Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
Lydia Cheshewalla is a transdisciplinary artist from Oklahoma, living and working in motion throughout the ecological landscape of the Great Plains. As an Osage woman, her work primarily focuses on community, emotional awareness, environmental justice, ephemerality, kinship, and art as healing action. She is currently working on becoming.
Cheshewalla has recently shown her work in Omaha, Nebraska in a solo exhibit with the Union for Contemporary Art and in a collaborative exhibit with Amplify Arts in their Generator Space. She has worked with companies such as Mass Appeal Media and Google to help guide and create projects that highlight Indigenous artistry, studio assisted for artists such as Joy Harjo, and sat on the board of PostTraditional, an Indigenous arts collective in Oklahoma. In 2020, she attended the Tallgrass Artist Residency and spent the folowing year learning prescribed burning and land management practices for prairie lands in Nebraska, furthering her collaborations with scientists and ecologists.
In Tulsa, Oklahoma from 2016-2018 Cheshewalla led community peer support circles, writing ceremonies, and formed a femme-identifying arts collective called Holy Mother that would serve as a hub for mutual aid, elevation of women in the local arts, and an experiment on running unfunded organizations in a lateral leadership model. She was a 2018 fellow with the Oklahoma Center for Humanities fellowship program and presented a TedxUTulsa speech on global citizenry.