My artwork is highly responsive to advocacy issues that threaten the lands, waters, and traditional lifeways of my homelands. Through my climate advocacy leadership, I have sought not just an artistic outlet for myself, but to connect and collaborate through artwork as a means of expressing climate grief, community, and the contemporary resurgence of traditional Alaska Native lifeways that will bring healing from the crisis at hand. My artwork has spanned many mediums including graphite and charcoal, acrylic, watercolor, photo collage, and traditional regalia materials including hide, beads, dentalium and quills, as well as songwriting and vocal arts. Currently, I am interested in the intersection of these mediums to communicate the nexus of Indigenous tradition, contemporary social issues, and new and revelatory solutions.

My artwork is deeply informed by my professional advocacy work as an Indigenous climate justice leader of over ten years. My current theme of work bridges performance and activism, challenging expected norms and bringing attention to the underrepresentation of Indigenous voices in decision-making and governance. While moving through prestigious decision-making spaces and high-level meetings, I have understood the opportunity for art to become embodied performance–to communicate, educate, and evoke emotion while paired with clear climate demands to protect not only the traditions that taught creation of our regalia, but the very materials used, and the healing conversations that are held by community while creating together. In this aim, I draw on inspiration from home to create traditionally-inspired wearable pieces that I then bring into contentious political spheres–sparking conversation and reflection on inclusion and impact. In doing so, my pieces become armor to accompany me through inhospitable environments– and through my artwork my communities and my ancestors speak through me.