Sip & Talk with Frank Buffalo Hyde and Heid E. Erdrich

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Heid E. Erdrich curates art exhibits, teaches, researches, and collaborates with other artists. In 2024 she was the inaugural Minneapolis Poet Laureate and in 2025 she served as the James Welch Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Montana Missoula. Erdrich is Ojibwe and an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. Her most recent books are Boundless: Abundance in Native American Art and Literature (co-edited, Amherst Press, 2025) Verb Animate -Poems, Prose, and Prompts from Collaborative Acts (Trio House Press, 2024) and National Poetry Series winner Little Big Bully (Penguin 2020). Erdrich’s on-going project is Poetry Service Announcement (PoeS.A.) which promotes poetry as public art. She serves her communities through formal and informal mentorship, poetry interventions, and in activating collaborative response between communities.

Frank Buffalo Hyde, a distinguished artist of Onondaga Beaver Clan and Nimiipuu heritage, spent his formative years in New York, on his mother's Onondaga reservation. His artistic journey commenced at the age of 18, initially as a passionate hobby. However, it was his enrollment at the Institute of American Indian Arts that marked a significant turning point, propelling him to dedicate himself more seriously to his burgeoning art career. His work has been shown at museums including the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, NM; the C.M Russell Museum, Great Falls, MT; and Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK. It is in the public collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Washington DC; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Iroquois Museum, Cobleskill, NY; Longyear Museum at Colgate University, Hamilton, NY; the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM; the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian and The Hirshhorn Museum. Hyde lives and works in Northfield, MN. And recently he received artist residencies at; RSD Artist in Residence program in Minneapolis and Crows Shadow Institute of the Arts in Pendleton Oregon. And a mural commissioned by the Northfield YMCA.