Kassie Kodet, Wakaƞ Nažiƞ Wiƞ, is a multidisciplinary indigenous artist from southwestern Minnesota. She recently graduated from Minneapolis College of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drawing and painting with minors in art history and printmaking. She works as a freelance painter, printmaker, sign painter, and zine artist. As a result, she is able to prioritize her time with her closest friends and family, which heavily influences her artistic practice. Her paintings are created as a response to the use of appropriation within album artworks and the appropriation of music, such as sampling, which is shown through her own use of layering.
Her work revolves around ideas of control, mediation, and the push and pull of what is seen while also using the materials to experiment with the concept of decay. Her subject matter often pertains to the grotesque and creating something beautiful out of it. She is also heavily inspired by her love of music and references to her favorite artists can be found throughout her work. As a painter and printmaker, she works with the idea of multiplicity, and when working in series, finds that it allows her the ability to be less precious about the images she creates. Within her practice, permanence and change are two contradicting, but coinciding themes that appear a lot. The processes she utilizes to create her work, such as reduction printmaking and image transfers, are inherently permanent in nature. These things are finite and every decision is forever altering the piece. 