Rose Powhatan

Artworks Powhatan's artwork calls for respect for Indigenous cultures. She researches traditional Eastern Woodlands Indigenous designs for her artwork.

"Pocahontas Unmasked" is a print of a distant maternal cousin. This print is Powhatan's interpretation of an unmasked English version of Pocahontas. It is based on John White's watercolors based on the Amerindian phenotype from 1585.

Exhibitions Solo exhibitions "Age-Old Tribe's Dream Painter," Fondo Del Sol, Washington D.C, December 19, 1990 – January 26, 1991. "Culture Caucus Summer Festival: Rose Powhatan," The Reach at The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., September 2–3, 2022. "Wingapo! Welcome to the Native American Dance Circle," The Kennedy Center, Washington D.C., July 8-July 10, 2021.

Group exhibitions "Totems to Powhatan," Vienna, Virginia, metro station, 1988. "'SUBMULOC': REVERSING THE TIDE," Fondo Del Sol, Washington, D.C., June 26, 1992 – July 11, 1992. "The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans," National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 4, 2023 – January 15, 2024. Visual Power: 21st Century Native American Artists/Intellectuals, 2005, traveling exhibition, curated by Phoebe Farris

Film Powhatan appeared as an extra in the 2005 historical film The New World.

She also appeared in the 2008 HBO series “John Adams”. Powhatan acted in the role of Nancy Attucks, the Nattick Indian mother of Crispus Attucks, who was a hero of the American Revolutionary War.

Visitors to the Jamestown Settlement Park in Virginia can see Powhatan acting in the role of a 17th century Pamunkey elder in the film “1607: A Nation Takes Root”.

Rose Powhatan is also featured as a storyteller of Virginia Indian and other Indigenous American cultural origins on YouTube.

Publications Books The Things I Prefer to Be Forgotten (by Alexei Auld, illustrated by Powhatan) (2014) Tonto Canto Pocahontas (by Alexei Auld, illustrated by Powhatan) (2013) “The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing After Removal”(edited by Geary Hobson, Janet McAdams, and Kathryn Walkiewicz). (2010) Rose Powhatan contributed her memoir titled “Surviving Document Genocide” as the entree to the publication.

Articles My American Liberty Story: Rose A. Powhatan Opinion | D.C. Once Had an Indigenous Queen, Cockacoeske, the Queen of Pamunkey. Remember Her Story.