EDUCATION
MASTERS OF FINE ARTS - 3- DIMENSION ART May 1998
UW- MADISON Madison, WI
MASTER OF ARTS - CERAMICS May 1996
UW- MILWAUKEE Milwaukee, WI
BACHELOR OF ARTS - CERAMIC SCULPTURE May 1994
UW- MILWAUKEE Milwaukee, WI
RECIPIENT
Mary L Nohl Fellowship Established Artist 2022
Foundation for Contemporary Art micro grant 2021
Finalist Mary Nohl Fellowship 2021
Finalist Mary Nohl Fellowship 2020
AOP Fellowship 1994
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
INVITATIONAL:
2023 Mary Nohl, Haggerty Museum, Milwaukee, WI
2023 Traveling: No Rest: The Epidemic of Stolen Indigenous Women, Girls, & Two Spirits
2023 TBD, Charles Ellis Museum, Milwaukee, WI
2022 Blood Memories: Truax Gallery, Madison College, Madison, WI
2022 Woodland Pattern 40th, MIAD Gallery, WI
2022 SOLO: Erasure, Visibility and Resilience: Justice, Sweet Briar University, Sweet Briar, VA
2022 No Rest: The Epidemic of Stolen Indigenous Women, Girls, & Two Spirits, Washakie Museum, Worland, Wyoming
2022 Reclaiming Idenity: Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI
2022 Noojimo Healing: All My Relations Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2022 Three Faces of Eve: 5 Points Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2022 Wisconsin Biennial: Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI
2022 A Legacy of Indigenous Perspectives: Union Gallery UW- Madison, Madison, WI
2022 No More Stolen Sisters: RAHR Museum, Manitowoc, WI
2022 Sign of the Times (collaboration): Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI
2021 No More Stolen Sisters: Walkers Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
2021 C is for Conversation: MARN, Milwaukee, WI
2021 SOLO: Erasure, Visibility and Resilience: Wriston Art Gallery, Appelton, WI
2021 Collections of Final Warnings, St. Kate Hotel Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2021 Claiming Space: Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI
2021 This is America: 5 Points Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2021 Alien Invasion: Racine Art Museum, Racine WI
2021 COVID Memorial Public Artwork: Jazz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2021 Vulnerable Bodies, James Watrous Gallery, Madison, WI
2020 From the Heart: Racine Art Museum, Racine WI
2020 Stolen Sisters: Crossman Gallery, UW-Whitewater, WI
2020 SOLO:Good to the Last Drop: EdgeWood Gallery, Madison, WI
2019 Mend: University of North Alabama, Florence, AL
2019 Persistant: Yonder Gallery, Algoma, WI
2019 10 Wisconsin Sculptors, Not Just a Boy’s Club: UWM Union, Milwaukee, WI
2019 Sampling: Scout Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2019 There Again, The Disappearance: Woodland Pattern Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2019 SOLO: Unlearning Silence: Silver Lake College, Manitowoc, WI
2018 Revive: 5 Points Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2018 Mend: Mad Eye Studio Gallery, NYC, NY
2018 POP Culture: Redline Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2018 Water Works: Redline, Milwaukee, WI
2018 Jackson Redmon: Magnet Factory, Milwaukee, WI
2018 Native Voices: Walkers Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
2018 Water: James May Gallery, Algoma, WI
2018 Reading Material: Crossman Gallery, UW-Whitewater, WI
2017 Culture Jam Six MKE- True Lies: RedLine Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2017 Milwaukee Culture: Alpha Bang Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2016 Culture Jam Five MKE- Revolution: RedLine Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2016 Swan: RedLine Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2015 Her Story: Live Artist Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2015 Culture Jam Four MKE: Truth be Told, Milwaukee, WI
2015 Culture Jam Three MKE: Guns and Money, Milwaukee, WI
2014 Culture Jam Two MKE: Easily Discarded, Milwaukee, WI
2014 Milwaukee Clay: NCECA, Milwaukee, WI
2011 The Structure of Balance: Keller Building, Milwaukee, WI
