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Education

2000 Oregon State University, Bachelors of Fine Art: Applied Visual Arts

1995 University of Oregon, Major: Cultural Anthropology

1993 Linn-Benton Community College

Work Experience

2019-2022 Changing Currents: Tribal Youth Water Summit Director

2018-2019 Signal Fire Arts Board

2017-current OSU Renewable Materials advisory board

2016 Chemawa Indian High School: Cultural Arts Instructor

2016-2019 Oregon Public Broadcasting Community Advisory Board

2004-2018 Program Manager, The Journeys In Creativity Program, OCAC

2013-current The Longhouse Education and Cultural Center Advisory Board (TESC)

2012-current Kanim Associates LLC - Partner

2011-2013 Coquille Indian Tribe Culture Committee

2011 Big Brothers/Big Sisters- Portland Nat. Am. Advisory Board

2010, 2013 Queen’s coronation judge, Rose Festival, Portland OR

2009-2012 Board Member, Portland Inter-Tribal Canoe Club

2008-2010 Native American Art Council, Portland Art Museum vice-chair

2006-13,2015-19 The Mill Casino Gift shop Advisory Committee

2004-current The Mill Luck Salmon Celeb. Canoe Liaison and Race M.C.

2002-2004 ED Program Planning Specialist, Native American Youth Assoc.

2001 Adm. Asst & Bookkeeper, Miluk Development, Inc. Coos Bay

2000 Co-founder, Coquille Canoe Club, Coos Bay, OR

1999-2000 Lead Maintenance, Pacific Northwest College of Art,

1999 Director, Oregon Coast Intertribal Youth Camp, Coos Bay, OR

1996-1997 Chair Coquille Indian Tribe: Culture Committee, Coos Bay, OR

1995 Fellowship, American Indian Program, National Museum of Natural

History/Smithsonian, Washington D.C.

Presentations

2021 PSU Longhouse: Land Acknowledgement Panel (online)

2020 Friends Of Tryon Creek: Art & Nature Presentation (online)

2019 Institute for Tribal Government (PSU): Land Acknowledgements panel

2019 Oregon State University: Renewable Materials 101 class (lecture)

2018 The Old Church (Portland) -Native Art(s) Panel Discussion

2017 World Wood Day: “Roots”; Carving & Canoe Demo, LosAngeles CA

2017 Oregon State University Longhouse - Presentation

2016 InterTribal Forestry Council & SAF Conference, Spokane WA

2015 Leadership Portland Arts and Culture Day

2015 OCAC MFA program @ OHSM

2014 Tribal Energy Technology Tour - Hillsboro OR

2013 Regional Arts and Culture Council Grant Review Panelist

2013 Native Arts and Culture Foundation Grant Review Panelist

2013 Oregon Historical Society Museum (Docent Training Presentation)

2012 Regional Arts and Culture Council (Diversity Training Artist Panel)

2012, 2013 Chemawa Indian Boarding School: AVID Class

2012 Am. Indian Council of Architects and Engineers, Portland

2011 - 2015 Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe, Raymond WA

2011 Hallie Ford Museum, Salem OR (Opening of N.Art Wing)

2011 Native American & Friends Network, NIKE Beaverton OR

2011 PNW Tribal Canoe Delegation, Waitangi NZ

2011 Cathlapotle Plankhouse: Tribal Canoes & Paddles, Ridgefield WA

2010 “Conversations in Indian Country” Willamette Univ, Salem OR

2009 Native American Arts Council Annual Dinner, Portland Art Museum

2008, 2009 Indigenous Ways of Knowing Youth Conference, Portland OR

Art & Project Exhibitions

2022- in process “Future Memories of This Land”, Lewis & Clark College

2022 - in process Native Arts & Cultures Foundation building (formerly Yale Union)

2021 - in process Pacific Northwest College of Art (“Willek” sculpture)

2021- in process City of Portland Building (collaboration)

2021 “Braiding Sweetgrass” Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art - UO

2021 “Home Flight” University of Oregon blanket (co-designer)

2019-in process FSC OSU - Wakanim Artist Collaborative

2019 8th Generation Wool Blankets “Oregon Potlatch" blanket (w/T.Johnson)

2019 “Puhoro ō Mua, Puhoro ki tua”, Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, NZ

2019-2020 “IKANUM” Chachalu Museum, Grand Ronde OR

2019 30th Annual Coquille Indian Tribe Restoration, Coos Bay, OR

2019 "Oregon My Oregon” Oregon Historical Society Museum, Portland, OR

2018 In Red Ink!: Museum of Modern Art, LaConner WA

2017-2018 Native Arts & Culture Foundation Mentor/Apprentice Recipient

2017 Plankhouse Restaurant - Commission “Paddles of the WA&OR

2017 “Tears of Dukwbahl” - International Artist Gathering -Olympia WA

2016-2017 Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon

2016 “Deep Blue Sea”, A String of Pearls , Mission Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco CA

2016 20th Anniversary Exhibition, The Native American Longhouse and Cultural Center, The Evergreen

