Welcome to the

POTAWATOMI STUDIO

Featuring the paintings of Mitch Battese

Mitch Battese is a member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribe in Kansas.

On this page you will find a few examples of the paintings of Mitch. Most of his work is done with oils on canvas, but he continues to work with watercolors from time to time. Spirituality can be an important factor in establishing the subject of some of his paintings.

Studies involving the American Bison can be an important aspect of the paintings and drawings of Mitch.

Our dust and bones.

Ashes cold and white.

I see no longer the curling smoke rising.

I hear no longer the songs of women.

Only the wail of the coyote is heard.

-Plenty Coups

"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us."

Black Elk - Oglala Sioux

The growing and dying of the moon reminds us of our ignorance which comes and goes- but when the moon is full it is as if the Great Spirit were upon the whole world.

-Black Elk, Oglala Sioux