About

River Ian Kerstetter (she/her) is a designer, writer, curator and educator of Onʌyota'a:ka (Oneida) and European-American heritage, who grew up in occupied Pueblo lands (central New Mexico) and now lives and works in occupied Potawatomi lands (Chicago). She is a citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin.

River is a contributor and Communications Lead at Sixty Inches From Center, a collective of writers, editors, artists, curators, librarians, and archivists who publish and produce collaborative projects about artists, archival practice, art history, and culture in Chicago and the Midwest.

River is a co-founder of Fruit Punch Press with Chicago poet and artist H. Melt.

Previously she was a co-founder of TIES poetry readings with Patrick Del Percio, a collaborator with charles ryan long on the print and papermaking project PansyGuild, a founding member of Vecinos Artist Collective, a New Mexico collective that partnered with community to create collaborative, multidisciplinary art from parade floats to poetry workshops, and was named a SITE Scholar by SITE Santa Fe.

River holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Book & Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago, and a BFA in Art & Ecology from the University of New Mexico.