Jimmie Carole Fife Stewart (born 1940) is a Muscogee (Creek) art educator, fashion designer, and artist.
Her grandfather was a wood and stone carver, her father drew with colored pencils and chalks,[3] and her mother, who was a teacher, created traditional crafts like medallions and quilts.
[5] Fife married Robert N. Stewart and in 1979 the couple settled in Washington, Oklahoma,[1] where she returned to teaching and continued with her art.
[7] In 1968, when Fife won an award at the Annual Five Civilized Tribes Museum Art Show, the fact that a woman had won, inspired Virginia Stroud (Keetoowah Cherokee/Muscogee Creek) to team up with Mary Adair (Cherokee Nation), Jean Bales (Iowa), Joan Brown (Cherokee descent), Sharron Ahtone Harjo (Kiowa), Valjean McCarty Hessing (Choctaw), Ruthe Blalock Jones (Shawnee/Peoria), and Jane McCarty Mauldin (Choctaw) to support each other and their work.
Stroud credited Fife with motivating the group's Daughters of the Earth exhibition, curated by Doris Littrell, which traveled for three years (1985–1988) and toured in the United States and Europe.
[5] She and Phyllis also were featured artists in a production of the Creek Nation Communication Department and KOED television, The Folklore of the Muscogee People released in 1983.
[15] She has works in the permanent collections of the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in Muskogee, Oklahoma[16] and her 1977 painting, The Earth is Our Mother, is part of the holdings of the Daybreak Star Cultural Center in Seattle.