Born in 1954, sculptor Tim Nicola, a Penobscot Indian, was raised on
Indian Island - his tribe’s reservation in the middle of the Penobscot
River in Maine.
Growing up, Nicola had access to a workshop because his father,
grandfather and grandmother were basket makers.
Like many others in his community, he carved wood as a boy, but early
on his bent was for painting and drawing. In 1980 he moved to
Santa Fe, New Mexico in order to attend the Institute of American
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