State College

2015 Nasomah Memorial Garden Sculpture - Collaboration w/Tony Johnson

2015 The Art of Grand Ronde - Chehalem Art Center, Newberg OR

2015 Crow’s Shadow Institute Print Show, Portland OR

2014 “The Laws of the Spirit Remain the Same”, San Francisco, CA

2014? KFarrell Smith & artists collaborative Drum Project

2014 Crow”s Shadow Institute Residency, Pendleton OR

2014 Kokiri Putahi Indigenous Artist Conference & Ngapuhi Arts Festival exhibition (Kaikohe, New

Zealand)

2014 The REACH Museum, Richland WA

2012 OSU Native American Longhouse-permanent installation (collaboration )

2012-2013 Portland State University – Native American Longhouse

2012 The Evergreen State College Carving Studio Opening Exhibit

2011-present Halle Ford Museum, Salem (N. American Art wing)

2010 Oregon Historical Society Museum, Education

2009 Bonnie Kahn’s “Wild West Gallery” (presentation & art show)

2008-present Mill Casino & Hotel Tower expansion, Canoe Paddles (lobby), Woodcut Prints and Pendleton Bed

Spread design (rooms)

2008 National Museum of American Indian, Washington D.C (Education Center) (instructors & youth

paddle carving exhibition)

2007 Oregon Historical Quarterly Summer 2007, illustrations

2006 Native Creative Artist Grant: Youth Printmaking Project

The Longhouse at Evergreen State College

2004-2020 The Mill Luck Salmon Celebration, (Illustrations) North Bend, OR

Instruction & Workshops

2022 UO Indigenous Womens Wellness “Clam Digging Workshop”

2021 Certificate in Tribal Relations PSU “Clam Digging Workshop”

2018 UO & Eugene Native Community: Paddle making workshop

2018 PPS Indian Ed. & Portland Parks - Root Digging tool Instructor

2017 Metro/Portland Zoo - Root Digging tool instructor

2015-18 Shoalwater Bay Indian Community - carving workshops and demo

2015-19 Grand Ronde Cultural Program - Carving Instructor

2015 Klamath Tribes Food Sovereignty Program - Um’da tool workshop

2015, 2016 Traditional Clam Shovel carving workshop - Coquille Indian Tribe

2013, 2016 Grand Ronde Cultural Program – Canoe Paddle Workshop

2013 Siletz Prevention Program– Sitka Art Center: Kupin & Clapper

2013 Shoalwater Bay Indian Community – Lacamas Stik Workshop

2012 Shoalwater Bay Indian Community & Chinook Indian Tribe

2012, 2015 Canoe Paddle Workshop Instructor – OCAC Extension Programs

2012 Instructor – Paddle workshop for Palouse Canoe Family skippers

2012 “Acorn Mush Paddle” Instructor – Siletz Youth Prevention(Portland)

2011 Canoe Paddle carving workshop –Journeys In Creativity August (OCAC)

2011, 2012 Canoe Paddle Carving Workshop – Grand Ronde Youth Ed. (OCAC)

2011 “Acorn Mush Paddle” carving instructor (Coos Bay, OR)

2011, 2012 Bone & Antler Carving workshop Co-Instructor (Otis, OR)

2010 Oregon Indian Education Association, Forge Fibulae Workshop & Education Department Mural

facilitation (Warm Springs, OR)

2008, 2010 Warm Springs Ed. Dept. Basketry (Warm Springs), Ceramics (OCAC)

2009 Indigenous Ways Of Knowing Program (Lewis & Clark College), PITCC-Canoe paddle carving (at OCAC)

2008 Klamath Tribes, Chiloquin, OR – Printmaking

2006, 2008 Coquille Indian Tribe Printmaking & paddle carving (Bridge/Coos Bay)

2006, 2007, 2008 Grand Ronde Youth Prevention, Printmaking & Silkscreen

2003, 2006 NAYA Family Center, Clam Digging & Printmaking workshops

Exhibition Management for A. Susana Santos’ Journeys in Creativity Program

2016-2018 The Vollum  Drawing, Painting and Photography Building, OCAC

2015 Chachalu Cultural Museum, Grand Ronde OR

2013 - 2015 The Maryhill Museum, Stevenson WA

2012 Confed. Tribes of Grand Ronde Education Center

2012 - 2015 The Vollum Drawing, Painting and Photography Building, OCAC

2011, 2012 Crow Shadow Institute, Pendleton OR

2011 - 2015 The Water Resource Education Center, Vancouver WA 

2007-2010 The Longhouse at the Evergreen State College, Olympia WA 

2005, 2006 The Museum at Warm Springs, Warm Springs OR 

2006, 2015 Art Adventure Gallery, Madras, OR 

2007, 2010, 2012 The Squaxin Island Tribal Museum, Shelton WA 

2007, 2008 The National Museum of the American Indian, Washington DC 

2008, 2009 The Confed. Tribes of Grand Ronde Tribal Governance Center

2009 The Oregon Historical Society Museum, Portland OR 

2008 Beaverton City Library, Beaverton OR 

2007 Beaverton City Hall, Beaverton OR

2007 Tigard Public Library, Tigard OR