Brant grew up on the western Plains Indian reservations (Sioux, Cheyenne, Assiniboine) where the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Public Health employed her family. She has lived and worked in Montana, Wyoming, London, England, and Missouri and in 1999 moved to Florida to take a studio teaching position at Florida International University. She has exhibited in Belfast Ireland, and London. England as well as nationally, including venues in New York, California, Illinois, as well as the western states.
The year of teaching at Missouri’s Truman State University, 1997-98, introduced her to working with surface design. This introduction to the subversive use of found cloth and the needle arts has affected her art making as well as her teaching. Brant offers a fibers course as well as teaching painting , drawing and thesis 2 at FIU.
In 1992 she was awarded the Wyoming Visual Arts Fellowship. In 1993 her work in the collaborative art group, Kunstwaffen was awarded a New Forms Regional Initiative program with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller and Andy Warhol Foundations for Cattle/Text Interaction. In 2003 she won the South Florida Cultural Consortium for Visual and Media arts for her Tabled Reports project.
Her most recent museum exhibition was The Flying Carpet and other Re-usables held at the Patrica and Phillip Frost Art Museum.
