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Ann Pollard-Ranco
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.
Jason Pardilla
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.
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Maya Attean
TRIBAL AFFILIATION: Penobscot & Passamaquoddy
PANEL: Native Photography as Self-Determination
MEDIUM: Photography
BIOGRAPHY
Maya Tihtiyas Attean (b. 1994) is a Wabanaki (Penobscot & Passamaquoddy) artist living in Abenaki territory in Maine, 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 has been shown at the Portland Museum of Art, the Abbe Museum, the ICA at MECA&D, SPACE Gallery, and more. She has received the BIPOC studio award from SPACE Gallery in 2024, the Visionary Award from the Film Photo Award in 2025, and is a Kindling fund 2026 grantee. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Portland Museum of Art and the Abbe Museum.
