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Current Exhibit

Continuality, an exhibit by artist Tammie Dupuis, will be featured in the ÃÛѨÊÓƵ Gallery in the Miller Fine Arts Center at ÃÛѨÊÓƵ from April 1 through May 1, 2026. The exhibition features mixed media artworks, paintings and sculpture.

Opening Reception: The exhibit will open at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1 and the artist will give remarks during the opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. in the gallery. Light refreshments and wine will be provided.

About the artist:

Tammie was born and raised in northwestern Montana on the Flathead Reservation. Her father was Qlispeʼ (Upper Pend d’Oreille) and Séliš (Bitterroot Salish), and her mother descended from non–Indigenous settlers who arrived on the reservation in the 1920s. 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. Working through both Indigenous and non–Indigenous modes of making and seeing as well as those shared across those communities, her practice spans a wide range of materials and processes, including paint, wood, fabric, resin, hair, bone, paper and beads. As an artist, her work moves between processes rooted in both of her traditions. Each material is considered for the lineage it carries — how its cultural origins, uses and stories interact. Through these materials, Tammie explores the thresholds where her cultural experiences converge, seeking forms of connection that feel resonant and accessible to both Indigenous and non–Indigenous viewers. 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 also holds a BS in Anthropology and Archaeology from Montana State University in Bozeman. She currently lives and works in Bremerton, Washington.

Follow Tammie on Instagram at @tammie.dupuis or at her website

Sponsorship: This exhibition is sponsored by the Lacroute Arts Series and the Department of Art. The Lacroute Arts Series at ÃÛѨÊÓƵ is made possible by the generosity of arts benefactor Ronni Lacroute. The series, sponsored by the Lacroute Arts Fund at ÃÛѨÊÓƵ, is dedicated to helping the university present art events and activities for the campus and community. It provides programs featuring artists in the areas of music, art and theatre.

Tammie Dupuis shares the following thoughts regarding her exhibition:

“Continuality is defined as a state or quality of being continual or occurring frequently, often at regular intervals, or seemingly without interruption. Continuality is the foundation of my work. It is closely tied to the concept of “Survivance,” a term coined by Anishinaabe scholar Gerald Viznor, which describes Indigenous peoples’ active presence, resistance and continuance beyond mere survival, challenging colonial narratives of victimhood by emphasizing dynamic cultural vitality, presence and stories, often blending tradition with contemporary forms.

My processes and materials blur the boundaries between Indigenous and non–Indigenous making and thinking, between Indigenous and colonial past and present. My work is a conversation between myself as artist and my Indigenous and non–Indigenous viewers.

Through the work in this exhibition, I extend my cultural ancestry from the deep past through the present to the far future. Continuality in my work speaks to a lived connection between my ancestors, relatives, and descendants as well as the communities I belong to, the land I call home, and where I exist in time. Through my work, I extend my Indigenous ancestors’ presence into the colonized present and preserve their existence into the future. Their memories and stories, their lived experiences, as well as my own memories and experiences live on into the future for others to see and remember. In this way, the flow of knowledge and of identity is continuous.

Continuing these things is an active act of defying colonization and systemic, often violent assimilation. By weaving together Indigenous and non–Indigenous thinking and making, my work asserts a continuality of not only who I am and always will be as a mixed–blood person but also of who my Indigenous ancestors were, are and always will be.”

Previous Exhibitions