Art in Spaces
Imagery of art and past creations shown in everyday and other settings.
Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture, Jessie Wilber Gallery Space. My work, Indigenous Hillshade (2020) shown on the far wall.
Three cradleboards I've completed. I received Best in Show award and 1st Place in Category awards for the larger cradleboards at the Western Montana Fair, Missoula MT in 2019.
Indigenous Hillshade (2020) in Jessie Wilber Gallery of Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture.
Qwasqwi, Storm, Five Friends & the Canoe (2021). Side profile of ornamental Bitterroot Salish style cradleboard. This work was submitted to the 2021 Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market. Award: 63rd Annual Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market: 1st place award in Division D-Functional objects such as bows and arrows, cradleboards, bows, weapons, shields, furniture, lamps, musical instruments, bull roarers, beaded bottles, and other objects. Exhibition: "Expressions of Resilience" at Bigfork Arts & Cultural Center, 2021. Exhibition: "Finding Our Place: Beading and Weaving Our Culture Together" at City Scape Community Art Space in North Vancouver BC, 2021. It won the Eiteljorg Purchase Award at the Eiteljorg Indian Market in 2022 and is a part of the permanent collection of the museum.
Naayccstm (2020). Public artwork done in collaboration with the Department of Transportation, the community of Bonner, MT and Alex Alviar. After a brainstorming meeting, with all involved, Mr. Alviar digitized my sketch for this aboriginal territorial site of the Bitterroot Salish. It can be seen by river recreationalists, as they pass under I-90, on the Clark Fork River.
June 18, 2021. Sitting at Traveler's Rest State Park exhibiting beadwork.
The Search, Tipi Villa, and Qwasqwi, Storm, Five Friends & the Canoe, in the Expressions of Resilience exhibition, at the Bigfork Arts and Cultural Center, in Bigfork, MT. June 2021
Dare Me (2020). Fabric and seed beads. Collaboration with artist, Cristina Victor. Shown in Flourish: Come Hell or High Water exhibition, hosted by Open Air, at Gallery 709 in Missoula, MT. May 2021
Qwasqwi, Storm, Five Friends & the Canoe, Chmtews' Cradleboard, and Inshiyetkw's Cradleboard, shown in the Pushing Boundaries biannual exhibition, at the Cityscape Community Artspace, in North Vancouver BC. The exhibit was guest curated by Adele Arseneau (Nehiyaw/Metis). The show was called Finding Our Place: Beading and Weaving our Culture Together. Oct. 8-Nov. 13, 2021.
First solo show. Knowledge from Land exhibit at the University Center Gallery, in Missoula, MT. 2021
Book cover for The Salish Language (2021). Author, Tachini Pete.
The Search exhibited at the Three Chiefs Museum in St. Ignatius, MT, on the Flathead Reservation.
Indigenous Hillshade (2020). Shown in the We Are Still Here Revisited Exhibition (July 2021), in the Weaver Room, of the Emmerson Center for the Arts & Culture, in Bozeman, MT.
Chmtews' Cradleboard and Inshiyetkw's Cradleboard, shown at the Western Montana Fair, Native American Arts show. Placed Best of Show for 2019.
Beadwork set up at the 64th Annual Heard Guild Indian Fair and Market, Phoenix AZ, 2022.
Indigenous Paint Night in June 2022. Painted the wild rose which blooms in June in Montana.
Sitting at Traveler's Rest in Lolo MT 2022
Montana Folk Festival 2022, Butte MT
Picking up artwork at Santa Fe Indian Market 2022
Santa Fe Indian Market 2022, Booth CAT W 912
Indigenous paint night with chokecherries. September 2022
Signs of Autumn (2023). Heard Indian Market 2023. Honorable Mention.
Matriarch (2023) at Eiteljorg Indian Market and Festival 2023. Best of division and first place in beadwork category.
Thank you to Native American Arts Magazine for feature in Beadwork and Quillwork section for summer 2023 issue.
Matriarch (2023) at Santa Fe Indian Market (SWAIA) 2023. First place in Diverse Arts. Acquired by Smithsonian National Museum of American the Indian.
Go to the Water's Edge and Holler to Someone on the Other Side (2023). mulitmedia. Cityscape Community Art space, Pushing Boundaries: Our Home on Native Land Exhibition curated by, Sho Sho Esquiro 2023.
Indigenous Bitterroot Land (2021). multimedia. Permanent collection of Montana Museum of Arts and Culture.
For the Good of All Things Exhibition by Missoula Art Museum 2024
Salish Bitterroot Back Bag (2022). Cover art and feature in First American Art Magazine summer issue 2024.
Fully illustrated Ashiilia Kunnaalaau Absaaloke children's language book 2023