Juleana Enright

Juleana Enright is an Indigenous, queer, non-binary, freelance writer, independent curator, theatre artist and DJ. They are an enrolled member of the Lower Brule Lakota Tribe. Juleana is the Gallery and Programs Manager at All My Relations Arts. Their past roles have included Culture Editor for l’étoile magazine and Communications Specialist for Gamut Gallery. They have contributed to local platforms, Pride Magazine, mplsart, Primer and City Pages, as well as the national magazine, Hand Paper Making. Juleana has curated six art exhibitions, including Soft Boundaries, Anomalies, biskaabiiyang (returning to ourselves), and the Green Roof Poetry series at the Walker Art Center. In 2020, they were a participating artist in Controlled Burn at the Phoenix Theatre, where they exhibited, “To Wash the Native Out of Us” – an audio/visual installation on the history of Indian boarding schools through the lens of intimate family experiences. Juleana is a recipient of the Emerging Curators Institute 2020-21 Fellowship program and a former writer’s fellow with MnArtists. They are currently a fellow of Sixty Inches from Center and an Artist-in-Leadership fellow at the Franconia Sculpture park. Through their practice, Juleana strives to examine the act of daily creation in the midst of great chaos and explore what it means to be a contemporary 2spirit artist with focus on Indigenous Futurism in art and performance.