Designs by

Selected Exhibits

Contemporary Indigeneity: The New Art of the Great Plains

Great Plains Art Museum

Lincoln, NE, 2014

 

On Fertile Ground: Native Artists in the Upper Midwest

All My Relations Arts

Minneapolis, MN, 2014

 

Artists Celebrating Explorers: Commemorating Lewis and Clark

North Dakota Museum of Art

Grand Forks, ND, 2007

 

Changing Hands: Art Without Reservations 2

Museum of Art and Design

New York, NY, 2006

 

Arrows of the Spirit
Mingei International Museum
San Diego, CA, 2000

 

Selected Awards

• Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair and Market, Phoenix, AZ, Andy Eisenberg Award for Contemporary Jewelry, 2015

• Red Cloud Indian Art Show, Pine Ridge, SD, First Place, Three-Dimensional, 2014

• Red Earth Festival, Oklahoma City, OK, President's Award, 2014

• Gathering of People,Wind and Water, Rapid City, SD, Innovation Award, 2014

• Pekin Days Art Show, Pekin, ND, Second Place, Traditional, 2014

• SWAIA Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM, 2011–2012

• Pekin Days Art Show, Pekin, ND, Best of Show, 2005

• Roughrider International Art Show, Williston, ND, Best of Show, 2001
   

• American Indian Art Festival, Dallas, TX, 1994

• Black Hills Art Show, Rapid City, SD, 1999, 1996

• Bismarck Art and Galleries Association, Bismarck, ND, 2000

• Cahokia Mounds Museum Art Show, Collinsville, IL, 2002, 2000, 1999

• Eiteljorg Indian Art Market, Indianapolis, IN, 2009, 2008, 2006–2001, 1998, 1997, 1995

• Haskell Indian Art Market, Lawrence, KS, 2006

• Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair, Phoenix, AZ, 2013, 2003, 2000, 1996

• Indian Arts Northwest Art Show, Portland, OR, 1998

• Intertribal Arts Experience, Dayton, OH, 1994

• Museum of Western Colorado, Grand Junction, CO, 1998

• Northern Plains Indian Art Market, Sioux Falls, SD, 2012–2008, 2006, 2003, 2001–1993

• Oscar Howe Museum, Mitchell, SD, 1996, 1995

• Pekin Days Art Show, Pekin, ND, 2006–2004, 2002, 2000, 1999

• Red Earth Art Festival, Oklahoma City, OK, 2013, 2011, 2009, 2008, 2005, 2004, 2002, 1998– 1996

• United Tribes Indian Art Expo, Bismarck, ND, 2000–1998, 1996–1993

 

Selected Honors

Seminar: The Socioeconomic and Religious Issues Surrounding Art and Addiction

School of Advanced Research, Indian Arts Resarch Center

Santa Fe, 2007

 

Red Earth Festival
Judge

Oklahoma City, OK, 2003

 

14th Annual Lawrence Indian Arts Show
Judge
Lawrence, KS, 2002

 

National Museum of the American Indian
Artist Fellowship

Washington, DC, and Suitland, MD, 1999

 

Public Collections

• Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN

• Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA

• Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC

 

Bibliography

• Dashnaw, Cindy. "The Nations Gather in Indianapolis." Native Peoples (May/June 2008).

• Diaz, RoseMary. "Top of the World Bound: Seven Pacific Northwest Coast, Alaskan, and Canaidan First Nations Artists Reflect on Challenge, Opportunity, and Santa Fe Indian Market." First American Art Magazine, No. 2 (Fall 2013): 40–51.

• Dubin, Lois Sherr. North American Indian Jewelry and Adornment: From Prehistory to the Present. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1999: 301.

• Jones, Arthur F. and Lucy Annis Ganje. Storytelling Time: Native North American Art from the Collections at the University of North Dakota. Manchester, VT: Hudson Hills Press, 2010.

• Little Thunder, Julie Pearson and Barbara Harjo. Artistic Tastes. Walnut, CA: Kiva Publishing, 1998. 

• Maki, Jasmine. "Lakota, N.D., artist's jewelry pieces purchased by prestigous museum." Grand Forks Herald (Nov. 8, 2013) | link

• McFadden, David Revere, and Ellen Taubman. Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 2 (Contemporary Native North American Art From West, Northwest & Pacific). New York: Museum of Arts and Design, 2006.

• Nightingale, Lewis. "Nelda Schrupp." Indian Art (Fall 1997): 50–53.

 

Representation

Akta Lakota Museum and Cultural Center

Chamberlain, SD

 

Home & Away Gallery
Kennebunkport, ME | link

Media

 

lapidary

metalwork

sculpture

2010 - present

2010 - present

Education

 

University of North Dakota

1990, Bachelor of Fine Arts

Visual Arts, with a minor in anthropology.

 

University of North Dakota

1993, Master of Fine Arts

Visual Arts, emphasis on metalsmithing, jewelry, and small sculpture