Inaugual Oklahoma Flute Festival painting is designed and painted by Mickel Yantz of LogJaM Arts.  The poster contains several references influenced by Southeastern Mississippian designs, such as the woodpecker motif found on shell gorgets over 1000 years old, and pottery pattern paddle designs (carved wooden paddles with various designs used as a stamp on a clay pots) over 1900 years old, used by tribes of the Southeastern U.S.  The flutes are incorporated in the knot motif. Used with Permission.




      This wonderful logo depicts the woodpecker legend, which varies across the country.  The linking theme is a woodpecker pecking holes in a tree branch and when the wind blew across the holes a subtle sound was created.  According to this legend the sound created inspired a flute. This images shows the woodpecker pecking holes in a tree branch working it's way up the branch, drawn by Kappy Frederickson, to create the similar holes found on a Native American Flute.  This image is wrapped in an outline of the state of Oklahoma, the location of the Oklahoma Flute Fest.
    
Designed by Dennis and Kapotahi Frederiksen, and Mickel Yantz. Drawn by Kapotahi Frederidsen.  It is being used with  permission.