Associations & Recognitions
Founder: Good Way Gardens, Turns Out Records
Co-Founder: Weda Skirts, Heyleon, Power Lillies
Kansas Touring Roster Artist
President, Folk Alliance Region Midwest
Board of Directors, Music to Life
2024 Mid-America Arts Alliance Interchange Fellow
2024 Mid-America Arts Alliance Artist Leadership Fellow
2023-2024 Music to Life Musician Changemaker Accelerator
2022 Native American Music Awards Best Country Recording, “Music is Medicine”
2022 & 2019 First Peoples Fund Artist in Business Leadership Fellow
2021 - 2024 Western Arts Alliance Advancing Indigenous Performance
Native Launchpad Artist
2021 Walnut Valley Festival New Song Showcase Winner
(“New Song”, “Glad We Came”)
2020 Western Arts Alliance Advancing Indigenous Performance Fellow
Workshops
"Local artist nabs several Native American Music Award nominations" - I Heart Local Music
"Resillience, Adaptation Highlight Dawson's Latest Single Release" - Emporia Gazette
Heartland Song Network Interview with Diana Lynn
"All of Life is a Circle" - Emporia Gazette
"The New Fast-Paced Normal For Indigenous Performing Artists" - First Peoples Fund
Elexa Dawson Awarded Grant - CPN Hownikan
"A Conversation With Elexa Dawson" - Great Plains Traverse
"Songs Filled With Stories" - Emporia Gazette feature
"Warm Honey Mixed With Prairie Dirt" - First People's Fund
"CPN's Elexa Dawson releases new album with The Skirts" - CPN Hownikan
"Skirts in Salina at Smoky Hills River Festival" - Salina Journal
"Chase County band overwhelmed at Women’s March turnout" - Topeka Capital Journal
"Raising Voices to Protect the Flint Hills" - Sierra Club Magazine
"What Makes the Flint Hills of Kansas a Sight to See" - Smithsonian Magazine
