Niya DeGroat

The American Indian Graduate Magazine Spring 2022 • 30th June 2022

Rewriting the Script on Indigenous Representation in Hollywood

Native Max • 18th April 2022

Red Berry Woman takes top prize at Phoenix Fashion Week

The American Indian Graduate Magazine Fall 2021 • 7th January 2022

Our Collective Story: Digitizing the Indigenous Narrative

Cultural Survival Quarterly • 17th September 2021

Decolonizing Fashion, One Runway at a Time

Fashion School Daily • 26th May 2021

Dynamic Duos

In January of this year, the team behind American retailer, Etsy, reached out to San Francisco-based Etsy seller, Dawn Kali, to participate in their seasonal Creator Collabs – an initiative that pairs Etsy creatives with powerhouse names to produce...

ArtsThread • 17th February 2021

Q&A with Arts Thread member Niya DeGroat - Indigenous Contemporary Fashion Magazine

We interview ARTSTHREAD member Niya DeGroat, a 2020 Fashion Journalism MA graduate from the Academy of Art University. We discuss his experience designing a magazine for contemporary Indigenous fashion for his thesis project, the hurdles indigenous...

IndianCountryToday.com • 1st February 2021

Wait a minute, America! ‘This land is stolen land’

Joe Biden's inauguration missed the mark by including tone deaf American folk song.

Fashion School Daily • 3rd November 2020

Designing Abroad: A Collection in Paris from Chelsea Grays

A year ago, 27-year-old designer and MFA graduate Chelsea Grays boarded a plane for Paris as part of a one year, scholarship-funded exchange program with École de la Chambre Syndicale. However, about halfway through her residency, COVID-19 disrupted...

Native Max Magazine - Fashion & Art Issue • 28th September 2020

Beading Connections: Designer Justine Woods Reclaims Her Ancestral Identity through a Métis Aesthetic

Native Max Magazine • 4th September 2020

Embracing the Flux: Navigating the Fashion World as a Navajo Two-Spirit

First-person account of creative personality Niya DeGroat for the 2020 LGBTQ2S Issue of Native Max Magazine (digital version).

Native Max Magazine • 17th July 2020

Orlando Dugi: Threading the past into the future one bead at a time

Fashion writer Niya DeGroat sat down with Orlando Dugi to talk about his queer background, his design aesthetic, and how he has been passing the time during quarantine.

Fashion School Daily • 13th July 2020

Growing With the Flow: The Design Longevity of Ernesto Fernandez

“I grew up with the curiosity to explore and to create,” says designer Ernesto Fernandez. The 47-year-old School of Fashion alumnus has been staying busy designing table accessories for Von Gern Home while quarantined in New York City. “I am a...

Academy Art U News • 1st October 2019

Defining the Next Generation In Fashion

Academy Art U News • 1st October 2019

An Afternoon in NYC with Designer Chelsea Grays

IndianCountryToday.com • 15th February 2019

Despite the emergence of Native Fashion, successful indigenous designers remain trapped in display cases

Growing up on the Navajo reservation, television was my only resource to the outside, American world. From Barney to soap operas to Oprah Winfrey, everything on the TV screen captured my imagination. Eventually, I started to notice something was...