Peggy Fontenot has been exhibiting her Fine Art Photography nationally since 1991. Shooting exclusively with B & W film, she processes her work in her wet darkroom using a Split-Filter technique. She has received numerous awards, which include: The Autry Museum (Los Angeles, CA) The Heard Museum (Phoenix, AZ) The Eiteljorg Museum (Indianapolis, IN) SWAIA (Santa FE, NM) Red Earth (Oklahoma City, OK) Cahokia Mounds (Collinsville, IL) Millard Sheets Gallery (Pomona, CA) The Annual Black & White Spider Awards The International Photography Awards Photography projects by Fontenot include: Merging Cultures delves into the admixture of Black Indians. The Art of Debriefing, a group exhibit, explores veterans and their personal experiences of reentry into civilian life. The Living Wall©, which honors all living veterans while bringing awareness to who our veterans are and in what conditions they exist today. Secrets Behind The Wall: An American Indian Vietnam Veteran’s Private Battlefield At Home Spontaneous Memorials spotlights gravesites along America’s highways. Surviving Assimilation: The Contemporary Native American & Tipis of the Plains Tribes observes the plight of the American Indian. Warriors: Protectors of the Earth features a collection of artwork by Native American veterans and artists, which Fontenot curated as well as contributed to. White Man’s Trash examines Thunder Mountain Monument and the man who built it. Galleries and Museums that have hosted her work, include: Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, CA AmVets Post 2, Culver City, CA Antelope Valley College, Antelope Valley, CA Atlantis Casino Resort, Reno, NV Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, CA Bel Air Camera, Westwood, CA Boarder Books, Westwood, CA Briscoe Museum, San Antonio, TX Cahokia Mounds Museum, Collinsville, IL Cal Poly University, San Luis Obispo, CA Charles Street Gallery, Beaufort, SC Clickers & Flickers, Los Angeles, CA Coastal Arts League and Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA Disney Imagineering, Los Angeles, CA Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN Expo Arts Center, Long Beach, CA Gallery Expo, Greenly Art Space Signal Hill, CA Haramokngna Native American Cultural Center, Topanga Canyon, CA Institute of American Indian Art Museum’s Lloyd Kiva Gallery, Santa Fe, NM IOA Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK Just Like Home Café, Marina del Rey, CA Lawton Gallery, Green Bay, WI Legal Grind, Santa Monica, CA Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles Mayor’s Office, Los Angeles, CA Macomb City Hall – Land Acknowledgement, Macomb, IL Millard Sheet Gallery, Pomona, CA Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA Museum of History and Art Ontario, Ontario, CA Museum of Indigenous People, Prescott, AZ National Vietnam Veteran’s Art Museum, Chicago, IL Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena, CA Queen Mary, Long Beach, CA Red Earth Museum, Oklahoma City, OK Santa Monica Convention Center, Santa Monica, CA SATWIWA, Thousand Oaks, CA Sharlot Hall Museum, Prescott, AZ Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C. Southwest Museum of the American Indian, Los Angeles, CA Southwest Association of Indian Arts (SWAIA), Santa Fe, NM Publication: Publications: Collateral Damage – Release date April 2009 Permanent Collection Heard Museum Phoenix, AZ Sifting Sands (International Library of Photography) First Place Award, 2000 featuring ‘Earthquake’ Release date April 2001 Dawn’s Reflection (International Library of Photography) featuring ‘Progress’ Release date August 2000 Articles: Pasatiempo Seeing What’s Really There August 2019 Santa Fe, NM Santa Fe New Mexican State of the Arts: Indian Market and Indigenous Fine Art Market September 2015 Santa Fe, NM Seeing What’s Really There Pasatiempo August 2019 Santa Fe, NM Indian Art Market showcases beauty, tradition and sorrow Captured by Native American artists The Salt Lake Tribune October 2016 Salt Lake City, UT When Johnny Comes Limping Home The Tolucan Times March 2005 Los Angeles, CA Art with A Conscience Pasadena Star-News U Weekend Section January 2004 Pasadena, CA Vets Recall What Leaders Forget Random Lengths November 2004 San Pedro, CA Group Strives to Elicit Wartime GI’s Little-Known Stories The Daily Breeze May 2003 Torrance, CA Photography Exhibit A Celebration of Artist’s Recovery from Blindness The Times News - Lifestyle Section May and June 2003 Jim Thorpe, PA Freedom’s Heroes Veterans Enterprise/Homeland Security Winter 2002 Sherman Oaks, CA Library of Congress’s Veterans History Project Honors Veterans Nationwide News from the Library of Congress November 2002 Washington, D.C. Articles continued: Vets May Appear in Steel, Porcelain News-Star June 2002 Shawnee, OK The Jewish Journal November 2000 Los Angeles