Deborah is a 2023-2025 Distinguished Scholar and Artist in Residency at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston, Massachusetts. As part of her residency, she created a mural commemorating People of Color’s roles in the battle of Bunker Hill in the Revolutionary War.  

Her painting “Granny Squant at Stawberry Moon Thanksgiving” is on exhibition throughout 2025 at The Mashantucket Pequot Museum Gallery in a show called “13 Moons Exhibit.” Spears Moorehead won second place in their art award for her painting Granny Squant at Strawberry Moon.

Deborah is presently illustrating a book cover for academia.

She and her children are featured in 400 Stories Project Glouster -Our People Our Stories 1623-2023 by Terry Weber.

 In “2021-22,” Spears-Moorehead was an “Artist in Residency " at Brown University, where she created a four-panel mural addressing colonial and contemporary issues of racism.  Also in 2021, Deborah completed two community murals for nonprofits: one in Wakefield, Rhode Island, on an outdoor wall for The Collective Museum, and another for The Nolumbeka Project of Turner Falls, Massachusetts. The Nolunbeka Project commission was to create a mural called '‘Fifty Mishoonash.”  A printed image of the painted mural traveled to forty-nine educational institutions, and Deerfield Memorial Museum recently purchased the original oil painting for its permanent collection.

In 2023 Deborah created two embellished original murals for the Quinnipiac Valley Museum in Guilford Ct.  The murals are called Mystic Wolf and Quinnipiac Village. They will be on permanent display at the Quinnipiac Valley Museum entrance in Guilford Ct.  In 2024 Deborah was a finalist in the Bristol Port Marker sculpture competition  

 In 2019, she was awarded a Master/Apprentice Grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.   In “2020” Deborah was honored with a “Princess Redwing Arts Award “by The Tomaquaug Museum.  Also in 2020, she collaborated with Artist Alison Newsome on a sculptural piece for the Art, Culture and Tourism Department of the City of Providence’s PVD fest called “The Three Sisters”. It was exhibited at the Empire Plaza in Providence, and in 2021, New England HistoricSociety procured three Sisters Sculpture and now it is part of Casey Farms' permanent collection in Narraganset, R.I. In 2019, Deborah painted two murals in Providence, Rhode Island. The first is a 16 foot “Land Acknowledgement Mural” on Cypress Street. The second one is the “The Providence River Mural” funded by a Sites and Stories Grant from the Providence Preservation Society. The Providence River Mural was displayed at Providence City Hall in January 2021. In 2019 her rendered drawing named “Whoosh” won “The National Congress of American Indian Art Award”and was the artwork selected for Cultural Survival’s fiftieth anniversary tee shirt. In 2015 the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts honored Deborah with a “Community Leadership Award “for her pioneering work in creating the “First Ever” State Native American Art Exhibit. In 2013 her “Good Energy“painting was displayed in Congressman David Ciciline’s office. In 2012, the University of Rhode Island honored her as a “Woman of Distinction.” In 2005,and she won the “Youth Mural Award “ from the National Museum of the American Indian Smithsonian Institute. In 1992, she co- founded Nettukkusqk Singers.

To contact Deborah, call this number 401-301-3691 . She can also be reached at dspearsmoorehead@gmail.com or paintedarrow2@yahoo.com

If you purchase any of Deborah Spears Moorehead’s art, you will receive a signed certificate of authenticity from her along with your purchase. 

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