Cameron Decker is Diné, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, and a descendant of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes. He is fascinated with printmaking, painting, drawing, digital art and public arts. He served as a faculty member at Salish Kootenai College in the Fine Arts department, serving as program Chair of the department for 4 years. Cameron recently worked at the Missoula Art Museum as an Educator and Outreach Coordinator. He holds an M.A. in Fine Arts in Integrated Arts in Education (The Creative Pulse program). He will have a painting featured in an upcoming exhibition Indigenous Identity: Here, Now & Always curated by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. The exhibit will start at the Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers University and then travel to three other venues between Sept. 2023 – 2025. The painting is titled Place dream, tʔe t čen nspsuppsm, and is painted with natural pigments that he processed into oil paints and also drawn with drawing charcoal he made. He is now co-owner of Xʷlxʷilt together with his partner Aspen Decker who is an enrolled member of CSKT and fluent speaker of Salish language. They focus on ways to support our Montana schools and institutions with authentic, appropriate, and engaging lessons about Indigenous values, contributions and innovations.