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ProjecT

& Exhibit History

Updated October 29, 2025

 

Awards, Cohorts, and Grant Support:

 

2025 MSAB Creative Support for Individuals Grant

2024 Bush Fellowship,

2024 Franconia Sculpture Park 5-Minute Film Festival Best in Show,

2024 MSAB Creative Support for Individuals Grant

 

2023 Propel Nonprofit Seeding Cultural Treasures (for Chief Buffalo Memorial) award

2023 NPN Artist Documentation & Storytelling Fund Grant,

2023 Pillsbury House Theater - McKnight Community Engaged Artist Fellowship

2023 Minnesota Film Festival Indigenous Filmmaker Grant

2023 Depot Foundation Artist Award

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

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

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)

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)

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

2016 UW-S Community Diversity Award

2014 Duluth Soup Micro-Grant (Goody Night)

Collaborative Projects:

A Goody Night

Artist Residencies: 

Summer 2025 Pittsburgh BOOM Concepts Residency through ACA (upcoming), 2024 Missing Narratives Mural project (Cloquet, MN), April-May 2024 three thirty one space Artist Residency (Minneapolis, MN), July 2022 Tofte Lake Center BIPOC Residency (Ely, MN), December 2022 Salzburg Global Fellowship Artist in Residence (Salzburg, Austria), March 2023 Interconnected Learning Cohort (Israel/Palestine)

SELECTED EXHIBITION HISTORY & ARTS CURATION:

2025

Anishinaabe: The Living Art of Original Peoples Group Exhibit  / Detroit Institute of Arts

September 2025 - April 2026 - Detroit, MI

Resist & Reclaim Group Exhibit / Goldstein Museum of Design

November 2025 - Minneapolis, MN

Ishkode Solo Exhibit / UW-Plateville

October 2025 - Plateville, WI

Neighbors of the Womb Duo-Exhibit with Leviathan Josts  / St. Louis County Depot

October  2025 - Duluth, MN

We Belong Together Group Exhibit  / Solidarity Street Gallery

Fall 2025 - St. Paul, MN

Little Big Show Group Exhibit / Macrostie Art Center

Summer 2025 -  Grand Rapids, MN 

Indaanikoobigijigan Duo-Exhibit with Robert Desjarlait / Hennepin Avenue United Methodist

June 2025 - Minneapolis, MN

Movement Group Exhibit / Grand Marais Arts Colony

May - August 2025 - Grand Marais, MN

Thunderdomesticity: Witness Me Group Exhibit / Fotolab 7

May 2025 - Vermillion, SD

Tell Me a Love Story Group Exhibit / Rum River Art Center

May-August 2025 - Anoka, MN

Rocking Chair (R) Evolution Exhibition  / Weisman Art Museum

March 2025 - Minneapolis, MN

Thunderbird Review: Volume 13

2024

Small Spirits Solo Exhibition  / Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge

November - January 2024 - Bloomington, MN

Solo Exhibit / Butter Bakery

December 2024 - Minneapolis, MN

Shorts in Winter Film Festival / Two Harbors High School

December 2024 - Two Harbors, MN

Franconia Five Minute Film Festival - Best in Show / Franconia Sculpture Park

October 2024 - Two Harbors, MN

Migration Memories Group Exhibition / Solidarity Street Gallery

September - October 2024 - St. Paul, MN

Beyond Boundaries: An Exploration of Indigenous Art Group Exhibition / Landscape Arboretum

September - November 2024 - Chaska, MN

9th Annual Imagine This Women's International Film Festival (Extraction)

September 2024 - New York City, NY

Member Show / Duluth Art Institute

June - July  2024 - Duluth, MN

On The Record Group Exhibition / Earth Rider Brewery

June 2024 - Superior, WI

Solo Exhibit / Denfeld Whole Foods Co-Op

April 2024 - Duluth, MN

“Waiting For Beds” Duo Exhibit exhibit exploring mental health crisis care with Carla Hamilton

  • October 2025 | UMN Morris Gallery, Morris, MI

  • March 2024 | Kruk Gallery, Superior, WI

  • April 2024 | Rabbit, Bird and Bear, Bayfield, WI

  • April/May 2024 | Wildflyer Coffee, Hope Street, and Face2Face collaboration (youth specific) at Wildflyer Coffee and Studio 240 / Northrup King Building, Minneapolis, MN 

  • June - September 2024 | Unitarian Universalist Church Duluth, MN

  • March - April 2025 | 210 Gallery & Art Center, Sandstone, MN

MCAD-Jerome Fellowship Group Exhibition (ft. “Waiting for Beds”) / MCAD

January - February 2024 - Minneapolis, MN

Dreaming Our Futures: Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Artists and Knowledge Keepers Group Exhibit

  • January 16 - March 16, 2024 | Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

  • April 24 - July 21, 2024 | Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota

  • September 3 - December 27, 2024 | Tweed Museum of Art, University of MInnesota, Duluth

Thunderbird Review: Volume 12

2024 Thunder Film Festival (Constellations)

Commission / portrait of Francis Fairbanks for Minneapolis American Indian Center 

2024 Timberwolves Basketball Women’s History Month Featured Artist

2023

Indigenous Artists of the Upper Midwest: Intersections of Art and Healing Group Exhibit / Gallery Marƶeń

October/November 2023 - Madison, WI

Group Exhibit / Washburn Cultural Center

October 2023 - Washburn, WI

Solo Exhibit / Superior Public Library

June 2023 - Superior, WI

Voices of Tomorrow Group Exhibit (youth project) / North Shore Bank of Commerce

Summer 2023 - Duluth, MN

Wakpa Triennial / St. Paul Public Library

September 2023 - St. Paul

Ruby Red: Group Anniversary Exhibit / Phipps Gallery

February 2023 - Hudson, WI

“Environmental Art Exhibition” / University of Connecticut

March 26, 2023 - Mansfield, CT

Ely Film Festival / Ely’s Historic State Theater

March 2023 - Ely, 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)

2023 Minnesota Timberwolves Basketball Own Your Canvas/City Edition Selected Artist (Duluth) 

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

 

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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 

 

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

 

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

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

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

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