Sunshine Reeves
About the artist
Daniel "Sunshine" Reeves is a Navajo (Dine) silversmith, born in Twin Lakes, New Mexico in 1966. The name Sunshine was given to him as a child by family. He was taught to work silver by his older brothers, Gary and David, and has worked professionally since 1986. He is known above all for stamp work....
Other Works
Turquoise & Silver
Daniel "Sunshine" Reeves is a Navajo (Dine) silversmith, born in Twin Lakes, New Mexico in 1966. The name Sunshine was given to him as a child by family. He was taught to work silver by his older brothers, Gary and David, and has worked professionally since 1986.
He is known above all for stamp work. A single pattern will use ten to twenty stamps he has made himself, struck deep into flat sheet silver that is then formed into bracelets, boxes, even kerosene lanterns.
He has taken Best of Show at Santa Fe Indian Market and Best in Class the following year, and his work is in the permanent collections of the Heard Museum and Harvard's Peabody Museum.