ProjecT
& Exhibit History
Updated January 2022
Awards, Cohorts, and Grant Support:
2023/24 MCAD-Jerome Fellowship for Early Career Artists
2022 Northland Foundation Maada-ookiing Grant
2022 St. Paul & Minnesota Foundation grant (DAI)
2022 Springboard for the Arts Creative Community Leadership Institute
2022 NorthxNorth Film Pitch Competition runner-up
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2021 MSAB Creative Support for Individuals Grant
2021 Duluth Superior Film Festival Al Milgrom Memorial Award
2021 Waterers: Future Building Award recipient
2021 ARAC Established Regional Artist Award
2021 ARAC Emergency Working Artist Grant
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2020 MSAB Creative Support for Individuals Grant
2020 2020 McKnight Foundation / St. Paul & Minnesota Foundation “Art in the Present Moment” grant
2020 Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation Anishinaabe Fund (via Duluth Indigenous Commission for Chief Buffalo Memorial Project)
2020-2021 Arrowhead Regional Arts & Cultural Heritage Grant (Chief Buffalo Memorial Project)
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2019 - 2020 Women’s Foundation of MN Innovator’s Program
2019-2020 Knight Foundation / 8 80 Cities Emerging City Champions
2019 Duluth News Tribune “20 Under 40” Award
2019 YWCA “Women of Distinction: Emerging Leader” award
2019 NAACP “Take a Stand For the Revolution” award
2019 ARAC Art Project Grant (to create Indigenous Land mural in Lincoln Park with youth)
2019 ARAC Technology & Equipment Grant (to purchase an iPad for street mural sketches)
2019 Forecast Public Art Emerging Artist (community street murals with Anishinaabe and local neighborhood ideas merged together)
2019 MSAB Artist Initiative (currently using to develop new body of paintings/digital art related to Children’s Rights)
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2018-2021 Bush Creative Communities Cohort 2 (through AICHO)
2018 - 2019 Bush Change Network member
2018-2019 Duluth Chapter Voices for Racial Justice
2018 Girl Power Program Woman of the Week
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2016 UW-S Community Diversity Award
2014 Duluth Soup Micro-Grant (Goody Night)
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Panels and Board Participation:
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2022-Current YouthPrise Board of Directors
2021-current Duluth Superior Community Area Foundation Board of Trustees
2021 Project 410 Gallery Annual Juried Exhibit Judge
2020-2022 Youth MOVE! Arts Mentor
2019-2020 WDSE Sounding Board
2020 Salzburg Global Forum for Young Cultural Innovators
2020 - Current Duluth Indigenous Commission
2020-Current Minnesota Rural Urban Exchange (RUX) cohort
2020-2022 St Louis County Mental Health Local Advisory Council
2014 - 2019 Board Member, 2019 - ongoing panelist for the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council
Various Artist Residency and arts selection committees across the state of Minnesota.
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Collaborative Projects:
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Artist Residencies:
July 2022 Tofte Lake Center BIPOC Residency (Ely, MN)
December 2022 Salzburg Global Fellowship Artist in Residence (Salzburg, Austria)
2023 Interconnected Learning Cohort (Israel/Palestine)
SELECTED EXHIBITION HISTORY & ARTS CURATION:
2023
MCAD-Jerome Fellowship Group Exhibition / MCAD
February 2024 - Minneapolis, MN
“Waiting For Beds” Duo Exhibit exhibit exploring mental health crisis care with Carla Hamilton / PROVE
February 2023 - Duluth, MN (traveling)
“Waiting For Beds” Duo Exhibit exhibit exploring mental health crisis care with Carla Hamilton / Macrostie Art Center
May 2023 - Grand Rapids, MN (traveling)
“40th Anniversary - Ruby Red” Group Exhibit / The Phipps Center for Arts
January 2022 - Hudson, WI
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2022
Selected Artist / MN Artist Penny Press Project
Winter 2022 - MN Statewide
Waiting area commission & community listening sessions / Hamm Clinic
September 2022 - St. Paul
Duluth Story project - Voiceover / Zeitgeist Center for Arts
Summer 2022
Solo fish series (part of a group exhibit) - Northern Warehouse Artist Collective
July 11, 2022 - St. Paul, MN
Wayzata Sail Painting featured artist
June 2022 - Wayzata, MN
Gifts of the Northern Sun Exhibit - University of Minnesota - Duluth
June 2022 - Online platform
Free Range Film Festival
June 2022 - Wrenshall, MN
“Doublethink: Rights of the Child” Solo Exhibit / Watermark Gallery
March 2022 - Bemidji, MN
“Doublethink: Rights of the Child” Solo Exhibit / The Phipps Center for Arts
January 2022 - Hudson, WI
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2021
“Ekphrasis” Group Exhibit / The Phipps Center for Arts
Fall 2021 - Hudson, WI
Duluth Superior Film Festival, Short Film Category, “Madweyaashkaa” / Zeitgeist Zinema
August 2021 - Duluth, MN - received the first Al Milgrom Memorial Award for boldness in media production.
