Meet Kuki
Member:
Prescott Arts Journey
Wickenburg Art Club (Juried)
Cowgirl Artists of America
Kuki Hargrave is an award-winning Arizona artist living and working in Prescott. Her original paintings and prints are found in galleries, museums, private collections and publications. Born in Hollywood, California in 1949, the artist grew up loving art, history, western movies and the great outdoors.
Creative from an early age, Kuki began showing her original oils and watercolors in art galleries and shows in Orange County when she was 15 years old. Her family supported and encouraged her artistic endeavors. She has been a working artist for over 50 years, and has been creating Western themed originals in acrylics and gouache, as well as digital mixed-media prints for the last twelve years.
Kuki attended Orange Coast College and the University of California Irvine in Southern California. An avid history buff and Old West reenactor, Kuki and a companion packed up two burros and in 1983 completed a 2000+ mile walk from Big Bear, California to Trout Lake, Washington. Dressed in handmade buckskins and carrying black powder guns, tipi and accessories from the 1820 Fur Trade Era, the artist traveled the highways and back country of California, Oregon and Washington State. The trip provided research and inspiration for numerous paintings exhibited and sold in the Columbia River Gorge Region. In 1993, she released “Wagons at South Pass,” a limited-edition print for Oregon’s Oregon Trail Sesquicentennial Celebration.
An Arizona resident for 26 years, Kuki and her husband Tom moved to Prescott in 2010. Kuki is an active artist, with a national and local following, and hometown shows at The Mountain Artists Guild, Prescott Center for the Arts, ‘Tis Gallery, The Phippen Museum and the Ian Russell Gallery on Whiskey Row.
In 2019, her work “Fab Town” appeared on the cover of Prescott Living Magazine. In 2020, the City of Prescott purchased her work “Homeward Bound” which was presented to the hotel owners during the ribbon cutting ceremony for the opening of the new Hilton Garden Inn in Prescott.
PROUD SPONSER
2021 to 2023 PRESCOTT COMMUNITY FUNRAISING EVENTS:
Yavapai CASA for Kids Foundation Annual Masquerade Gala Sept. 18th 2021, Hassayampa Inn, Prescott
Silent and Live Auctions
Prescott Western Heritage Foundation Annual Banquet,
November 6th 2021
Prescott Resort and Conference Center, Prescott
Silent and Live Auctions
Prescott Western Heritage Foundation CASINO NIGHT
June 2022
Elks Theater, Crystal Ballroom, Prescott
Art Raffle
Wickenburg Art Club
2022 Holiday Market
Silent Auction
Prescott Willow Creek Trail Mural Project 2023
Animal Sponsor: The Bald Eagle
Planning a Community Fundraising Event?
Contact the artist for sponsorships in 2023
Artist's Statement
Art doesn’t sell itself. It is part of my job as an artist to
make it accessible and desirable.
By showcasing other artists and other forms of art, I can do
a small part to enrich the lives of a world starving for beauty.
Pay it forward by giving back to my community.
Push the boundaries, challenge myself to learn, take risks,
seek new vistas, and grow as an artist.
Be thankful for the opportunity to create!
