Education
2018 M.F.A. – Print Media, Pacific Northwest College of Art - Portland, OR
2013 B.F.A. – Printmaking, Institute of American Indian Arts - Santa Fe, NM
Accepted Future Appointments
2025-27 Homelands, Group Exhibition, University of Tennessee - Knoxville, TN
Artist in Residence
2024 Kala Art Institute - Berkeley, CA
2023 Halden Bookworks - Halden, Norway
Nadia Sophie Seller AIR, UI Center for the Book - Iowa City, IA
Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts - Pendleton, OR
Township 10 - Marshall, NC
2022 Linfield University - McMinnville, OR
Institute of American Indian Arts - Santa Fe, NM
In Cahoots - Petaluma, CA
Hilliard Artist Visit, University of Reno-Nevada - Reno, NV
Indigenous Woman Atelier, Self Help Graphics - Los Angeles, CA
2019 Art-in-Ed Artist Book Residency, Women’s Studio Workshop - Rosendale, NY
2017-18 C3: Initiative – Working Library - Portland, OR
2017 Signal Fire – Great Blanket of Stars: SE Oregon Campout - Portland, OR
Awards, Grants & Fellowships
2024-25 In These Mountains Appalachian Folklife Apprenticeship Grant, North Carolina Arts Council
2024 Artist Book Production Grant, Women’s Studio Workshop – Rosendale, NY
2023-24 Artist Fellowship, Kala Arts Institute – Berkeley, CA
2023 Emerging Traditional Artist Grant, South Arts – Atlanta, GA
2021 Juror’s Choice Award, Focus on Book Arts - Forest Grove, OR
Coursework Award, New Prints Artist Development Program, International Print Center New York - New York, NY
2020 Juror’s Choice Award, MidAmerica Print Council Member’s Exhibition - Kent, OH
2018 MFA Thesis writing award, Pacific Northwest College of Art - Portland, OR
Artist Presentations & Panels
2024 Connecting the Dots: Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, Panel, Print Center New York, online
Presentation, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
Presentation, Institute of American Indian Arts, online
2023 Artist Talk, IBookbinding, online
Artist Talk, University of North Carolina-Asheville - Asheville, NC
Artist Demo & Talk, Museum of Cherokee Indian - Cherokee, NC
Arts, Community & Health, Presentation & Panel, Rooted in the Mountains Conference, Western North Carolina University - Cullowhee, NC
My hands remind me of yours, Presentation, University of Iowa - Iowa City, IA
Paper is People, Presentation & Panel, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, online
Telling Our Own Story, Panel, Carolina Mountains Literary Festival - Burnsville, NC
2022 my hands remind me of yours/our hands, Artist Talk, Linfield Gallery, Linfield University - McMinnville, OR
Paper-Weavings & Digital Design, Presentation, Black Rock Press, University of Nevada - Reno, NV
Ul’nigid’, Presentation, Asheville Art Museum - Asheville, NC
2021 Cultural Substates as Paper, Panel Discussion, North American Hand Papermakers Conference, online
Talking About Book Arts, Panel Discussion, Textile Talk, online
The MBS Show-and-Tell, Presentation, Moveable Book Society, online
Ul’nigid, Presentation, Asheville Art Museum, online
What is a Book?, Artist Q&A, University of Iowa, online
Where We Live, Panel Discussion, Focus on Book Arts Conference, online
Solo Exhibition
2024 Digegv, Hecho a mano - Santa Fe, NM
my hands are tied…, Poeh cultural center and museum - pojoaque, nm
2023 my hands remind me of yours/our hands, Fairbanks Gallery - Corvallis, OR
2022 my hands remind me of yours/our hands, Linfield Gallery - McMinnville, OR
2021 Kanosdaya, Hecho A Mano - Santa Fe, NM
Group Exhibition
2024 A Radical Alteration, San Francisco Center for the Book - San Francisco, CA
Holding Space: Woven Works, Chautauqua Institution – Chautauqua, NY
Textile Tactiles: Material, Method, and Concept in Artists’ Publications, Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2023-26 Connections in the Making, Center for Craft – Asheville, NC
2023-24 Paper is People, San Francisco Center for the Book – San Francisco, CA
2023 Paper is People, Minnesota Center for Book Arts - Minnesota, MN
Holding Pattern, Kentucky Museum of Craft - Louisville, KY
2022-23 Disruption, Museum of the Cherokee Indian - Cherokee, NC
2022 Reclaiming Identity, Trout Museum of Art - Appleton, WI
On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print, Loeb Art Center - Poughkeepsie, NY
FOBA Exhibit, Valley Art Gallery - Forest Grove, OR
2021 A Living Language, Cherokee Syllabary and Contemporary Art,
Museum of the Cherokee people - Cherokee, NC and Asheville Art Museum - Asheville, NC
