Nadema Ivania Agard, who also uses the name Winyan Luta Red Woman,[1] (born September 10, 1948) is an American visual artist, educator, illustrator, poet, storyteller, museum professional and an activist for Indigenous rights.
At the Università Cattolica di Milano of Rome, Italy, in Summer 1969, Agard studied Renaissance art and Architecture.
In 1975, Holiday House of New York published a children's book, ChiChi HooHoo Bogey Man, written by Virginia Dewing Hawk and illustrated by Agard.
From 1995 to 1997 she became the Repatriation Director for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe[citation needed] and in the early 2000s, she accepted the position of Community Outreach Specialist for the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
[citation needed] After leaving the museum, Agard has taken several roles as a guest curator, and has used her time to give lectures and create artwork.
Our Lady of Guadalakota is a sepia pencil drawing by Agard created in 1997 that symbolizes the fusion of the Mesoamerica goddess Tonantzin, also seen as the Virgin of Guadalupe, with the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Woman of the Lakota people.
She created each of the moons to be a soft sculpture that reflects a woman’s body in many phases and per Patricia Janis Broder, shows the ongoing theme of her art that highlights female genitalia in a more open perspective.
Purple and creme paints are displayed through each square, each containing images including shells, corn, various animals, and even writing that says “half moon”.