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About the Artist 

Summer Paa'ila-Herrera Jones 

(she/her/hers)

Education 

2022-Current

University of California, Riverside 

2020-2022

Mira Costa Community College 

Publications 

2022

2022

2022

2022

2021

2021

Traditions We Carry, Changing Womxn Collective, Issue 4 

Ribbon Skirt, Changing Womxn Collective, Issue 4 

Ribbon Skirt, Tidepools

Crisis, Tidepools

Traditions We Carry, Tidepools

No‘áa’alvish kút: My Fire story, Tidepools

Awards 

2022

2022

2022

2022

2022

2021

2021

2020

Scholarship, Marius DeBrabant 

Native Artist Scholarship, MiraCosta Foundation

First Place Digital Art, Assimilation, Connections Exhibit

Third Place Ceramics, Reclamation Pot, Connections Exhibit

Scholarship, MiraCosta Art Foundation 

Art Award, Crisis, Tidepools

Fiction Award, No‘áa’alvish kút: My Fire story, Tidepools

First Place, Dorothy a Young Activist, Women's Suffrage Exhibit 

Exhibitions 

2022

2022

2022

2022

2022

2022

2021

2020

BlackList Me, The Chapter House Los Angeles

San Diego Library  

Artist Together, Cannon Art Gallery Carlsbad 

Campus Creatives, California Center for the Arts Escondido 

Connections, Kruglak Gallery 

Places Within, Blue Gate Gallery 

Interpertations, Kruglak Gallery 

Women's Suffrage, Women's Soaring Project 

Workshops

2022

2022

Native Writers Group, Blindspot Collective 

Native Research Symposium, SDSU

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