Joyce Growing Thunder Fogarty

[2] Joyce Growing Thunder Fogarty was born in Poplar, Montana, on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.

[4] Throughout her life she created artistic works using traditional designs of Plains Indians, and became the matriarch of a family with many beadwork artisans,[5] including her daughter, Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty, and granddaughter, Jessica "Jessa Rae".

[6] Joyce Growing Thunder Fogarty is the only artist to have won the "Best of Show" three times at the Santa Fe Indian Market.

[4][5] She has created over 500 dresses in her lifetime; other works include cradleboards, dance outfits, horse masks, and dolls.

Her work is featured in books Identity by Design: Tradition, Change, and Celebration in Native Women's Dresses, and The Responsive Eye: Ralph T. Coe and the Collecting of American Indian Art.