Anthony Melting Tallow, Bo'taan'niis, [Flying Chief],
I am an enrolled tribal member of the Siksikaitsitapi Blackfoot First Nation. Visual Artist, Public Speaker, Indigenous social justice advocate. As a resident of Chicopee, Massachusetts since 2005. I am presently producing art work that expresses new ideas based within explorations of my cultural heritage as visual environmental statements rooted in traditional/ancient Blackfoot artways. As multimedia expressions I embrace color as language, evoking form as tradition. Marking issues of current context and discourse in land defense, cultural resilience, post contact document and aspirations for healing in these relevant states of Indigenous peoples movements toward social justice, relating to the natural world and, the impact of human activity on its condition and ultimate preservation.
