About the Artist
Boozhoo indinawemaaganadog! Awanigiizhik Bruce indizhinakaaz. Waabi-ajijaak indoodem. Anishinaabe, Nehiyaw, Michif gaye dash indaaw. Niizhoomanidoowag bekish aayaakwe indaaw. Siipising indaa. Omaa Mikinaak-Wajing indoojibaa. Gakina dinowag mazinibii'iganikewinan nizaagitoon ji-ozhitooyaan. Miigwech ji-anamichigeyeg. Miigwech ji-adaawetawiyeg! Wii-mino-giizhigak! Mii sa iw.
Artist's Bio
Awanigiizhik Bruce (Mikinaak-Wajiw Anishinaabe, Nehiyaw, Michif) is a Two-Spirit diverse-media artist based on the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation. Their artistic practice traverses traditional and ceremonial Nehiyaw-pwat forms, mixed media, and multimedia work. Their primary mediums include ledger art, parfleche, quillwork, beadworking, painting, jewelry-making, and computer-coded LED art. Awanigiizhik’s art focuses on the Anishinaabe philosophy of Seven Generations, a code of ethics respecting ecological consciousness and Indigenous heritage. As an activist embodying this continuum central to their Tribal culture, Awanigiizhik brings practices from ancestral traditional revitalization to the exploration of Indigenous futurism. Awanigiizhik earned a BA in Ojibwe Language, Culture, and History at Turtle Mountain College. They spend much of the year completing site-specific and collaborative projects around the country, like murals in Duluth, MN and Belcourt, ND. Currently, they are developing a body of work synthesizing quillwork, birch-bark basketry, and robotics, and designing Ojibwemowin visual resources for Turtle Mountain College.