Tamara Aupaumut

Tamara Aupaumut is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist and independent curator living on Mni Sota Makoce, also known as Minneapolis, Minnesota. She descends from the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians, the Oneida Nation, and is Pequot, Nehantic, and Montaukett through the Brothertown Indian Nation. 

Her main focus is as a painter and sculptor, working in oil, acrylic, gouache, mixed media, printmaking, photography, papier-mâché, and fiber, along with traditional Native disciplines of beadwork, porcupine quillwork, and birchbark.

Artist Statement:

My creative practice is guided by an epistemological and ontological framework, including what I term “dream-epistemology,” engaging critically with concepts of memory, belonging, interrelationship, space and time. 

Central to my research and artistic production is the enduring influence of my cultural heritage and ancestral lineage, which often serve as foundational elements in the development of my visual concepts. 

I continue to create a collection of multidisciplinary works, This Land Is My Body, that speaks to the healing connection between the Earth and our bodies.

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