She sculps "Clay Things" from polyfoam clay with a paring knife and a nut-pick. She also paints many of her characters on canvas which she frames herself and does beautiful painted birdhouse gourds.

Daisy Youngblood, “Leaping I” (2010), low-fire clay, 29 x 14 x 9 1/2 inches. Private Collection (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) In 2003, Daisy Youngblood collected her MacArthur prize and ...