Brave Heart Fellowship
Champions for Change
CA Native Youth Collective
Remembering Our Sisters
Building Communities of Hope
Creative Native
Democracy is Indigenous
Danielle Fixico is a third year Master of Fine Arts (MFA) candidate in painting at the University of Oklahoma where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Native American Studies in 2019. She is also an alumni from the College of the Muscogee Nation, originally from Morris, Oklahoma.
Danielle’s work focuses on raising awareness for women’s issues in Native American communities through the combination of symbols and materials from her southeastern Native American culture. She has been featured in the Tribal College Journal, publications from the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center and for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) Awareness Day, celebrated on May 5. Her work has been exhibited in shows at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Cherokee Heritage Center, In Your Eye Gallery, Chokma’si Gallery, the Five Civilized Tribes Museum and Exhibit C Gallery. She hopes to one day become an art professor at a tribal college to inspire future Indigenous artists to create and share their own artistic voice with the world.
About Danielle’s Project
In support of her final MFA thesis, Danielle spent her Remembering Our Sisters Fellowship raising awareness for MMIWG2S+ through storytelling and artistic creation. She created sharable stickers and an audio recording that played at her final art exhibition.
Beyond the Veil follows the story of Skye Jin as a way of advocating for Indigenous women taken too soon as a result of the MMIWG2S+ epidemic. Danielle’s project tells a powerful and haunting story of how butterflies represent Indigenous women, “carry[ing] future generations of changemakers that are often only seen for their beauty, which could ultimately be their curse”.
