Ann Pollard-Ranco
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TRIBAL AFFILIATION: Penobscot
MEDIUM: Photography, Beadwork, Textiles
ARTIST STATEMENT
Ann Pollard-Ranco is a mixed media artist and citizen of the Penobscot Nation and Bilijk First Nation. Her interdisciplinary work weaves together photography, beadwork, and textile arts to explore themes of cultural revitalization, memory, and relationship to place. As a person of the Dawnland, she is guided by light in her creative process. Her work reflects a deep sense of cultural responsibility, shaped by her relationship to Penobscot language, homeland, and community. She is also involved in community-based language revitalization, rooted in relationship to land and kinship.
