Dyani White Hawk earned her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2008. She’s a recipient of the 2019 United States Artists Fellowship inVisual Art, 2018 Nancy Graves grant for Visual Artists among many other grants and fellowships. Most notibily, she recently received the Star Tribune’s 2019 Artists of the Year, in which she shares this recognition with five other Indigenous artists in Minnesota. A powerful lineup that includes: Julie Buffalohead, Andrea Carlson,
Heid E. Erdrich, Louise Erdrich, and Delina White.

What makes Dyani so interesting and worth listening to is her disciplined approach to intentional planning and mapping of her path. A powerful lesson young artists need to listen to.