TRIBAL AFFILIATION: Penobscot

MEDIUM: Photography

BIOGRAPHY
Maya Tihtiyas Attean (b. 1994) is a Wabanaki artist living in Portland, Maine or Machigonne, raised on the Penobscot Reservation. Her work reflects her ancestry, resilience, and connection to the natural world. Through exploring the duality she embodies within the colonized world she exists within, she marries mediums and techniques of multiple cultures to create new realities and possibilities within her work. Maya earned her BFA within Photography from Maine College of Art & Design in 2023. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Portland Museum of Art and the Abbe Museum.

TRIBAL AFFILIATION: Penobscot

MEDIUM: Photography

BIOGRAPHY
Jason Pardilla is an accomplished outdoorsman, photographer/videographer, wood worker, and councilor. Exploring the Wabanaki Homeland year round, Jason works to round up Wabanaki stories that cause people to contemplate their relationship with nature, while promoting the preservation of wild places everywhere.

Layered by outdoor, travel, adventure, canoeing, and cultural subjects, Jason is known for images that are punctuated by cultural, Wabanaki landscapes. Through the camera lens Jason strives to share his vision of Wabanaki homeland with all people, and inspire them to explore for themselves.

His perspective has earned him opportunities to work with exceptional people, build a birchbark canoe, and represent his tribe as a Penobscot Nation Tribal Councilor. Along with his tribe, Jason lives in his homeland in the Penobscot River Valley.

Jason has established himself as a river guide and creative. He is happiest with his family spending time on the Penobscot River.