Four Sisters Farmers Market Season Artist-in-Residence
All My Relations Arts and the Four Sisters Farmers Market welcome artist Natchez Beaulieu as our market Artist-in-Residence for the 2024 Four Sisters Farmers Market season!
The purpose and intent of the Four Sisters Farmers Market Artist is to promote and strengthen Native plant knowledge, food access and food sovereignty. The Market Artist will have a presence at the 2024 Four Sisters Farmers Market, as well as plan and create visual art pieces and art engagement activities that relate and promote the Four Sisters Farmers market, mission and vision.
Natchez will be working to design visual imagery and create community art activities all season-long which relate and promote the Four Sisters Farmers Market mission and vision — strengthening Native plant knowledge, food access and sovereignty, and knowledge sharing of healthy food, plant knowledge, recipes, and preservation. Join Natchez during farmers market hours (11am-3pm) every third Thursday of the market season months.
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. This project deeply reflected the exhibit’s themes and brought her closer to my goal of establishing a youth mentorship art program in her community. She is honored to be able to create art that represents her culture and her community.