Nizhonniya Austin is a hardcore daydreamer. As much of a poet as she is a painter, the Diné and Tlingit artist convenes with the unseen—her ancestors, her own spirit—to produce artworks ...

“Basically, I’m just walking around in the dark ... Still, it took years more for Austin to recognize art as “something that I could do as a career.” Her oblique path to art, not ...