About the Artist:
Jennifer is an Anishinaabe and Taíno transmedia artist who builds worlds through photography, illustration, installation, beads, and short fiction. She navigates levels of insulation in her work, working as an artist by day, a healer by night, and an author at sunrise. Enrolled in the Lac Courte Oreilles band of Lake Superior Ojibwe and the Higuayagua Taíno of the Caribbean, she draws deeply from personal and relational experience, regarding art as a toolkit for hope, resistance, medicine, and measured decomposition. She holds her degree in Studio Art from Dartmouth College as lock pick and disguise, using it to infiltrate institution and supplement her interrogation of a fine art world built on stolen land. Jennifer builds Indigenous futurist camps as mycelial wells of resource and replenishment, landing on settler-maps in “Eau Claire, WI” and “Nashville, TN”, and on real maps in Pakwewaang.
Current work:
An evolving multifaceted series—spanning across written, visual, and sound art—rooted in Indigenous Futurism and tackling the interface between tribal and national/international structures
A beaded and illustrated series centering traditional and survival foods within Indigenous culture
A beaded series celebrating Indigenous literatures
A photographic and portrait series investigating the compression, dilation, and rearrangement of light, space, and time
Within all of these series blooms a body of work centering resurgence and a crumbling of colonialism.