Ivalu selected for the Rasmuson Foundation 2026 Individual Artist Awards Fellowship

Gingrich will create a new body of work, Taimuŋa, steeped in the influence of the ancestral Indigenous carvers who have preceded her. Her fellowship will also support trips to museums that hold cultural belongings of her ancestors.

New work at the National Gallery of Canada

A part of Qillaniq, the world’s largest Indigenous circumpolar art exhibition on view at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada during Summer 2026. This work will remain on view until 2028.

2025 Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Native Arts Fellowship

Awarded to support Ivalu’s research into the carved cultural belongings of her culture and ancestors in Washington, D.C. in the spring of 2026.