Hosted by Joe Williams, 5 Plain Questions is a podcast that proposes 5 general questions to Native American and Indigenous artists, creators, musicians, writers, movers and shakers, and culture bearers.
In this episode, meet Holly Doll. Holly Doll lives in Bismarck, North Dakota, and is a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. First and foremost, Holly is an artist. She specializes in Lakota forms of beadwork and quillwork, which her mother started to teach her when she was just two years old. Holly grounds herself with cultural values passed down by her family and applies them to any artistic, cultural, and community work that she does.
“Even though we're holding something that's hundreds or thousands of years old, culture is something that lives and breathes. It's okay to leave your mark on it and to move it forward and be okay with it changing with future generations that also participate in it.”
In addition to being an artist, Holly wears many professional hats. She has over a decade of experience in arts and cultural nonprofits. Currently, she works in collaboration with The Waterers, a collective of radical disruptors of philanthropy, as a Program Director for Ignite Rural with the Department of Public Transformation, and as Program Manager with Arts Midwest.
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Art of the Rural is honored to support 5 Plain Questions. We are grateful to individual donors across the country, the Ford Foundation, and Good Chaos for making these conversations possible. Additional support for this podcast is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
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