Nicole Oxendine
Nicole Oxendine is an Indigenous feminist interdisciplinary artist, activist & cultural producer. Soulful creative engagement & expression as acts of restoration, empowerment, pleasure & survivance are at the heart of her practice. Gratefully guided by the love, whispers & stories of her Lumbee, Cuban, and Celtic ancestors, she explores healing, lineage, transformation, and Indigenous/Black/Queer/Femme wisdoms through textile assemblage, painting, poetry & experiential environments. She especially enjoys deconstructing established fabrics & frameworks & midwifing new possibilities.
Nicole is also the founder of RiverShe Collective Arts, a creative spark, collaborative community, and independent press. Inspired by the foremothers of Combahee River Collective, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, and Spiderwoman Theater, RiverShe nurtures new works by BIPOC + LGBTQ + under-represented voices by producing & publishing creative projects that contribute to transformational change.
She has studied at New York University, Hunter College, Corcoran School of Art + Design, and received an MFA/Interdisciplinary Arts with a concentration in Indigenous & Decolonial Arts from Goddard College. Nicole is a proudly enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.