Marietta Dantonio-Fryer, also known as "Dream Weaver" to the Lenape family she was adopted into had a vision in 1998. Since she was a young child her artwork was created from her dreams and visions. In this vision she saw thousands of wooden totem or story poles similar to the ones of the Pacific Northwest, standing tall, standing proud. Some beautifully painted, some carved but all saying the same thing - WE ARE SURVIVORS!
That is how Totem Rhythms was born. Along the way Totem Rhythms became a registered Pennsylvania Corporation and also received Federal IRS status as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Totem Rhythms strives to maintain and forever keep alive the culture and heritage of
Native American Indians and other Indigenous Peoples.
To date, Marietta, the Totem Rhythms Board of Directors and uncountable numbers of volunteers have created more than 20 totem poles with American Indian tribes, colleges, Universities, the United States Army and they even created a totem poles right in the exhibition hall of United Nations Headquarters in New York City!
Visit the Totems Rhythms website at TotemRhythmsInc.com
Professor Dantonio-Fryer paints a An ambassador to the United Nations takes Jan Arneson, art curator for United Nations
totem pole at the United Nations in New York a turn painting a totem pole at the U.N. Headquarters in N.Y. carves part of a totem
