Abby Sunde is an interdisciplinary artist who predominately works in glassworking, drawing, sound art, and installations. She was raised on Anishinaabe ceded territory of Northcentral Wisconsin and is currently living in Rhode Island. She is a first-generation descendant of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and is also of Scandinavian/European-American descent. Sunde's practice explores the ways in which we might reconnect to the ancestral, embodied knowledge of nature that our minds may have forgotten. Informed by decolonial theory, indigenous epistemologies of relationality and belonging, and land-based pedagogies, she is interested in the cycles of the earth and how those cycles act as tethering points to our histories and the natural phenomena around us.

Sunde earned her BA in Biology and Environmental Sciences from the University of Minnesota - Morris in 2013. Recently returning to school, she received here AFA in Studio Art at Normandale Community College in 2022, her BFA in Studio Art from University of Wisconsin Madison in 2024 and recently received her Masters in Fine Arts in Glass at the Rhode Island School of Design as a Society of Presidential Fellow and LoveFrom Scholar.

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