Tammie Dupuis, a Native American artist, draws inspiration from her family’s cultural heritage, which includes the Qlispe’ (Upper Pend d’Oreille) and Séliš (Bitterroot Salish) on her father’s side and non-Indigenous settlers on her mother’s side who moved to Montana’s Flathead Reservation. Dupuis’s art investigates the complex histories of both tribes and explores her multicultural identity. Using a variety of materials—such as paint, wood, fabric, resin, hair, and beads—she communicates “both Indigenous and non-Indigenous ways of making and seeing.”
Source: Artist Trust