Mapping Narratives: New Prints 2021/Winter, International Print Center of New York - New York, NY
2020 Untold Parallels, Mata Art Gallery - Los Angeles, CA
MidAmerica Print Council Member’s Juried Exhibition, Kent State University - Kent, OH
The Book as Art 8.0: Infinity, Decatur Arts Alliance - Decatur, GA
2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies - Portland, OR
Altered Landscapes, Southern Graphics Council International Conference – Las Vegas, NV
Resident Showcase, C3: Initiative – Working Library - Portland, OR
2017 Converge 45: KSMoCA International Art Fair, King School - Portland, OR
Just under 100: New Prints2017/Summer, International Print Center of New York - New York, NY
Caesura, Pacific Northwest College of Art - Portland, OR
2013 Octopus Dreams: 200 Works on Paper by Contemporary Native American Artists, 516Arts - Albuquerque, NM
Golden: BFA Thesis Show, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts - Santa Fe, NM
2012 Octopus Dreams: 200 Works on Paper by Contemporary Native American Artists,
Ekaterinberg Museum of Fine art; Ekatherinburg Museum of Fine Arts; Novosibirsk State Museum for the Arts; Tomsk Art Museum; Irkutsk Art Museum; Togliatti Art Museum; Samara Art Museum, Russia.
Publication
2023 Escape Tunnels, Small Craft Advisory Press – Tallahassee, FL
2022 Reminders Within, Black Rock Press - Reno, NV
2020 Ul’nigid’, Women’s Studio Workshop - Rosendale, NY
2017 Matrix Variable – Vol. 1, Watershed Publications - Portland, OR
2012 More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness: The FUNction of Art, Site Santa Fe/I.a.i.a. - Santa Fe, NM
Collections
Albert Solheim Library - Portland, OR
Alisa Banks, Personal Collection - Dallas, TX
Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh, PA
Archives & Special Collections Library, Vassar College - Poughkeepsie, NY
Artists’ Books and Fine Press, British Library - St. Pancras, London
Artists’ Books, Art, Architecture, and Engineering Library, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI
Artists’ Book Collection, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art – Bainbridge Island, WA
Artists’ Book Collection, Davis Library, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, NC
Artists’ Book Collection, Fine Arts Library, Harvard University – Cambridge, MA
Artists’ Book Collection, Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin – Madison, WI
Artists’ Book Collection, Pratt Institute Libraries – Brooklyn, NY
Asheville Art Museum – Asheville, NC
Baylor University Libraries, Baylor University – Waco, TX
Book Art Collection, Virginia Commonwealth University – Richmond, VA
Book Arts in Special Collections: Artist Books, University of Delaware – Newark, DE
Cary Graphic Arts Collection, Rochester Institute of Technology – Rochester, NY
Collections and Archives, Eric V. Hauser Memorial Library, Reed College – Portland, OR
Detroit Institute of Arts – Detroit, MI
Dewitt Wallace Library, Macalester College – St. Paul, MN
Distinctive Collections, Hayden Library, Arizona State University – Tempe, AZ
Eberly Family Special Collections Library, Penn State University – University Park, PA
George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library – Brunswick, ME
gochman family collection - new york city, Ny
Herman B Wells Library, Indiana University – Bloomington, IN
Library of Congress – Washington, DC
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries – Cambridge, MA
Museum of the Cherokee People – Cherokee, NC
The Newberry Library – Chicago, IL
Special Collections and Archives, Florida State University Libraries – Tallahassee, FL
Special Collections and Archives, Tutt Library, Colorado College – Colorado Springs, CO
Special Collections, Alfred R. Goldstein Library, Ringling College of Art + Design – Sarasota, FL
Special Collections, Denison Library, Scripps College – Claremont, CA
Special Collections, Main Library, University of Iowa – Iowa City, IA
Special Collections, Robert B. Haas Arts Library, Yale University – New Haven, CT
Special Collections, Smith College Library, Smith College – Northampton, MA
Special Collections, The Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library, Bucknell University – Lewisburg, PA
Special Collections at the Kislak Center, Otto G. Richter Library, University of Miami – Miami, FL
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas – Lawrence, KS
Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York, NY
Women’s Studio Workshop Archive – Rosendale, NY
Zuckerman Museum of Art – Kennesaw, GA