Wyoming Arts Council

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Oakley Boycott( she.her.they.them) is a multi-disciplinary artist.
Born and raised in the foothills of the Wind River Mountains in Lander, Wyoming adjacent to the Wind River Reservation on traditional E. Shoshone, Crow, and Cheyenne land, the majority of their childhood was spent touring with her parents, the Western music duo "The Grizzlies" to communities across the country.

Based out of New York City since 2007, they can be found regularly on stage and screen and with consistent appearances and accolades at such venues as Metropolitan Opera,Town Hall Theatre, Feinsteins 54 Below,Theatre Row among many others.

“Oakley Boycott is the kind of outlandish talent that Broadway used to harvest and write shows around; the sort of performer that has no better use for anyone but to be musical comedy star.”
-Michael Dale ; Broadway World

As an endurance artist, Oakley has performed endurance art piece:

SILENCE
based on Marina Abramovics
"The Artist Is Present" in both New York City and Wyoming. SILENCE takes place over the course of three, 8-hour days, sitting in complete silence with no breaks. All proceeds go directly to "Not Our Native Daughters"; an organization on the Wind River Reservation highlighting the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Children epidemic.

ECHO
As a recipient of the Wyoming Arts Council ARPA Grant in 2022, they mounted the endurance art piece ECHO, along the Popo Agie River in Sinks Canyon, Wyoming for three days, eight hours a day with no breaks sitting in two plexiglass chambers; one darkened and one transparent, divided by a two way mirror. ECHO is a community collaborative, mental health focused endurance art piece where attendees were encouraged to document their relationship/experience with mental health on the walls of the ECHO chambers with no filter.

Oakley has extensive ongoing collaborations across with artists of varying mediums across the country.

Past highlight collaborations include: REFLECTION: the Art of Being: mental health through the community lens of artistic expression at the Lander Art Center(curator), Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame: Documentary on the last of the Wyoming Cowboys(producer), Flappers to Fringe Exhibit: History of Women's Fashion from the 1920s-1970s(creative consultant), Nervous Means Do It: Lifestyle Concept by Mei Ratz, Finding Peabrook: collaboration with photographer Patricia Heal.

Ongoing training includes vocal coaching with Don Lawrence and Meisner Technique
at MCS Studio with Matthew Corozine.

She is a proud member of Actors Equity Association
and Screen Actors Guild.

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