Big Spring Artistry LLC

• Arabel StandingBear: Miss Arabel was an award winning 16 year old, on so many levels, when we fist started this small biz. It's been a couple years now and she hasn't slowed down on her accomplishments one bit, and hitting all those goals she's even set for herself currently in life. We couldn't be more proud of her. She's never short of having ambitions. She's an actress, model, musician, advocate and artist. Embodying the word "creative," she takes inspiration from her atmosphere and those around her. Recently relocating herself off the Osage Nation Reservation, she is still residing on ancestral land located in Neosho, Missouri. Arabel has deep roots within her culture and spends her summers and may weekends on the reservation attending events held by her tribe. This plays a huge part in her way of life and influences her art style in many ways. This young artist is heavily fashion oriented and expresses herself in style and creating art in clothing through various forms of up-cycling and recycling for better use. She's learning guitar, plays the French horn and the trumpet well. With an elegant singing voice, she is also in one of the local school show chores 2023 to 2024. She's also currently, with any spare time, ceramic crafts on top of everything else. She's an award winning thrower now, taking home a few ribbons at her last clay competition! She's won awards for led pencil works, colored pencil works, watercolor, acrylic painting and other categories time and time again. She can't ever stop creating things when she's feeling well, as she feels behind on the days her HAE shows up randomly. Rare diseases are viscous at times. Occasionally she has 3 to 5 days of swelling that occurs with her illness. That can happen either inside or outside of her body and can be located anywhere almost. Hereditary Angioedema comes with a wide range of side effects and none which are fun. So, Arabel creates when she's attack free and feeling Like herself. She's an inspiration to many as a youth advocate for her rare disease, Hereditary Angioedema, hoping to help spread awareness about her and her mother's rare illness to everyone she crosses paths with. She knows knowledge is power and she enjoys showing others they can be just as powerful as she.

• Sheena StandingBear: This little tumble weed originated in the great state of Texas and currently lives, in Missouri with her spouse and daughter. Her son, Arabels's brother located on the Osage Reservation with his father. Sheena was 40 years old when starting this small biz and no stranger to owning her own business at that. She's taken a moment due to the rare disease, hereditary angioedema, from working a 9 to 5 job and enjoying her artistic ways these days. She was beyond ready to launch an amazing small artistry business with her equally talented daughter. Sheena is well known for her outdoor adventures, which is just one of many things people find so interesting about her. Through her use of the compound bow, her hunting and fishing skills, and her guide services, she's done more than the average bear. Sheena is a certified Master Angler and has competed in many bass tournaments placing in the top 10, 9 out of 10 times. Sheena was the proprietor of THE 223 BAR, once located in the same town Jessie James is known for frequenting. Rumor in these parts is Sheena was crowned Miss Jessie James in the year of 2000. Her Niece was then crowned after, some years later, and even her great niece was crowned lil' Miss Jessie as recent as 2022. This Strong minded, independent and outgoing lady has quite the story. Sheena was named youngest bar owner in the four-state area in 2010 and her random list of accomplishments just keep going. Being diagnosed with a rare disease just made since as Sheena had struggles through life health wise and quite frequently off and on. Many doctors were confused, until the day she seen a gastroenterologist who sent her to a special Immunologist with all the right answers. Sheena was then flown to California for testing from multiple HAE specialists and officially diagnosed with an uncurbable rare disease that can be passed on through DNA with a 50/50 chance. She had already had two children at this time in her life. Her son thankfully did not inherit the illness and sadly her daughter was diagnosed with HAE. In receiving her mother's HAE, Arabel is the 4th generation in her genepool now and Sheena is the 3rd. Sheena at the time of her diagnoses went from harvesting turkeys and working a fly rod, to painting on those turkey's feathers and painting those fish. Born with the creative bone, she has always done art in the background of her life. That art is totally in the forefront now as she creates when she feels good and the days she can't... She has the best support team ever taking care of her.

• Sheena and Arabel: There is no cure for Hereditary Angioedema. For us if it wasn't for life saving medications that we rigorously go through charity organizations to acquire, keep doing insurance denials after insurance denial, and so much more, we wouldn't be able to create beautiful hand crafted things for YOU that you see here today. It costs more than most people's car to take one injection of our rescue meds alone and there are times we need one injection every 6 hours for a day or more. We are not downers and try to be nothing put positive overall in our life. This is a huge part of us and feel other's only gain from this knowledge. This effects our day to day life. Thanks to the preventive meds, acute rescue meds and YOU... our wonderful supports, we can do this with confidence. We appreciate everyone more than you could ever know and we THANK YOU!

• If you see something you want of their art but it says unavailable to your area or you need special shipping, or extra help for any reason... please then shoot us an email and we will do our best to get it to you or help out where we can. Let's all work together and get Arable and Sheena's beautiful creations of art out into the world. They're thankful for the opportunity to share their art with you through creating lampshades, tree bark art, painted feathers, traditional native beading, making jewelry, bleaching upcycled projects and so much more!