2024 Sovereignty Residency

Her recent work focuses on three interrelated themes: (1) geographies, space, and place; (2) contemporary state and societal violences; (3) legacies and vestiges of history and historical trauma. Whether created through studio practice or through community-engaged process, the common thread that runs through all her work is to look at old narratives anew, to confront, reflect upon, shape, and transform.
She has been an artist-in-residence at the Santa Fe Arts Institute (Revolution Residency, 2022; Truth and Reconciliation Residency, 2019), and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Trainings for the Not Yet, 2019), and was a Mellon Projecting All Voices Fellow at Arizona State University (2020).
Ms. Burden holds bachelor’s degrees in Journalism and Studio Art, and a master’s degree in Geographic Information Science.

As a creative producer, collaboration designer, and group facilitator, Nicole works with human rights champions to create experiences, products, and services that spark conversation and inspire action.

Her work interrogates power imbalances such as mass incarceration, police brutality, and the desecration of women’s and trans rights. Ann’s data-driven art uses concept-specific materials to reflect facts in these apocryphal times. After receiving her BFA from the University of Wisconsin she has shown at the Obama White House, and her mural See Her received an Americans for the Arts 2018 Public Art Network (PAN) Year in Review Award. Ann’s art has been acquired by the New York Historical Society Museum and the US Library of Congress. Her work has been reviewed in Hyperallergic, Artnet, Interview Magazine, The LA Times, and The Guardian. She has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the US and abroad including shows at Petzel Gallery in New York, Seyhoun Gallery in Tehran, Iran, and Truth to Power during the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. She lives and works in Detroit, MI.

C.Maxx served as the Academic Dean of the Center for Arts and Cultural Studies at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Stevens’s work proudly draws upon her rich Seminole cultural heritage and comes from a family that encouraged her to transform her memories, stories, and life experiences in a creative way. Her work in installation draws upon using materials that are time based, ephemeral like life it has its own timeline.

Stevens received her Masters of Fine Arts in 1987 from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1979 from Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas and in 1972 an Associate of Arts Degree from Haskell Indian Junior College, Lawrence, Kansas.
Stevens’ has been a recipient of many awards and honors such as Eiteljorge Fellowship Award from the Eiteljorge Museum in Indianapolis, Indiana, 2000 Artist Grant from the Andrea Frank Foundation in New York, New York, 1998 Sculptor Award from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Inc. in New York, New York and 2013 Art Matters grant from the Art Matters Foundation in New York, New York.

She has exhibited both in the United States and abroad such as Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec, Canada; Smithsonian American Indian Museum Heye Center in New York City, New York; C. N. Gorman Museum, University of California at Davis, Davis, California; Eiteljorge Museum of Indian Art, Indianapolis, Indiana; Museum of Arts and Crafts, New York, New York; Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; The Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Missoula, Montana; Boise Art Museum, Boise, Montana; and White Mountain Academy Gallery, Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada to name a few.

C.Maxx Stevens constantly works to remain true to her sense of self using memories and issues from her personal experience. Her starting point in her creative process is to creates stories particularly from her dreams and life within the Native American culture.