Ball's art practice includes installation art, performance art, mixed-media textile art, sculpture,[3] painting, and printmaking.[9] Her textiles often combine stitched words with quilts and dolls that draw upon Modoc and Klamath history.[2] Her aunt taught her quilt making when Ball was young, inspiring the adult artist to challenge assumptions about materials, matrilineal craft, and textiles.[10]
Ball's installation at the 2015 One Flaming Arrow Indigenous Art, Music, & Film Festival in Portland, Oregon incorporated a variety of materials. These included coyote heads, Ball's handmade quilts, and original 19th century newspaper clippings about her great-great-grandfather Kientpaush. Oregon Public Broadcasting noted that freshly cut wood in the installation, "Mapping Coyote Black," rendered the gallery "thick and sweet with piney smells."[11]
Of the installation, Ball has said, "Everyone knows that Coyote is a trickster: intelligent and powerful, and at times Coyote plays the fool. I offer Coyote to viewers as a woman, the avatar of myself as an artist."[1]
Ball characterizes motherhood as central to her identity as an artist[1] and writes that her work "examines internal and external discourses that shape Indian identity."[5] Ball cites performance artist Coco Fusco as an inspiration, particularly Fusco's influential performance piece "Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West," created in collaboration with Guillermo Gómez-Peña.[1]
Ball's many awards include the MRG Foundation's Lilla Jewel Fund Award, Santo Foundation Award, and Oregon Arts Commission's Joan Shipley Award (2016). Also in 2016, the Oregon Arts Commission named Ball an Individual Artist Fellow.[2] In 2018, the Seattle Art Museum gave her the Betty Bowen Award.[9] In 2019, Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts awarded her a Golden Spot Residency Award.[9]
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