Nocona Burgess WA&A Aug/Sept 2025
For Comanche artist Nocona Burgess, the studio is not only a creative workspace but also a container of memory, identity, tradition, and community. “It’s full of stuff,” Burgess says. “Just kind of off-the-wall stuff that I’ve collected. It’s art and objects from friends and former students. Some of my son’s stuff, my grandfather’s art, my dad’s paintings. And lots of books, because I’m always reading and researching historical imagery. They create a context for me. An immersion. And that’s what everything’s kind of built for in the studio. In Comanche, we say Nanisuwukaitu…