Isaiah Stewart‘s work is involved with historical imagery of plains Lakota people’s everyday life. His interests are always focused on the figure, and its relationship to the land.  Illustrations of lives from the past intermixed with modern life, helps to inform Stewart’s art by what he seeks in his artistic practice and personal life.  The people he studies are portrayed like casts in a story within supporting parts of his work.  Big Kansas storm clouds with old souls that still love the land and all of God’s creations that inhabit it.  There is a horse is the center figure that brings all parties together because of its distinct nature.  The horse knows your soul before you talk, when and if it trusts you to ride, it will know your imbalance and work to put you where you need to be in the center.  Stewart is creating stories to ignite the imagination of my community by celebrating the historical relationship between the University of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, but also many towns across the Midwest that mirror their dynamic.