Becky Olvera Schultz

Becky Olvera Schultz is an Indigenous artist of mixed ancestry. The artist, based in Aptos, creates non-wearable and non-ceremonial art masks in Native American and Southwestern styles, using clay and mixed media. These colorful, life-like masks are painted and adorned, serving as the artist’s personal representation of Indigenous peoples. After a hiatus as an artist, Schultz found her way back to creating through grief, after her brother died and she participated in a powwow committee and drumming class for grief therapy. Schultz’s work can be found in 480 Lighthouse Gallery. (The gallery is at 480 Lighthouse Ave., Pacific Grove and hours are 11am-3pm daily except Mondays). Olvera Schultz’s work has been widely exhibited throughout the West, including at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History. To view more of her work, visit native-expressions.com.