“Water: A Minnesota Biennial” Group Exhibit / Minnesota Museum of American Art
Fall 2021 - St. Paul, MN
Madweyaashkaa: Waves Can Be Heard (150 ft. animated projection) / Washington Center
June 2021 - Duluth, MN
“Breaking the Silence” Virtual Group Exhibit / Minneapolis Institute of Art
February 2021 - Minneapolis, MN
Upper Saint Anthony Falls Lock Featured Projection Artist (150 ft. animated projection) / Northern Lights.MN
February 2021 - Minneapolis, MN
Redleaf Center for Family Healing / Hennepin County Medical Center
Permanent Collection - Minneapolis, MN
BAM Instructor / Duluth Art Institute/Duluth Folk School exhibit
Summer 2021 - Duluth, MN
“A Winter Love” (feature film) animator / Written and Directed by Rhiana Yazzie
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2020
“Creating Apart: Local Artists Respond to the Global Pandemic” Group Exhibit / Tweed Museum of Art
Winter 2020 - May 2021 - Duluth, MN
“Project 30.1” Group Exhibit + Mural artist selection committee / The Phipps Center for Arts
December 2020 / January 2021 - Hudson, WI
Upper Saint Anthony Falls Lock Projection Artist / Northern Lights Festival
Upcoming December 2020 - Minneapolis, MN
“Water 2020: A Minnesota Biennial” Group Exhibit / Minnesota Museum of American Art
(pending COVID-19)
“Doublethink: Rights of the Child” Solo Exhibit / New York Mills Cultural Center
September 2020 - New York Mills, MN
“Doublethink: Rights of the Child” Solo Exhibit / The Phipps Center for Arts
Scheduled for May 2021 - Hudson, WI
“Doublethink: Rights of the Child” Solo Exhibit / All My Relations Gallery
February 2020 / April 2020 - Minneapolis, MN
“Foresight: 20 Years of Mitakuye Oyasin” Group Retrospective Exhibit / All My Relations Gallery
December 2019 / February 2020 - Minneapolis, MN
“Where the Wild Rice Grows” - Solo Exhibit / Peace Church
November 2019 / February 2020 - Duluth, MN
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2019
“Doublethink: Rights of the Child” Solo Exhibit / Zeitgeist Arts Center
October 2019 - Duluth, MN
“Nibikaang” Group Exhibit / Watermark Art Center
July/September 2019 - Bemidji, MN
“Open Water” Group Exhibit / First Stage Gallery
May 2019 - Virginia, MN
“Art of Resilience” Group Exhibit / Headwaters Relief Organization (as part of Minneapolis Art-a-Whirl)
May 2019 - Minneapolis, MN
“Where the Wild Rice Grows” - Solo Exhibit / Institute on the Environment (U of M)
Winter - Summer 2019 - St. Paul, MN
“Bring Her Home: Stolen Daughters of Turtle Island” - Digital Designer & Co-Curator / All My Relations Gallery
February 2018, February 2019 - Minneapolis / Traveling Exhibit
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2018
“Where the Wild Rice Grows” - Solo Exhibit / Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Duluth
September 2018 - Duluth, MN
“Endangered: Lives & Ways of Living” - Duo Exhibit with Ellen Sandbeck / Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center
August/September 2018 - Duluth, MN
“Old School Arts Summer Show”: Featured Artist / Old School Art Center
July/September 2018 - Sandstone, MN
Two Harbors Chalk.A.Lot: Featured Artist / Thomas Owens Park
July 2018 - Two Harbors, MN
“Nighthawks”: Group Exhibition / Changes Gallery
May/June 2018 - Foley, MN
“Phenomenal”: Group Exhibition featuring all WOCI artists (organized/curated + contributed artwork) / Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center
March/April 2018 - Duluth, MN
“WTF! Feminist Art Exhibition” / Gallery 315
March 2018 - Duluth, MN
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2017
“Phenomenal”: Group Exhibition featuring all WOCI artists (organized/curated + contributed artwork) / Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center
March 2018 - Duluth, MN
“WTF! Feminist Art Exhibition” / Gallery 315
March 2018 - Duluth, MN
“Maamawi”: AICHO Artists Group Exhibit & Calendar Release (organized/curated + contributed artwork) / AICHO Galleries
December 2017 - Duluth, MN
“Resist & Protect”: Group Exhibition / Zeitgeist Arts Cafe
November 2018 - Duluth, MN
“We the People”: Group Exhibition / Minnesota Museum of American Art
August/November 2017 - St. Paul, MN
Duluth Superior Film Festival: Short Film Screening Event / Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center
June 2017 - Duluth, MN
“The Art of Indigenous Resistance”: Traveling Group Exhibit / Self Help Graphics Gallery +
May 2017 - started in Los Angeles, CA
