Awards
Lord Selkirk Regional Comprehensive Secondary School, Knowledge Keeper Award, 2026
University of Winnipeg, Graduate Student of Highest Distinction Award, 122nd Convocation Celebration, June 19, 2023
University of Saskatchewan's inaugural ohpinamake Indigenous art prize
McNally Robinson Book of the Year, 2020. Nominated for Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award and the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book.
Canada's Senate 150 medal recipient, November 29, 2017
Trailblazer Recipient, The Aboriginal Circle of Educators, Inc. at the 11th Annual A.C.E. Education Awards Banquet, Feb 16, 2017
City of Winnipeg's Making a Mark Award, 2015
Arts Education
Clay Workshop, for Indigenous Education, Upper Grand District School Board, at Akinomaagayagaamikoong, 2026
MICEC, Indigenous Clay Vessel Workshop, Winnipeg, MB, Aug 2024 - April 2025
Medalta, Workshop host, “Learning from the Land: Making Indigenous Vessels,” Medicine Hat, AB, August 9th – August 13, 2024
Art Gallery of Regina, Indigenous Clay Vessel Workshop with Star Blanket First Nation and the Comeback Society, Regina, SK., June 7 - 11, 2024
Nibi Gathering, Nettle cordage workshop & Sound performance, Bannock Point, Whiteshell Provincial Park, MB, May 23-26, 2024
Available for workshops, lectures
Projects
Public Art, The Winnipeg Foundation, 48” wide by 70” high Plexi panel, Trust, April 23, 2025
Public Art (Backdrop design), Only In the Darkness Can We See the Stars, Canadian Museum of Human Rights, March 2025
Lights On the Exchange - Allumez le Quartier, annual public art festival in the Exchange District, 2023-24.
Maada’oonidiwag (Coming together), Public Art Commission, Art Gallery of Guelph, 2022
Red River Innovation Centre's Roundhouse Floor design, Public Art Commission, April 29, 2022.
Exhibitions
Group Exhibition, nanâtohkokwâsowak
They sew patchwork blankets
Bidakiigiwewog
They put needles into fabric
co-curated by Jen Smith and Tarin Dehod, AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, SK,
May 8 to June 26, 2026
Group Exhibition, The Autry Museum, Future Imaginaries: Indigenous Art, Fashion, Technology, Los Angeles, CA, September 7, 2024 – June 21, 2026
Group Exhibition, McMaster Museum of Art, Ascending Horizons, curated by Alex Jacobs-Blum and Kim Anderson, January 8 - June 20, 2025
Group Exhibition, Rosemary Gallery, Confluence, curator Jaimie Isaac & Suzanne Morrissette, Winnipeg, MB, September 27 to November 27, 2024
Group Exhibition, Buhler Gallery, The Pluck of Water, curated by hannah_g, St.Boniface, MB, 12 September – 17 November 2024
Solo exhibition, Art Gallery of Regina, owîceskoyakinikewak, Regina, SK, August 8 - October 12, 2024
Group Exhibition, Art Gallery of Burlington, How Can I Know You?, Burlington, ON, Jan 19 - April 28, 2024
The Undead Archive
School of Art Gallery
University of Manitoba
Group Exhibition, Indian Theater, Hessel Museum of Art at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, curated by Candice Hopkins, June 24 - November 26, 2023
Nibi Gathering, 2024
Moving Matter: Between Rock and Stone, curated by Abigail Auld, University of Manitoba's School of Art Gallery, 2022
Gidamaji’igoomin maamikawiseyang gidoodaanaaminaan – Our spirit awakens when we remember our past
Manitoba Craft Council, 2022
GIIYAABI OMAA NINDAYAAMIN (WE ARE STILL HERE)
with accompanying learning tools by Renée McGurry.
Curated by Ann Davis, 2022
Kwaata-nihtaawakihk - A Hard Birth
Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2022
Birchbark Technology
Comox Vallery Art Gallery
Jan 18, 2020
Subsist
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Nov 2019 - May 3, 2020
Artist Talks
Keynote Address, 4th Annual Cultural Studies and Curatorial Practices Symposium, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB
July 29th, 2026
Beyond Function: Perceptions and Realities of Pottery Use by Northern Great Plains Communities, presented by Andrew Lints, KC Adams, and Garth Sutton
58th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association/51st Archaeological Society of Alberta Conference, Canmore, AB
May 9, 2026
owîceskoyakinikewak (means s/he shapes clay or mud), presentor
WIPCE 2025 Aotearoa
Aukland, NZ
Nov 20, 2026
Presentation, AAMG, Amplifying Relational Making in the University Art Gallery, Albuquerque, University of New Mexico, NM
June 23 - 27, 2025
NCECA, Panel Discussion, Salt Lake City, Utah
March 26 - 29, 2025
Book Reading, Prairie Fire's 50 over 50! launch, McNally Robinson, Winnipeg, Oct 10, 2024
Artist Talk, Art for Lunch, A Journey to Relational Making, University of Regina
Sept 27, 2024
Webinar, Panel Discussion, How Can I Know You? Art Gallery of Burlington, March 21, 2024
Panel Discussion: Unsettling the Spirits with KC Adams, Erika DeFreitas, Chris Dorosz, and Paul Robles
Thursday, October 19, 4:00-5:15 PM, Room 2M70, University of Winnipeg
"I Will Always Want to Come Home," BIG Small Talk, Interview with Sasha Kucas, Harbour Collective
July 22, 2023
Podcast Interview, Kiln Sitters with host Brendan Tang, 2023
Panel: Ecological Bodies The Gardiner Museum's Toward Future Bodies Clay Symposium, June 9-10, 2023
Keynote Address, STOKED: Canadian Clay Symposium, March 25, 2023
