Inuk artist, social justice advocate, poet, and public speaker.
Ella Nathanael Alkiewicz (she/her) is a beneficiary of Nunatsiavut Government, a self-taught artist, social justice advocate, poet, and public speaker. At present, Alkiewicz is showing a poem at the Smith College Museum of Art about a sculpture carved by a Canadian Inuk. She finished a Middle Reader illustration and is excited for the forthcoming publication. Her fifth article is recently published in Inuktitut. Alkiewicz has led workshops at Amherst College, Lesley University, Mount Holyoke College, the North American Indian Center of Boston, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has earned grants from Community Foundation of Western Mass. and Mass. Cultural Council with a two-month residency from Easthampton City Arts.
Alkiewicz is finishing her second year as an artist advisor for Assets for Artists and continues to serve on boards for the Northampton Center for the Arts. She’s university trained in early childhood education, journalism, certificate in Native Studies, and nonfiction writing while self-taught in poetry and visual arts. Alkiewicz works in her studio, called Art by E.A., in Northampton and lives with her husband and tabby.
