Betty LaDuke

Betty LaDuke (née Bernstein; born 1933) is an American artist and writer from Oregon.

[2] She attended the High School of Music and Art in New York starting at age sixteen, and later studied at Denver University, the Cleveland Institute of Art.

[1] In the fifties she received a scholarship which allowed her to study art at Mexico's Instituto Allende from 1953 through 1956.

[1][3] During her time in Mexico she lived with the Indigenous Otomi, whose concern with the preservation of their heritage profoundly influenced LaDuke's work.

[3] LaDuke's work is held by the Portland Art Museum.