Amber is currently the Director’s Assistant at the OU School of Visual Arts. In her position she provides direct administrative support to the Director and overseas various departmental operations including financial, marketing, website admin for SoVA, course management, events coordination, and working with other departments across campus. She was previously the Manager of Education and Outreach at the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art in Shawnee, OK. She worked with all ages and provided educational art programming through student tours both in person and virtual, art classes and workshops, and providing outreach programs, and worked with highly educated museum docents. Amber has an AA from Seminole State College and received her BFA from Oklahoma State University with a minor in Business Entrepreneurship. She is also a painter and draftswoman that depicts contemporary Native American narratives based on her family heritage of Diné/Navajo (Enrolled), Sac & Fox (Affiliated), and Prairie Band Potawatomi (Affiliated). From her Diné side, she is born into her maternal clan Kinłichii'nii and from her maternal grandfather Tó’ahaní. From her Sauk side, she is born into the Mahwêwithowa, Wolf Clan, and her Sauk name is Mokehmêhshe.
Her mixed media pieces and oil paintings reference an illustrative quality. She has exhibited in over thirty-five exhibitions since graduating from OSU in 2016, and curated 3 exhibitions, including the Tkenagen Mnowabmenagwet: The Beauty of Indigenous Cradleboards in 2022, with cradleboards from the Museum of The Red River, and two from her own family. Amber was commissioned by the First Americans Museum, in 2020, to create and design an original oil painting that was converted into a large mural that is on display for the public in the FAM gallery. She was commissioned by the Sierra Club Magazine to create the Fall 2023 cover and two digital illustrative works for an article over the Land Back Movement that was sent out nationally. In September of 2023, Amber was awarded The Rising Star Alumni Award at the Oklahoma State University, College of Arts & Science Hall of Fame ceremony. The Rising Star award is given to previous graduates who have excelled in their careers within 10 years of graduating from OSU.
