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Chelsea Kaiah
2023 Fellow
Chelsea Kaiah is a passionate activist for Native rights, awareness, and sustainability. Her practice involves adapting traditional materials and techniques, such as pine needle weaving, porcupine quilling, and hide work, to address resilience, mental health, system reformation, and means of healing. Kaiah is White River Ute and White Mountain Apache / Irish settler, born on the Northern Ute reservation. She earned her BFA at Watkins College of Art and Design in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2022, Kaiah was awarded the Native Arts and Cultures LIFT grant for early career support and wasinvited to participate in Redline’s Artist-in-Residency program for emerging, contemporary Colorado artists. She currently serves as part of the Indigenous Advisory Council for the Denver Art Museum after being their fall 2022 Native Arts Artist in Residence.
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