2010 Balance and Tension: Uihlein Peters Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2009 Painful Paradox: Alverno College Art and Cultures Gallery, Milwaukee, W
JURIED:
2017 Water: James May Gallery, Algoma, WI
2017 Feminism: Var Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2016 Waysides: John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2015 Folktales & Legends: John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2014 Scope Art Expo, Miami, Fl
2014 SeeMe Times Square Digital Show, NYC, New York
2014 Quartz Inversion, NCECA: Concordia University, Mequon, WI
2013 Scope Art Expo, Miami, Fl
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA
2022 No More Stolen Sisters, WUWM Milwaukees NPR, https://www.wuwm.com/2022-03-04/no-more-stolen-sisters-highlights-the-crisis-of-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-and-girls
2021 Interview Kill the Indian Save the Man, My GG story, Museum of Wisconsin Art, https://youtu.be/lXrHah28tIg
2020 Hope in the Indigenous Renaissance, Wussy Magazine, https://www.wussymag.com/ all/2020/6/26/hope-in-the-indigenous- renaissance
2020 Featured artist in Stolen Sisters, New Art Examiner
2020/2019 This is Milwaukee Project: www.thisismilwaukee.us/valariatatera2019
2020 Featured artist in Mend
2019 Featured Artist in Milwaukee Journal : MMIWG https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/arts/2019/09/04/milwaukee-artist-honors-missing-and-murdered-native-american-women/1401230001/
2018 Featured artist in Reading Materials
2018 Featured artist in Native Voices
2016 Radio show Subtle Forces:Water Crisis
2016 Featured Artist Milwaukee Journal http://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/arts/artcity/
2016 Featured Artist in the book: Her Story
SELECTED SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2021 Guest Lecturer, Indigenous Visibility, University Lawrence University, Appleton, WI
2021 Guest Lecturer, Artist Now, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
2021 Guest Lecturer, Indigenous Diaspora, UW- Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
2021 Panelist at 4W and WGSC Conference: Resistance and Reimagination: Gender, Change and the Arts
2020 Guest Lecturer and Panelist, Good To The Last Drop, Edgewood College, Madison, Madison, WI
2019 Panelist, Not Just a Boy’s Club, UW Milwaukee, Milwaukee,WI
2019 Guest Lecturer, Indigenous Rights and Art as Advocacy: Unlearning Silence, Silver Lake College, Manitowac, WI
2018 Guest Speaker Community Activated Medicine Forum: Healing our Generations: Genocide and Its Legacy, Milwaukee, WI
2017 Guest Lecturer, Indigenous rights and Art as Advocacy: Unlearning Silence, UW- Whitewater, Whitewater, WI
SELECTED W0RKSHOPS
2021 Clay Workshop: Squash Blossoms, University Lawrence University, Appleton, WI
2021 Clay Workshop: Squash Blossoms with Daughters of Traditions, HIR Wellness Center, Milwaukee, WI
2020 Clay Workshop: Edgewood College, Madison, Madison, WI
2019 Community Activated Art project Heart Strings MMIWG2S, Milwaukee,WI
2019 Workshop: Squash Blossom for MMIWG Forum, HIR Wellness Center, Milwaukee, WI
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Native Initiative Committee 2022-
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
CERAMIC INSTRUCTOR 2016 - 2018
MURRAY HILL POTTERY Milwaukee, WI
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE April 2016 - 2018
WOODLAND PATTERN Milwaukee, WI
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE September 2008 - June 2015
ARTIST WORKING IN EDUCATION Milwaukee, WI
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE SCULPTURE June 2010 - August 2012
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOL SUMMER PROGRAMMING Milwaukee, WI
ASSOCIATE CERAMIC INSTRUCTOR September 2006 - January 2007
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN- PARKSIDE Racine, WI
ART INSTRUCTOR August 2007 - June 2009
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM Milwaukee, WI
CERAMIC INSTRUCTOR May 1994 - December 2005
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN- MILWAUKEE CRAFT CENTER Milwaukee, WI