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.

We are heartbroken to report that our friend and collaborator Lance Foster continued his journey January 12, 2025.

2024–2026 Collaborators
Ho-Chunk Nation Cultural Resources Division
  (Bill Quackenbush & staff)
Prairie Island Indian Community THPO
  (Franky Jackson, Noah White, & Joey Taylor)
Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
  (Stephanie Rogers, Executive & Artistic Director)

2025–2026 support
NEH Cultural and Community Resilience Grant.
This funding, 2/3 of our budget,
has been frozen by the White House.

Small Communities & Rural Placemaking Grant, Blandin Foundation.
Minnesota Arts Board
Red Wing Shoe Foundation

2024 support
Small Communities & Rural Placemaking Grant, Blandin Foundation
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.