The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) recognizes Women’s History Month and honors contemporary Native and non-Native women artists, filmmakers, poets, writers, curators, art professionals, academics, and students who worked, exhibited, or presented at MoCNA in 2017. These amazing women continue to break barriers and bring a feminist discourse to the forefront. They are outstanding in their fields, hold important roles in our communities, and their narrative is echoed in their practice. We applaud and support contemporary Native and non-Native women in the arts.

Honored

Shawndi Appah (Northern Ute) + Lynne Allen (Hunkpapa Lakota descent) + Pitseoloak Ashoona (Inuit) + Marcella Apodaca + Kaye Ahmed + Barbara Arlen + Ashley Browning (Pojoaque/Santa Clara) + Natalie Ball (Modoc/Klamath) + Beezy Bing + Joyce Blalock + Ellen Boozer + Heidi Brandow (Diné/Native Hawaiian) + Amber-Dawn Bear Robe (Blackfoot) + Cindy Benitez + April Bojorquez (Chicana/Rarámuri) + Tracy Curley (Navajo) + Courtney Moyah (White Mountain Apache/Akimel O’odham/Tohono O’odham) + Avis Charley (Spirit Lake Dakota/Navajo) Rose Marie Cutropia + Sonya Kelliher-Combs (Iñupiaq/Athabaskan) + Kelly Church (Match-e-be-nash-she-wish band of Ottawa/Potawatomi) + Vivian Carroll (Cherokee) + Veronica Clark + Yve Chavez (Tongva) + Nanibah Chacon (Navajo/Chicana) + Melissa Cody (Navajo) + Leanne Campbell (Coeur d’Alene) + Velma Kee Craig (Navajo) + Brandee Caoba (Ohkay Owingeh descent) + Miria Caldwell + Emma DeMarr (Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe) + Mary Deleary (Deshkan Ziibiing Anishinaabekwe) + Katharina Deiter (Peepeekisis First Nation) + Deana Dartt (Coastal Band Chumash) + Mary Eder (Sioux) + Lara M. Evans (Cherokee) + Haley English (Red Lake/Turtle Mountain Chippewa) Erin Elliot (Poarch Creek) + Jean Mertz Edwards + Phyllis Fife (Muscogee Creek) + Anita Fields (Osage/Muscogee Creek) + Ryan Feddersen (Confederated Tribes of the Colville/Okanogan and Arrow Lakes) + Maria Favela + Lisa Fulton + Shan Goshorn (Eastern Band Cherokee) + Janice George (Squamish Nation) + Rebecca Gough + Balitronica Gómez (Chicana) + Mirta Galesic + Andrea R. Hanley (Navajo) + Kalikolehua Hurley (Native Hawaiian) + Lucille Hyeoma (Hopi) + Courteney Handy + Candice B. Hopkins (Tlingit) + Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne/Hodulgee Muscogee) + Paige Hannan (Shinnecock Nation) + Aurélie Journee + Merritt Johnson (Mixed descent/Mohawk/Blackfoot/Non-Indigenous) + Savannah Junes (San Juan) + Emily Johnson (Yup’ik) + Chris Kemper + Eslee Kessler + Agnes Koury + Linda Lucero (Jemez) + Alice Loiselle (Chippewa) + Delores Lee (Paiute) + Athena LaTocha (Hunkpapa Lakota/Keweenaw Bay Ojibwe) + Linda Lomahaftewa (Hopi/Choctaw) + Evelina Zuni Lucero (Isleta/Ohkay Owingeh) + Dominika Laster + Madeline Lott + Erica Lord (Athabaskan) + Tania Larsson (Gwich’in/Swedish) + Cheena Lujan (Santa Ana/Santa Clara) + Frances Makil (Hopi/Akimel O’odham) + Sheridan Macknight (Hunkpapa Lakota) + Donna Martinez (Acoma/Taos) + Gloria Miguel + (Kuna/Rapphannock) + Wanesia Misquadace (Fond Du Lac Ojibway band, Minnesota Lake Superior Chippewa) + Lorenza Elena Marcais + America Meredith (Cherokee) + Amy Malbeuf (Métis) + Melissa Melero-Moose (Northern Paiute) + Maria Hupfield (Anishinaabe-kwe/Wasauksing First Nation) + LaShawn Medicine Horn (Yankton Sioux) Edna Massey (Cherokee) + Shelly McIntire (Chippewa) + Maria Martinez (San Ildefonso) + Maggie Magee + Martha Nielsen (Kokhanok Village) + Jamie Natonabah (Navajo) + Aysen New + Eliza Naranjo Morse (Santa Clara) + Shelley Niro (Bay of Quinte Mohawk) + Meghann O’Brien (Haida/Kwakwaka’wakw) + Nami Okuzono (Japan) + Luci Ordaz + Patsy Phillips (Cherokee) + Annie Pootoogook (Inuit) + Napachie Pootoogook (Inuit) + Gabriela Pacheco + Rachelle Pablo (Diné) + Connie Red Star Price (Crow) + Elaine Rice (Tuscarora/Seneca) + Mattie Reynolds (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) + Kristine Ronan + Carmen Selam (Yakama) + C. Maxx Stevens (Seminole/Mvscogee Nation) + Rolande Souliere (Michipicoten First Nation) + Michelle Stokes (Cherokee) + Jewel Shaw (Cree/Métis) + Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (French-Cree/Shoshone/Salish) + Stephanie Stewart (Diné/Kiowa) + Joanne Shenandoah (Iroquois) + Merry Scully + Suzanne Somers + Nancy Susman + Sallie Wesaw Sloan (Eastern Shoshone) + Odessia Serawop (Northern Ute Uncompahgre Band) + Tatiana Lomahaftewa-Singer (Hopi/Choctaw) + Ka’ila Farrell-Smith (Klamath/Modoc) + Evelyn Teton (Shoshone/Bannock) + Jennie Trujillo (Taos) + Samantha Tracy (Diné) + Charlene Teters (Spokane) + Willow Tomeo (Confederated Tribes of Colville) + Judy Vicenti (Jicarilla Apache) + Charlene Vickers (Anishinaabe) + Dawna Walters (Diné) + Juanita Waukaszo (Chippewa) + Crystal Worl (Tlingit/Athabascan) + Celeste Worl (Tlingit) + Marie K. Watt (Seneca) + Emmi Whitehorse (Navajo) + Tania Willard (Secwepemc Nation) + Manuela Well-Off-Man + Dyani White Hawk (Sicangu Lakota) + Joslyn Werner + Melanie Yazzie (Diné) + Charletta Yazzie (Diné) + Rhiana Yazzie (Navajo) + Stephanie Zuni