JAIDA GREY EAGLE

Jaida Grey Eagle (she/her) is an Oglala Lakota artist, currently located in St. Paul, MN. A photojournalist, producer, beadwork artist, and writer, she is a member of the Women’s Photograph, Indigenous Photograph, and 400 Years Project. Grey Eagle is a Report for America Fellow with the Sahan Journal covering communities of color in the Twin Cities. She is also co-curator of an upcoming exhibition focused on Indigenous photography debuting Fall 2023 at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

As a beadwork artist, Grey Eagle is inspired by her family's usage of color, passed down from a great grandmother’s star-quilt color-philosophy of using six colors or more in every piece. Jaida creates abstractions of her great grandmother's star quilts as fringed earrings with a blending of colors that are significant to her family's legacy as Lakota artists.

Grey Eagle is a co-producer of the Sisters Rising Documentary, which is the story of six Native American women reclaiming personal and tribal sovereignty in the face of ongoing sexual violence against Indigenous women in the United States. The documentary has recently received an Honorable Mention at the Big Sky Doc Festival. She is passionate about bringing awareness to indigenous issues, especially those which impact indigenous women.

She holds her Bachelor of Fine Arts, with an emphasis in Fine Art Photography, from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.