Mississippi Dialogues is a public art project reimagining possibilities for Mississippi River flood management through situated cartographic design. I am mapping public testimonies about flooding into a Mississippi transformed by Indigenous ways of talking about water and flooding, in collaboration with the Nations whose homelands include the River. The destination is a series of large-format map panels to be installed at outdoor, publicly-accessible venues along the river (parks and exterior walls), with an accompanying guidebook.

2024–2026 Collaborators
Ho-Chunk Nation Cultural Resources Division
  (Bill Quackenbush & staff)
Prairie Island Indian Community THPO
  (Franky Jackson, Noah White, & staff)
Iowa Tribe of Kansas & Nebraska
  (Lance Foster & staff)
Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
  (Stephanie Rogers, Executive & Artistic Director)
Lake Pepin Legacy Alliance
  (Rylee Hince, Executive Director)

2024 support
Guggenheim Foundation

2019–2023 support
Yaddo, Art Omi, American Philosophical Society, CNAIR / Northwestern University, The Anderson Center, A Studio in the Woods, and the Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund.



MEDIA

Proximal Braveries, with Kelly Wisecup. For Indigenous Mississippi: Indigenous Art & Activism of the Mississippi River. A Humanities without Walls project.

Adaptations Residency video produced by A Studio in the Woods.