Awanigiizhik Bruce
Awanigiizhik Bruce (Mikinaak-Wajiw Anishinaabe, Nehiyaw, Michif) is a Two-Spirit diverse-media artist based on the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation. Their artistic practice traverses traditional and ceremonial Nehiyaw-pwat forms, mixed media, and multimedia work. Their primary mediums include ledger art, parfleche, quillwork, beadworking, painting, jewelry-making, robotic art, and children's book illustrations. Awanigiizhik brings practices from ancestral traditional revitalization to the exploration of Indigenous futurism. They spend much of the year completing site-specific and collaborative projects around the country, like murals in St. Paul and Duluth, MN and Belcourt, ND.
2S fashion patterns, 2025
Antique Ledger paper collage on cotton watercolor paper, watercolors, color pencils, acrylic paints, inks
Plains T Dress pattern depicting Two-Spirit historic and contemporary gender-identity terms in Ojibwe, Cree, and Michif.
Niizhoomanidoowag manidokewining, aaniish naa izhi-noojimo’idizowaad? (How do they heal themselves in a Two-Spirit ceremony?), 2025
With Dyana Decoteau-Dyess
Photograph
Mural-size photograph depicting Awanigiizhik creating a ceremony in which the participants are all Awanigiizhik as the one being doctored, the ceremonial niiganii, the oshkawebisag, and various societal helpers.
Niizhoomanidoowag mashkikiikeng (Medicine Shield), 2025
Elk and Deer parfleche, earth pigment paint, leather, vintage wool, various printed fabric and ribbons, taxidermied woodpecker