Natchez Beaulieu, Waabigwanikwe (Flower Woman), is an Anishinaabekwe from the White Earth Nation, born and raised in South Minneapolis. She is a full-time artist, teaching art and working on commissioned projects in her community. Her art journey began with mural making through a group called Neighborhood Safe Art. During her summers in high school, she learned under Marilyn Lindstrom’s mentorship, creating many outdoor acrylic murals throughout the Twin Cities. Recently, she’s been focused on mosaics to showcase her Ojibwe floral designs and Indigenous knowledge. In collaboration with organizations in the Native American Community, she has completed several projects, two of which are on the American Indian Cultural Corridor including the mosaic on the medicine garden at the Native American Community Clinic. Over two summers, she collaborated with the Good Space to engage Indigenous youth on a mosaic mural called Zoongidewin in the Little Earth Community. In 2017, she worked with students in the Osseo and Minneapolis Public Schools Indian Education programs, creating culturally significant art. During the summer of 2019, she was hired by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts to facilitate a youth mural project with ten young women for The Hearts Of Our People exhibition.

Marlena Myles, Spirit Lake Dakota, Mohegan, and Muscogee artist, is based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Myles’s practice centers on Indigenous history, language, and the inclusion of both within modernity. By suggesting a continued Dakota culture that is illustrated within the digital sphere, Myles is portraying Native people in a space that others do not expect to witness Indigenous people and in a particular medium–as modern people utilizing the same technologies. Some of her most recent work includes an augmented reality installation, Spirit Door, at the Franconia Sculpture Park and a community cradleboard project with Dakota County Library. She is also creating new work for the Weisman’s upcoming exhibition, Merciless: Indigenous Lands Since 1776, which will open in September 2026. 

Missy Whiteman (Northern Arapahoe and Kickapoo) is an Emmy-nominated writer, director, producer and multi-media artist. Missy understands her work to be a voice for her ancestors, their stories and ancestral wisdom. Her late father, Ernest Whiteman, influenced her work with the gift of artistic vision and practice of art as a ceremony.

Many of Missy’s films have screened on international, national and local venues such as Walker Art Center, National Geographic All Roads Festival and Bilabo Spain. Missy is a current recipient of the McKnight Fellowship for Media Arts, a Forecast Public Art Mid-Career grant and is the alumni of The Sundance Native Lab Fellowship and Jerome Fellowship for her short film project The Coyote Way: Going Back Home. Her current project, The Coyote Way X: Expanded Cinema is a multidimensional cinematic experience of The Coyote Way: Going Back Home short film intertwined with performance, live score, video mapping and 360/VR.