Canvas

Canvas: Umbro Red Milton Canvas: The couple has called Tahlequah home for four years, after living in Maryland for 14 years, and Lawton before that. Cooper worked at the Smithsonian Museum, and now she is on staff at the Cherokee Heritage Center. Roaix has been a physical plant engineer at a couple of universities and retired from Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum on Chesapeake Bay.
“I missed Oklahoma while I was away,” Roaix said.

Now retired, he works every day on art of one form or another, but always dedicates several hours to stone carving, mostly using soapstone and alabaster and creating birds. His grandfather said he carved a standing skunk out of pine when he was 5 and sold it for $5 to a man on a fishing trip.Roiax is a Mohawk, and he believe art is an expression of his culture and that of others. “It makes for a well-rounded person, if you appreciate music and art,” he said. “People who create music and art use more of their brain and are better students.”