PRESS
Exhibitions, Festivals, Press Releases & Publications
PUBLICATION
September 10, 2024
Photography
"Streamlining energy regulations on Native American reservations could help alleviate poverty" by Silke Schmidt featuring Dominic Parker and Sarah
EXHIBITION
November 10, 2023
Still Here, Still Native Exhibition
The Arts Center
Opening Reception:
Nov. 10th 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
301 Hay St, Fayetteville, NC 28301
EXHIBITION
April 7th - May 30th 2023
Near and Far: The World in Focus
Group Exhibition
Gallery 625
625 Court St.
Woodland, CA 95776
PRESS
February 3, 2022
"KALICO Art Center announces its first exhibition of 2022, “Imagining Ourselves: Celebrating Indigenous Culture, Color, and Vibrancy” by artist Haley Rains."
Daily Inter Lake
PRESS RELEASE
October 1, 2021
"Participants selected for Inaugural Unscripted Workshop sponsored by Comcast NBCUniversal, A+E, Yahoo!, CNN, Turner Sports, and the Cherokee Nation Film Office."
Native American Media Alliance
EXHIBITION
June - September 2021
The Arts & Humanities 2021 Graduate Exhibition
"A Good Day to Garden"
Photography Series
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Museum of Art
EXHIBITION
May 28 - Jun 14, 2020
The Arts & Humanities 2020 Graduate Exhibition
Photography
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
PUBLICATION & PRESS
May 26, 2020
"UC Davis grad exhibition moves online to showcase student projects during coronavirus"
Photography & Interview
The Sacramento Bee
by Mitchel Bobo
PUBLICATION
April 18, 2019
“Sneak Peak: The Creative Director’s Favorite Spreads from Issue 08”
Photography
The New Territory Magazine
by Julia Shiota
PRESS
June 28, 2024
The RIE Report | June 2024
"The Hoover Project on Renewing Indigenous Economies (RIE) continues to work toward finding new ways to support economic regrowth in Indigenous communities consistent with respecting their cultures. This Q1 2024 RIE Report updates the progress of the RIE project and shares resources that tribal leaders, scholars, and policymakers can use to rebuild prosperity among Indigenous people."
AUCTION
October 21, 2023
The New Territory Magazine
Pageturner Fundraiser & Art Auction
October 21, 2023, 4-8 p.m.
The Hayloft at Lifted Spirits Distillery
1734 Cherry St., East Crossroads
Kansas City, MO 64108
EXHIBITION
March 3, 2023
"Hope is Ceremony: What a Tribal College Community Can Teach Us about Hope in the Face of Ecological & Cultural Crises”
Exhibited at the Graduate Conference in Religion and Ecology
Yale Divinity School
EXHIBITION
February 5 - April 30, 2022
Imagining Ourselves: Celebrating Indigenous Culture, Color & Vibrancy
(Solo Photography Exhibition)
KALICO Art Center
149 S Main St.
Kalispell, MT 59901
PUBLICATION
September 28, 2021
"I Am Who I Say I Am: Reclaiming Native American Identity through Visual Sovereignty."
Writing and Photography by Haley Rains (Muscogee Creek)
Imagining America
PUBLICATION
April 09, 2021
Graduate Teaching Community Reflections: Winter 2021
"Members of the Graduate Teaching Community reflected on the following prompt at the conclusion of the Winter 2021 quarter: How did reading and discussing Kevin Gannon’s Radical Hope shape your thinking about teaching?"
UC Davis Center for Educational Effectiveness
FILM FESTIVAL
May 27, 2020
2020 UC Davis Film Festival
Short film, “The Sureño”
PUBLICATION
Jun 18, 2020
"Ceremony is Protest, Protest is Ceremony"
Photography by Haley Rains
The New Territory Magazine
by Sara Casagrand
PUBLICATION
December 15, 2023
Race, Representation, and Satire, edited by Christopher Campbell, is now available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Walmart, and other book retailers. I hope you enjoy my chapter, "Reservation Dogs, Visual Sovereignty, Performative Indigeneity, and the Cultural Imperative of Native American-Produced Media."
Order using the link below.
PUBLICATION
2023
Photography
The New Territory Magazine
Issue 14
"Recovery"
PRESS RELEASE
April 1, 2022
"Jennifer Woodcock-Medicine Horse, adjunct instructor in the MSU School of Art, has been awarded a $50,000 National Endowment for the Humanities/Association of Tribal Archives Libraries and Museums SHARP grant to fund a project, 'IndigenEyes: Contemporary Native American Art of the Rocky Mountain West'... Haley Rains (Mvskoke) a doctoral student at the University of California-Davis, will be the project’s videographer."
MSU News Service
PRESS RELEASE
October 1, 2021
"The NATIVE AMERICAN UNSCRIPTED WORKSHOP has selected 8 participants for its inaugural year. Each selected participant will pitch to a panel of creative executives and independent producers to spotlight their respective projects and unique voices."
LA Skins Fest
PUBLICATION
August 23, 2021
"Of Community and Culture: A Snapshot of Tribal College Alumni"
Tribal College Journal
Volume 33, No. 1 - Fall 2021
PRESS
2020
"In 2019-20, the UC Davis College of Letters and Science is proud to celebrate 50 years of excellence in ethnic studies teaching, research, and leadership. We commemorate this important anniversary with stories about the programs and the people."
Photography
UC Davis College of Letters and Science
PUBLICATION & PRESS
May 18, 2020
"The Show Goes On"
“I have reimagined Curtis’ photography by exploring some of the ways he may have photographed contemporary indigenous people if he were still alive today,” Rains said. “I’m especially interested in depicting the diverse, dynamic and compelling lives of modern American Indian people.”
UC Davis College of Letters and Sciences
by Jeffrey Day
PUBLICATION
2019
Photography
The New Territory Magazine
Issue 08
"Endurance"
PUBLICATION
2018
Photography
The New Territory Magazine
Issue 07
"Sanctuaries"