Education

2019 H. Stoll AG & Co. KG, Reutlingen, Germany — Industrial Knitting, M1 Plus

2013 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI — Bachelor of Fine Arts, Textiles

2008 Perpich Center for Arts Education, Golden Valley, MN — Visual Arts

Experience

2014 - 2023 Owner and Designer — Makwa Studio, Minneapolis, MN

2017 - 2019 Board Member — Minnesota Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN

2017 -2019 Youth Guild Instructor — Minnesota Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN

2015 - 2018 Gallery Manager — Two Rivers Gallery of the Minneapolis American Indian Center, Minneapolis, MN

2013 - 2015 Production Assistant — Custom Woven Interiors, Minneapolis, MN

2013 American Indian Museum Fellow — Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN

Solo Exhibitions

2023 Loves Me, Loves Me Not — Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN

2022 Just Friends — Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

2021 Dakobijige “She Ties Things Together” — Watermark Art Center, Bemidji, MN

2016 On Borrowed Time — Minnesota Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN

2016 Mending — Fogstand Gallery, Hualien, Taiwan

2014 Where I Fit — All My Relations Arts, Minneapolis, MN

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 Through Line — Cara Romero Photography, Sante Fe, NM

2023 Sharing Honors and Burdens Renwick Invitational — Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC

2022 Carriers for Posterity — Law Warschaw Gallery, St. Paul, MN

2022 Reclaiming Identity — Trout Museum, Appleton, WI

2021 The Human Scale — Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN

2019 Anxiety About the Precise Significance of the Present and Uncertainty About the Future — Film North, St. Paul, MN

2019 MN Artists Presents: Anat Shiner and Amal Rogers — Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

2019 How to Become Lost — Waiting Room, Edina, MN

2019 Waasamoo-Beshizi (Power Lines) — Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND

2018 Artists in the Kitchen — Minnesota Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN

2017 Then A Cunning Voice and A Night We Spend Gazing at Stars — Abrons Art Center and Randalls Island, New York, NY

2016 Observe. Record. Relate. — Minnesota Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN

2016 Skin(s) — Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN

2016, 2017 Sinew: Female Native Artists of the Twin Cities — Bloomington Arts Center, Bloomington, MN; Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN

2015, 2016 Arriving at Fresh Water: Contemporary Native Artists from Our Great Lakes — Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN;

Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND

2015 On Fertile Ground — All My Relations Arts, Minneapolis, MN

2012 DED UŋK’UŋPI—WE ARE HERE — All My Relations Arts, Minneapolis, MN

Curatorial Projects

2020 Passages — Minneapolis-St.Paul International Airport, Minneapolis, MN

2017 We the People — Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN

2017 Anishinaabe Arts Initiative — McKnight Foundation, Minneapolis, MN

2016 Reframe MN: Art Beyond A Single Story — All My Relations Arts, Minneapolis, MN

Residencies

2018 Institute of American Indian Arts, Sante Fe, NM

2016 Fogstand Gallery, Hualien, Taiwan

2013 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

Selected Press

2024 Roxanne Hoorn — Team Kwe honors their Anishinaabe roots in the art and sport of snow sculpting, Atlas Obscura, Brooklyn, NY

2023 Vincent Schilling — Sharing Honors and Burdens: Smithsonian Exhibition Shows Indigenous Artists Carrying Their Ancestors’

Messages Forward, Vol. 24 No. 4, American Indian Magazine, Washington, D.C.

2023 Katherine Boyce — Maggie Thompson exhibits in the Renwick Invitational in Washington, D.C., Northeaster, Minneapolis, MN

2023 Chadd Scott — Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Invitational Features Six Contemporary Indigenous Artists, Forbes

Magazine, Jersey City, NJ

2023 Murat Cem Mengüç — 10 Art Shows to See in Washington, DC, This Summer, Hyperallergic, New York, NY

2023 Mark Jenkins — The Renwick Invitational showcases contemporary Native craft, Washington Post, Washington D.C.

2018 Lauren Sauer — Bridging the Gap, The Growler, St. Paul, MN

2017 Megan Guerber — American Craft Magazine, American Craft Council, Minneapolis, MN

2017 Gia Kourlas — Under the Stars and Quilts, With Randalls Island as Her Stage, New York Times, New York, NY

2017 Shelia Regan — Redefining American Art Through an Intersectional Lens, Hyperallergic, New York, NY

2016 Twin Cities PBS — Minnesota Original, St. Paul, MN

2016 Andrea Carlson — Art Review - On Borrowed Time: Postponing the Inevitable, The Circle News, Minneapolis, MN

2014 Mary Abbe — Artists Weave their Stories into Textiles at Two Minneapolis Galleries, Star Tribune, MN

Collections

2024 Knitwear — Goldstein Museum, Falcon Heights, MN

2023 On Loving — Tia Collection, Sante Fe, NM

2023 Loves Me, Loves Me Not — Tia Collection, Sante Fe, NM

2023 Departure — North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND

2022 In Gratitude — Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH

2022 Quantum Entanglement — Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN

2022 Intentions — Private Collector, Minneapolis, MN

2020 Ribbon and Protest Masks — Field Museum, Chicago, IL

2020 Ribbon Mask — Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN

2015 Family Portrait — Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN

2015 Assumptions — Private Collector, Minneapolis, MN

2012 Weight on My Shoulders — Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN

Selected Awards

2023 All My Relations and Bockley Gallery Jim Denomie Scholarship

2023 Jerome Foundation Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship

2023 First Peoples Fund Seeding Cultural Treasures Grant

2016 Minnesota State Arts Board Cultural Community Partnership Grant

2015 Minnesota Textile Center Jerome Fiber Arts Grant

2015 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Regional Fellowship

2013 Textile Center Award for Excellence and Innovation

2008 - 2012 Fond Du Lac Tribal Scholarship Award

2008 - 2012 Rhode Island School of Design Scholarship Award