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An Afro-Indigenous Futurism Perspective
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SIBLING
COLLABORATORS
MONICA RICKERT-BOLTER
​Monica Rickert-Bolter is a Chicago-based visual artist of Potawatomi and Black heritage. Her artwork uses traditional mediums, such as charcoal and pastels, graphic design, and digital coloring to create expressive characters and tell diverse stories.
​monicarickertbolter.com
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JOEL RICKERT
Joel is a graphic designer and writer. He found solace in
combining his twin passions of visual arts and the written word
through page layout, logo creation, and typography. While
mostly digital, he maintains his roots in the analog world.
After her undergrad, Monica became involved with Native nonprofits, combining her love of art and education to develop youth programs and resources, including illustrating children’s books. Monica is a co-founder and the Director of Operations at the Center for Native Futures, a Native fine arts gallery that opened in 2023. Her artwork has been featured in exhibitions at The National Museum of the American Indian, The Field Museum, the University of North Carolina Stone Center, The Watershed Art & Ecology, the National Public Housing Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Center for Native Futures. Her upcoming collaborative projects include a public art piece with the Beacon Hill Black Alliance for Human Rights and an Afro-Indigenous Futurist graphic novel with her brother Joel Rickert about Jean Baptiste-Pointe DuSable and Kitihawa.
EXHIBITING EARLY CONCEPT ART
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Excerpt from National Public Housing Museum exhibition and EXPO Chicago 2025.
History and myths combine to inform our futuristic vision.
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