Rory Erler Wakemup

Contact Information:

Cell: 507-430-3768

Email: wakemup.productions@gmail.com

Mailing Address: 781 Manomen Ave St. Paul MN 55107

Current Employment /contract work/grants

Humanties, Cultural Identity Legacy Grant

Minnesota Native Artists Alliance

Indian Education, Contemporary Native Arts infusion in to Public Education

Belwin Conservancy, Community Engagement

We Are Still Here Steering committee, Pop culture Media

St. Paul Public Art Unchi Maka Park, public art sculpture

Mpls Public Art Sculpture, 3 sisters

Education

2014-2015 M.F.A Glass/Sculpture, University of Wisconsin Madison 2012-2014 M.A. Glass/Sculpture, University of Wisconsin Madison

Pilchuck School of Glass WA, Hybrid Print Frontiers

2003-2010 B.F.A Sculpture, Digital Photography, Jewelry, Native Studies, Printmaking, Visual Communication, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe NM.

Bostic and Sullivan Photography Aprentacship, Santa Fe, NM

2006, 2007 ABC Summer Film Program, Santa Fe NM

2002 Great Lakes School of Log building, Tower MN

1999-2002 Traditional Crafts, Birchbark and Quill working, White Earth MN

1997-1999 A.A. Photography, Jewelry, Native Studies, Institute of American Indian Arts

Awards and Grants

2022 Humanities Cultural Legacy Grant

2021 NDN Collective Community Action Grant, Land Back Streetscape

Black Visions Collective Grant, community action

2020 Arts Access Grant (State Arts Board)

McKnight Artist Fellow (Communty Engaged Artist)

Humanities Legacy Grant

City Of Minneapolis, Luminous Ceilings- Public Art Installation

NDN Collective Communty Action Grant, MAIC security during George Floyd uprising

2019 City of Minneapolis, Creative City Making, Green zones- Arts and community

Walker Art Center, Indigenous Advisory Panel, Public Sculpture

2018 Art Matters Grant

LUSH Fund Grant

2017 MAP Fund Grant

2016 Jerome Emerging Artists Grant

Metropolitan Regional Arts Council “Arts Learning”

2016 Forecast Public Art Grant “Emerging Artist Project Grant”

Metropolitan Regional Arts Council Grant “Next Step”

Spring Board Grant “Open Streets”

Hennepin Theater Trust “Artist in Residence”

2015 Chazen Museum, Chazen Prize

Art Institute, “Outstanding Student Achievement Award”

UW Madison, “Chancellor Fellow” Solo Exhibitions

2022 Clearly Indigenous, Native Glass Artists Traveling show

2021 Clearly Indigenous, Native Glass Artists exhibition and book

2019 Two Rivers Gallery, “Divest or Die”

2018 Rochester Arts Museum, Kill the Idiot Save the Fan”

2015 Chazen Museum, “Kill the Idiot Save the Fan”

2014 Gallery 7, “Conflustarmony, the confluence of flustered attempts to mix fine art and ceremony.” Installation work

2018 Augsburg University, “Sacred Fire”

2016 Hennepin Theater Trust, “Made Here” Reflections

2010 Playing withg the Wind

Online documentation of work

2016 “Kill the idiot save the fan” Indignous Peoples Day performance at the MAIC

In this effort I use what I dubbed “Funktavism”, fun activism, to use subversive tactics to educate native youth and families about the traumatic history as it relates to colonized experiences. We shared our experiences and genetic memory to create a performance that showed non-natives how we feel about being portrayed as sprots mascots.

https://vimeo.com/203373542

2016 “Water Serpent” Performance at Standing Rock

Cannupa Luger, my college roommate and good friend put a call out for folks to make mirror shields and bring them to Standing Rock. So I fundraised 3000$ and rallied about 30 artists in Mpls to help make 500 mirror shields for a march of water protectors to emulate flowing water to record with my drone.

https://firstamericanartmagazine.com/2016-top-ten/

2017 “

2018 “MMIW march” I did these workshops from 2017-to present and have printed a total of 10,000 shirts and bandannas for various MMIW marches and demonstrations.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2018/march-raises-alarm-for-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women/

2018 “Bring Her home” As AMRA director I produces this to help raise awareness for the efforts of our womens groups as it relates to the systemic issues that cause MMIW

http://www.allmyrelationsarts.com/bring-her-home/

2018 “Divest or Die” Performance in front of US Bank Stadium

This was another “Smart Wars” performance to help raise awareness for resisting the line 3 construction.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2018/divest-or-die-smart-wars-artists-depict-battle-to-protect-earth/

2021 National MMIW day install

https://www.kare11.com/article/news/crime/red-dresses-offer-poignant-reminder-of-violence-against-native-american-women/89-2fb96e75-d374-4dab-a9bb-a1e39cfb2152

2022 “3 Sisters” food sovereignty, slated to be completed 2023-2024due to COVID Delays

Previous Employent

All My Relations Arts, Director

1414 E. Franklin Mpls, MN 55404

Professional student