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Embossed paper, 12x12, 2025

I am a person of mixed blood; my father was Bitterroot Salish and Q’lispe and my mother was of Euro-Western descent. Because of this dual heritage, the themes and processes in my art are intercultural. I range between both Indigenous and non-Indigenous processes and materials contemplating how those shape my work, what they mean to me, what they mean to my viewers, and what their history says in my work. I practice both Indigenous and non-Indigenous ways of seeing and making, and these elements are fused together in my work.

Tammie was born and raised in Northwestern Montana on the Flathead Reservation. Her father was Qlispeʼ and Séliš , and her mother was of Euro-Western descent. Situated between these two cultural lineages, her aesthetic navigates their intertwined and often fraught histories while exploring her own experience as a mixed-blood person. Tammie earned her MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston in 2022 and her BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle in 2019. She currently lives and works in Bremerton, Washington.