MCH is excited to announce that our artist for the 2022 MCH Annual Conference is Moira Villard!

Moira (pronounced “Mee-Ree”) is a dynamic visual artist, proficient in a variety of artistic genres, including portraiture, illustration, graphic and digital design and as a muralist. She is also a community organizer, curator and passionate arts educator concentrating her efforts around issues of equity and justice including: arts access, creative placemaking, environmental sustainability, youth empowerment, and acknowledgement of Indigenous land, culture, and history.

Moira grew up on the Fond du Lac Reservation in Cloquet, MN and identifies as a Fond du Lac direct descendent of both settler and Indigenous heritage – Anishinaabe paternally and Delaware Lenape maternally. She currently works as a freelance consultant, designer, speaker, and grant-writer. She was broadly recognized in 2019, when she received the 2019 Duluth NAACP “Take a Stand for the Revolution” award, 2019 Emerging City Champions fellowship, Forecast Public Art 2019 Early-Career Project Grant, 2019 YWCA Women of Distinction award, and The Duluth News Tribune 20 under 40 award.

Her work has been featured in numerous shows in Duluth and around Minnesota, including her recent solo show, “Rights of the Child” at Zeitgeist, and group shows “Beyond Borders” at MacRostie Arts Center and “We the People” at the Minnesota Museum of American Art.

Click here to check out Moira’s website for more examples of her work!

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