FEATURED ARTISTS

JOHN ISAIAH PEPION

John Isaiah Pepion is a Plains Indian graphic artist from the Piikani Band of the Blackfoot Confederacy. He is based out of the Blackfeet Reservation in north-central Montana, where the Rocky Mountains meet the plains. Pepion is best known for his ledger art — a tradition that developed as the buffalo hide used for painting became scarce, forcing Plains people to adapt by making art work on ledger paper from accounting books. Members of Pepion’s family have practiced ledger art for centuries.

MIKE D. HUBERMAN

Mike D. Huberman is a freelance photographer who also works in video production and broadcast television. He is a graduate of the 2012 Freedom Forum American Indian Journalism Institute at the University of South Dakota, a 2015 Chips Quinn Scholar, and he holds a BA in broadcast journalism from the University of Montana School of Journalism. He co-owns Prime Time Quality Painting, a house painting company in Missoula. Huberman is an enrolled member of the Gros Ventre tribe of the Ft. Belknap Indian Reservation.