Carolyn Anderson

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TRIBAL AFFILIATION: Maliseet

MEDIUM: Painting/Illustration

BIOGRAPHY
Carolyn is a visual artist living in Houlton, Maine. Carolyn is a 2013 graduate from the University of Maine at Presque Isle where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with painting and photography concentrations, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Art Education.

Carolyn started out with a desire for photography and fell into a love for painting. Her medium of choice is acrylics but at times using other mediums as well. Inspiration for her work comes from her hometown, nature and her tribe The Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians.

While working at the Houlton Band of Maliseets, Carolyn was busy photographing events as well as creating artwork for fundraisers. Currently she has work on display at The Shire Ale House, Houlton, The Pine Grill in Monticello, and Wintergreen Art Center in Presque Isle.. She will also be participating in multiple art and craft shows throughout Maine beginning with Houlton’s eclipse celebration.

 

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Marisa Joly

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TRIBAL AFFILIATION: Listuguj Mi'gmaq First Nation

MEDIUM: Painting/Illustration

BIOGRAPHY
Marissa Joly is a Mi’kmaq visual artist residing in Durham, ME. Her Wabanaki heritage holds a lot of inspiration for her creations. Nature, color theory, indigenous patterns, and organic shapes play big roles in her work. She aims to strike up conversations on spirituality and emotions brought forth through her use of color, cultural symbolism, and abstract designs. She works in the mediums of painting (small and large scale murals), printmaking, digital art, and crafting dreamcatchers.

 

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Norma Randi Marshall

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TRIBAL AFFILIATION: Passamaquoddy

MEDIUM: Painting/Illustration

BIOGRAPHY
Norma Randi is a Wabanaki artist and homesteader from Maine. She is a member of the Passamaquoddy Tribe and was raised in her Passamaquoddy mother’s ancestral lands at Sipayik, Maine. She has roots from her father’s clan of the Hidatsa and Mandan people of North Dakota. Norma is a painter and digital art creator; she uses acrylic, oils, and watercolors as her mediums. 

Norma draws inspiration from her ancestral heritage and life lived with her husband. She has love for the various landscapes and palettes of Maine skies, earth, and waters; experiencing the beautiful Maine environment that her maternal ancestors called home and traversed for 12000 plus years. The focus on her heritage is also a teaching tool for herself to be aware of the history of her ancestors, how their lives were lived prior to colonization and after, their culture, their environments and ecology, and the people within the communities who continue carrying on traditions despite the initial setback of assimilation. It is a form of self healing and expression.

Norma Randi is a graduate of the University of Maine at Machias with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. She is a member of the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor. Norma has an art show at least once a year. In 2023 she won a People’s Choice Award in June for her Language preservation piece at the Abbe Museum Indian Market weekend. She will be featured at the Eastport Arts Center in June 2024 for a solo show and at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens from mid-July through mid-October. 

You can now purchase her small works at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, and the Acadia National Park Stores.  You can see her in person at various craft fairs in Maine selling her art and wares.

 

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David Lonebear Sanipass

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TRIBAL AFFILIATION: Mi’kmaq

MEDIUM: Painting; Jewelry; Woodwork

ARTIST STATEMENT
My name is David Lonebear Sanipass, I grew up in northern Maine. I am from the Mi’kmaq Nation. I am a carver, make flutes, I paint and sketch. As an artist you want to be able to represent your art. I find the best way is to be able to talk about what it means. Some of what I do is so intricate you’re not really looking at what it means. The representation has been lost through interpretation. Part of the beauty isn't appreciated because it doesn’t speak to you. We have found a way for my art to speak with you, to come from my spirit, so it can be better appreciated and you will know more where I am coming from.

 

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