About the Artist
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 Indian Arts. Although he initially enrolled as a painter, after a short time he became interested in three-dimensional arts to which he fast became devoted.
Taken From: https://www.askart.com/artist/Tim_Nicola/107344/Tim_Nicola.aspx