ozhichige
she creates
Internationally renowned Anishinaabe artist, Adrienne Benjamin, has made her mark by staying true to her roots.
Utilizing the lessons of her life mentors and community elders to create meaningful, current, socially relevant, and culturally significant work that intersects with her Anishinaabe values, history, and lifeways. She is a cultural artist first and foremost, creating jingle dresses and an array of other regalia and garments in an Anishinaabe Style.
When thinking of those who inspire and are so vital to the continuation of her cultural lifeways, they are elders and knowledge keepers, people who deeply care about the survival of her heritage.
Lieutenant Governor, Peggy Flanagan modeling a dress made for Adrienne’s Winter Royalty Collection.
Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Commissioner of Administration wearing a Jingle Dress made by Adrienne
Adrienne’s work has been purchased by the Minnesota Historical Society and private collectors around the world. Her work has also been featured in multiple exhibitions, including:
Niimiwin: Bijiinaag igo ingii-azhegiiwe gaa-niimi’iding at All My Relations Arts
Gashkigwaade (It is Sewn) at Crossing Arts Alliance
Ziibaaska’iganagooday: The Jingle Dress at 100 at the Mille Lacs Indian Museum
Continuing my work as an artist means that I am continuing the work that those elders entrusted me to do and truly believing in myself the way they believed in me.