Solo Exhibitions
2026
Weaving BulrushElizabeth River Project, Ryan Resilience Lab, Norfolk, Virginia
2024
Modernizing Traditions Brightpoint Community College, Midlothian, Virginia
Group Exhibitions
Indigenous Summer, Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts, Suffolk, Virginia (co-curator)
2025
Indigital: Native Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Cabell Screen, Richmond, Virginia
Indigenous Summer, Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts, Suffolk, Virginia (co-curator)
ManNiito II’NiNiiWak: Creative Power People, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, Virginia
54th Annual Trail of Tears Art Show, Cherokee Springs Plaza, Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Transcending Traditions, Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts, Suffolk,Virginia
2024
9|9 Native South Art Show, Museum of the Southeast American Indian, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, North Carolina
2022
Reign and Rebellion, Jamestown Settlement, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia
2021
Roots, Reeds, and Vines: The Art of Basketry, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
2020
49th Annual Trail of Tears Art Show, Cherokee Springs Plaza, Tahlequah, Oklahoma
COLLECTIONS
Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke,North Carolina
Public
Warrior Quiver, 2025, Museum of the Southeast American Indian,University of North
Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke,North Carolina
Nansemond Story, 2023, Jamestown Settlement, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia
Heart Purse, 2020, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
Snake Double Wall Basket, 2020, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
AWARDS
2025
1st Place, Basketry, 54th Annual Trail of Tears Art Show, Tahlequah, Oklahoma
2024
1st Place, Basketry, 9|9 Native South Art Show, Pembroke, North Carolina
2021
1st Place, Basketry, Southeastern Art Show and Market, Tishomingo, Oklahoma
2020
3rd Place, Basketry, 51st Annual Trail of Tears Art Show, Tahlequah, Oklahoma
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
2023
“Nansemond Indian Nation: Looking for Ancestors in the Great Dismal Swamp.” Tribal Truths podcast, May 25, 2023.
Highlighted at Local Exhibitions.” WTKR News 3, 2022.
2022
“We Have to Educate People: Native American Art and Stories
Highlighted at Local Exhibitions.” WTKR News 3, 2022.
American Craft Initiative, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, 2021.
2021
African American Craft Initiative Monthly Maker Bulletin. African
American Craft Initiative, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, 2021.
2020
2020 This Year Is Best Year: 2020. New Art. Independently Published, 2020. (Includes two baskets by Desmond Ellsworth.)
ART FAIRS & MARKETS
2026
Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair and Market, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
GRANTS
2025
Yéego Action Grant, First Peoples Fund
CULTURAL DEMONSTRATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
2026
Basketry Presenter, Our Roots, Our World, Chimborazo Elementary School, Richmond, Virginia
2025
Basketry Demonstration, 250th Battle of Great Bridge Reenactment, City of Chesapeake, Chesapeake, Virginia +Basketry Demonstration, Hampton Mosaic Festival, Hampton History Museum, Hampton, Virginia
Basketry Demonstration, Jamestown Settlement, Williamsburg, Virginia
2024
Basket Presenter, Art Community Engagement Event, Ashland Elementary School, Manassas, Virginia
Basketry Demonstration, Jamestown Settlement, Williamsburg, Virginia
2021
Culture Presenter, Native American History Month Program, Rappahannock Community College, Warsaw, Virginia