“Ubuntu”: Group Exhibition / Zeitgeist Arts Cafe
April/August 2017 - Duluth, MN
“Arts for Social Change”: Group Exhibition / University of Minnesota - Duluth
April 2017 - Duluth, MN
INAATE/SE/ Film Screening Event Feat. Short Films by Jonathan Thunder and Moira Villiard / Dr. Robert Powless Cultural Center
January 2017 - Duluth, MN
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2016
“Introspection”: Group Exhibition / PRØVE Gallery
December 2016 - Duluth, MN
“Standing Strong for Our Precious Water”: Art Exhibit & Concert Benefit for Standing Rock and Honor the Earth (organized/curated + contributed artwork) / AICHO Galleries
December 2016 - Duluth, MN
DAI “Make Your Mark”: Live-Painting + donated work / Duluth Timber Company
October 2016 - Duluth, MN
“Plein Air Duluth: Paint du Nord”: Group Exhibition (+ live-painting) / Duluth Art Institute
July 2016 through September 2016 - Duluth, MN
Dawn of Redemption Concert: Live-Painting with Richmond Seju / New Century Theater
June 2016 - Minneapolis, MN
“Real”: Solo Exhibit / Zeitgeist Arts Cafe
June 2016 - Duluth, MN
“Resilience & Grit”: Group Exhibition / PRØVE Gallery
May 2016 - Duluth, MN
Wildwoods Fundraiser: Live-Painting / Clyde Iron Works
April 2016 - Duluth, MN
Escape to the Tropics Charity Concert Supporting Flint, MI: Group Exhibition (display + curated by Moira Villiard) / University of Wisconsin - Superior
April 2016 - Superior, WI
Guerilla Girls: “All About Eve” Gallery Hop / Trepanier Hall (AICHO ) + redGallery
January 2016 - Duluth, MN
All Black Zine Release: Group Exhibition / PRØVE Gallery
January 2016 - Duluth, MN
UMD Native Storytelling: Art Display / University of Minnesota - Duluth, Kirby Ballroom
January 2016 - Duluth, MN
Public Art Display / Lake Superior Bakehouse
Ongoing - Duluth, MN
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2015
“Anawe Mitigookweg Akiminan” (A Circle of Native Women): Group Exhibition / Edge Center Gallery
October 2015 - Bigfork, MN
Goody Night Episode #12 (curated + co-directed) / The Underground
September 2015 - Duluth, MN
Two Harbors Chalk.A.Lot: Featured Artist / Thomas Owens Park
July 2015 - Two Harbors, MN
Hip-Hop May Youth Art Workshop Coordinator / Valley Youth Center
May 2015 - Duluth, MN
“Into the Peripheral”: Group Exhibition / Trepanier Hall (AICHO)
May 2015 - Duluth, MN
Goody Night Episode #11: The Story & Life of Eric Swanson (curated + co-directed) / Sacred Heart Music Center
May 2015 - Duluth, MN
Duluth SOUP: Group Exhibition / Clyde Ironworks
May 2015 - Duluth, MN
American Multicultural Student Leadership Conference: Art Display / University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
May 2015 - Duluth, MN
Arts for Social Change: Group Exhibition / University of Minnesota
April 2015 - Duluth, MN
Goody Night Episode #10 (curated) / The Underground
March 2015 - Duluth, MN
Duluth SOUP: Group Exhibition + Grant Recipient / Clyde Ironworks
February 2015 - Duluth, MN
Rising Point Concert: Live-Painting + Auction / Sacred Heart Music Center
January 2015 - Duluth, MN
Live-Painting / Jefferson People’s House
January 2015 - Duluth, MN
Group Display / Ghost Dog Tattoo
2015 - Cloquet, MN
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2014
Duluth SOUP / Red Herring
November 2014 - Duluth, MN
Goody Night Episode #9 Solo Exhibit + Live-Painting + Charitable Auction / The UndergroundNovember 2014 - Duluth, MN
Solo Exhibit: All Black Everything / PRØVE Gallery
September 2014 - Duluth, MN
Goody Night Episode #8 - Solo Exhibit + Live Painting / The Underground
September 2014 - Duluth, MN
#NowFeeling / Spotify Corporate Event
July 2014 - Shoreditch, London, U.K.
Live-Painting Demonstration / Jefferson People’s House
July 2014 - Duluth, MN
North Country Bob Dylan Fest: Group Exhibition / Red Mug
May 2014 - Superior, WI
“EMERGE”: Group Exhibition (curated) / Trepanier Hall (AICHO)
May 2014 - Duluth, MN
“Quaintrelle”: Group Exhibition / PRØVE Gallery
February 2014 - Duluth, MN
Group Exhibition / Skyline Art Gallery
2014 - Duluth, MN
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2013
Thunder in the Gallery: Group Exhibition / Gimaajii American Indian Gallery
December 2013 - Duluth, MN
Rocky Makes Room For Them & Moira Villiard Art Exhibit / Gimaajii American Indian Gallery
April 2013 - Duluth, MN
American Indian Scholarship Exhibit: Group Exhibition / Kruk Gallery
April 2012 - Duluth, MN