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Relevance: Making and Moving Forward

by Salisha Old Bull

Indigenous artists create art with many of the same processes in the art world. Creating within a niche can be both challenging and achievable at the same time. Navigating within this path can seem like one is addressing many issues at once because of the history of Indigenous peoples. Indigenous artists face challenges of representing their group of people along with expressing their creativity. The journey within this path addresses both relevance and the idea of creating outside the expectation of traditional arts.

About the Artist:

Salisha Old Bull was born in Eastern Montana and raised on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Western Montana. Her mother is Salish and her father is Crow so she has a well-rounded bundle of Indigenous teachings from the Montana area. She is married to Shandin Pete and has 5 children. She was an aspiring artist as a child but chose to follow a different career path. She kept art in the background of her life and expressed most of her creativity through beadwork. She was taught to bead by her maternal grandmother, Rachel Arlee Bowers when she was a very young child and considers her earliest memories of beading at about her second grade in elementary school. She has been beading since that time and has supplemented her life educationally with five post-secondary degrees. She gains inspiration from traditional ecological knowledge from both Salish and Crow tribes and uses this imagery within her artwork. Aside from beading, she enjoys painting, photography, digital art, and drawing.