CV
Anangookwe Wolf
New York, New York
Education
2019, BFA Cum Laude, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Group Exhibitions
2025 Weaving Words, Weaving Worlds: The Power of Indigenous Language in Contemporary Art, Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook, New York
2021 “Preserve & Protect,” The New Gallery, Clarksville, Tennessee
2021 “Untouchable Artifacts” Five Oaks Museum, Portland, Oregon
2020 “Masks for M.U.I.D, All My Relations Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2020 “Consilience” Form and Concept, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2019 IM: EDGE, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2019 Site Scholar Exhibition, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2019 “Matriarchs” Balzer Gallery at Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2019 “The Future of Art: A Disruptive Futures Dialogue”, Vital Spaces, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2019 “#NoFilter: IAIA 2019 BFA Exhibition”, Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Performances
January 2025, 51st Annual New Year’s Day Marathon, Poetry Project, New York, New York
August 2024, Open Mic, Relative Arts, New York, New York
June 2024, Indigenous Nations Poets Readings, St. Paul, Minnesota
April 2024, Kinstillatory Mappings in Light & Dark Matter, New York, New York
March 2024, Open Mic, Relative Arts, New York, New York
February 2024, Open Mic, Mas House, Shinnecock Reservation, New York
April 2023, Edutainment Night, The Writers Block, Anchorage, Alaska
Writing & Artist Residencies
2024 Anderson Ranch Visiting Artist, Snowmass Village, Colorado
2024 American Indian Community House, Governors Island, New York
2024 Mas House, Shinnecock Reservation, New York
2024 Green Olive Arts, Tetouan, Morocco
2023 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
Accolades & Awards
2024 Empowering Arts & Creativity Micro-Grant, Seventh Generation Fund
2024 Indigenous Library Program Steward, Little Free Library
2024 Indigenous Nations Fellow, Indigenous Nations Poets
2024 Cultural Capital Fellowship, First Peoples Fund
2023 Career Opportunity Grant, Alaska State Council on the Arts
2023 James Welch Prize For Indigenous Poets, Honorable Mention
2019 SITE Scholar, SITE Santa Fe
2015 Inaugural Allan Houser Scholar
Panelist
2024 Artist in Business Leadership Fellowship Panelist, First Peoples Fund
2024 Native Performing Arts Fellowship Panelist, First Peoples Fund
Collections
Gochman Family Collection
Community Engagements
American Indian Community House, New York, New York
Visiting Arts Instructor
Regalia Making Series
Over two, four-hour workshops, I taught 10 participants basic sewing and drafting techniques for creating their dancing regalia. Assisted younger participants with the “anatomy” of a sewing machine, so by the end of the first session, they were able to successfully thread, adjust tension, and run a sewing machine with little assistance.
Green Olive Arts, Tetouan, Morocco
Visiting Arts Instructor
Dentalium Earring Workshop, January 2024
After providing an overview of the history of Dentalium shells as a significant cultural material for adornment for many Indigenous Tribes and as a symbol of wealth, I demonstrated how to make two-tier Plains-style dentalium earrings. With the assistance from Rachel—director of Green Olive Arts—the students learned how to safely sand the shells down and assemble their earrings with the shells and beads.
Alaska Seeds of Change, Anchorage, Alaska
Supervisor
Team Time, October 2022
I have hosted several team times surrounding the arts and applied theater. One example of an applied theater team time was in October 2022, when I facilitated an Indigenous Identity workshop for AKSoC apprentices and staff. Throughout this workshop, I had participants become “spect-actors” and we would move our bodies to various identity-based prompts. There were journalling prompts and conversations throughout the workshop and writing poetry was encouraged, but not mandatory for participation.
Alaska Seeds of Change, Anchorage, AK
Supervisor
Stickleback Build Day, July 2022
During Stickleback Build Days, one of the tasks was beautifying the old Alaska Native Medical Center site off 3rd and Ingra. To engage the more artistic Alaska Seeds of Change apprentices, youth staff, and volunteers, I proposed to my manager that we paint the fish totes on the site.
For the two build days in July 2022, I manned the painting station to make sure none of the more enthusiastic painters mixed paint colors directly in the buckets and would occasionally join a solo youth at their fish tote. What we were left with at the end of July was an array of colorful, abstract totes. Unfortunately, we were unable to complete our Stickleback beautification due to the site becoming unsafe earlier this year. Regardless, my partner's niece (who participated in the paintings) still talks about the events to this day.
The Nave, Anchorage, Alaska
Art Instructor Assistant
Art Camp, June 2022
Assisted esteemed artist and curator Melissa Shaginoff during Art Camp 2022 where we engaged over 40 youths from throughout Anchorage. Throughout the week, we de-haired caribou hide, processed berries to create natural paints, and strung beaded necklaces.
Press & Invited Talks
Wolf, Anangookwe. “Artist Talk” Anderson Ranch Art Center, 14 November 2024, Snowmass, CO
Wolf, Anangookwe. “Five Oaks Museum Showcase” Five Oaks Museum, 12 May 2022, Portland, Oregon. Artist Talk.
Dunn, Brian. “New Garment Exhibition – ‘Preserve & Protect’ – to Reveal Our ‘Shrouded Histories.’” Clarksville Now, 1 Nov. 2021
Wolf, Anangookwe. "Multiculturalism & American Art Indigenous Speaker
Presentation." Metro State University, 3 Mar. 2021, Denver, Colorado.
Lecture.
Wolf, Anangookwe. "Guest Critic for Senior I Critiques." Institute of American
Arts, Nov. 2020, Santa Fe, NM. Lecture.
South West Contemporary. Vols. The Feild Guide, no. 2020, July 2020.
Abatemarco, Michael. "Anangookwe Wolf at Form & Concept." Santa Fe New Mexican
[Santa Fe], 3 Apr. 2020. Santa Fe New Mexican
Video conference interview. Conducted by Jordan Eddy, 24 Apr. 2020.
Wolf, Anangookwe. "Spotlight: SITE Scholar, Anangookwe Wolf." Interview by Maddy
Skrak. SITE Santa Fe, 11 Feb. 2019, sitesantafe.org/
spotlight-site-scholar-anangookwe-wolf/.
Wolf, Anangookwe, and Chee Brossy. "2018 Annual IAIA Holiday Art Market."
Interview by MK Mendoza. KSFR, 15 Dec. 2018, www.ksfr.org/post/
2018-annual-iaia-holiday-art-market.