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Acrylic on wood panel
20 × 29
Held Together is a painting about connection, prayer, and the strength we find in one another during times of fear and grief. The work portrays myself alongside a fellow jingle dress dancer. During the Metro Surge, we gathered with community members and brought our jingle dress dance to the sites of the shootings. We danced not to erase the pain, but to stand together within it—to offer prayer, healing, and a reminder that our communities continue to care for one another.
The jingle dress dance carries a history of healing within Ojibwe/Anishinaabe communities and has since been gifted to other Tribal communities. Held Together speaks to the ways we hold one another up through ceremony, movement, friendship, prayer, and community.
We are connected not only through dance, but through the responsibility to show up for one another. The painting honors the strength of Native women and dancers who carry healing forward while acknowledging the grief that surrounds us.
Acrylic on canvas, with an attached kokom scarf that was danced with, jingles, and additional ICE Alert whistles from the day we gathered to dance in community.
Acrylic on wood panel
20 × 29
Held Together is a painting about connection, prayer, and the strength we find in one another during times of fear and grief. The work portrays myself alongside a fellow jingle dress dancer. During the Metro Surge, we gathered with community members and brought our jingle dress dance to the sites of the shootings. We danced not to erase the pain, but to stand together within it—to offer prayer, healing, and a reminder that our communities continue to care for one another.
The jingle dress dance carries a history of healing within Ojibwe/Anishinaabe communities and has since been gifted to other Tribal communities. Held Together speaks to the ways we hold one another up through ceremony, movement, friendship, prayer, and community.
We are connected not only through dance, but through the responsibility to show up for one another. The painting honors the strength of Native women and dancers who carry healing forward while acknowledging the grief that surrounds us.
Acrylic on canvas, with an attached kokom scarf that was danced with, jingles, and additional ICE Alert whistles from the day we gathered to dance in community.