DanielleSeeWalker

  • Artist, Writer & Co-Founder of The Red Road Project
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Danielle SeeWalker is a Húŋkpapȟa Lakȟóta citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation in North Dakota. She is a mother, artist, writer, curator, activist, and businesswoman and is currently based in Denver, Colorado. Danielle serves as a member of the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Relatives Task Force of Colorado and helped to pass Senate Bill 22-150 which established an Office for MMIR in the State of Colorado. She has also been a Commissioner for the Denver American Indian Commission since 2018 and has served as Co-Chair for two years.

As a multidisciplinary fine artist and muralist, Danielle works across disciplines to explore the intersections of Native American stereotypes, microaggressions, and colonialist systems, both historically and in contemporary society. Drawing on au courant color palettes, expressionistic art strategies, and her Lakota traditions, SeeWalker spins her work into a contemporary vision to challenge what Native American art “should” be or what people expect Native American art to look like.


Danielle can be found working on murals in public spaces as well as working on fine artwork in her studio. Her artwork is centric to highlighting the Native American narratives, specifically themes that have occurred in her life and or stories she has been told by her elders.


Alongside her work as a visual artist, Danielle is a freelance writer and recently published her first book, titled “Still Here: A Past to Present Insight of Native American People & Culture.” In 2013, Danielle embarked on a personal, passion project with her long-time friend called The Red Road Project. The focus of the work is to document, through words, photographs, and video, what it means to be Native American in the 21st century by capturing inspiring and positive stories of people and communities within Indian Country. She recently evolved that project into a non-profit organization with a division to provide cultural arts opportunities to Native American people residing in urban areas.

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