Robert D. Shorty, is an award-winning sculptor, writer, dancer, and actor. He was born in Fort Defiance, Arizona, in 1944. Shorty has been involved with both the performing and the visual arts. He is an actor, dancer, writer, and sculptor. He studied at the Institute of American Indian Art in Sante Fe, at Bacon Junior College in Muskogee, Oklahoma, had a scholarship in modern dance at the Connecticut School of Dance, and at the Mary Antony Dance Studio in New York City. He is an original member of the American Indian Theatre Ensemble, La Mama Experimental Theater Club, in New York City, and has appeared in dancing and acting roles across the country
Robert D. Shorty, Diné, statement
"In 1964, I heard of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. My father drove me there from Northern Utah. Next morning we prayed a long prayer leaving me to start my life changing adventure. It was a melting pot of creativity! It was then I took my first sculpture class. Mr. Allan Houser was my teacher from 1964 to1967. It was then my journey in three-dimensional design began … within the time I took my first sculpture class. Prior to that I took classes at the largest off-reservation boarding school at Intermountain Vocational Indian School, in Brigham City, Utah. Mr. Houser was the art teacher, he taught painting. Mr. Houser was amused by my curiosity as I gazed at his painting. He encouraged me. All I knew I was having fun. Always unconsciously creating and enjoying myself."
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