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Robert Shorty
Indigenous American: Tiwa
Indigenous American: Tiwa, b. 1944
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.

A third-generation artist, Dawning Pollen Shorty follows in the tradition of her creative family members. Both her parents, potter Bernadette Track and sculptor Robert Shorty, are well known visual and performance artists. They met through the Native American Theater Ensemble in New York. Robert studied under modern dance trailblazer José Limón, and is also a writer. Artists in Pollen’s maternal lineage include her grandmother Jeri Track, her great grandmother Tonita Suazo, her great-aunt Juanita DuBray, her uncle John Suazo and great-uncle Ralph Suazo from Taos Pueblo. On her father’s side, her Navajo grandfather, Dooley Shorty, a master jeweler and WWII Code Talker, taught silversmithing to generations of students at the Intermountain Indian School (now defunct) in Brigham City, Utah.