Art in Spaces

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.