. She travels to several art
shows across the US each year so she can personally meet her collectors and convey
the stories of the Hopi people and her art in person. She has also had the privilege
of being able to serve two two-year terms on the Board of Directors for SWAIA, who runs
the Santa Fe Indian Market, the largest American Indian Art show in the United States
in August on the plaza of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
