Stella Nall: Offering From My Heart

Stella Nall: Offerings from My Heart

October 3-December 27

Stella Nall “Bisháakinnesh” (Rode Buffalo) is a multimedia artist and poet and a First Descendant of the Crow tribe. Since earning her BFA at the University of Montana in 2020, Nall has burst onto the art scene with her distinctive and recognizable imagery. Nall combines painting with print-making techniques and beadwork to create narrative work that wrestles with her individual experience as a mixed-race Indigenous woman but also work that speaks to the shared human experiences of love, grief, joy and identity. A main theme that Nall focuses on, and is a large part of this exhibition, centers on her experiences as the first generation of her family to be denied enrollment in the Crow tribe.

“I want to clearly show the pain of this experience and highlight and celebrate my connection to my family and our culture despite this challenge,” she says. “As a first descendant, I am unable to vote on tribal matters and have gravitated towards making artwork to share my voice.”