Lindsey Maillard

Institute of American Indian Arts | Ilíiaitchik: Indigenous Correspondents Program (ICP)

Lindsey Maillard is a queer, multidisciplinary artist born and raised in the subarctic region known to her people as Cheno’, Alaska, better known as Fairbanks, Alaska. Lindsey grew up spending time taking care of her family’s fish camp across the river from Fairbanks; on snowmachines, snowshoes and by river boat, hauling wood, eating traditional foods and harvesting plants. She has a deep love for traditional foods and medicines and has been helping organize culture camps in her neighboring village of Nenana, Alaska for the past three years. When she’s not creating her art, she is skiing with her dog, cooking with her loved ones and enjoying live music.

Lindsey’s art reflects her deeply personal and spiritual journey living as an Indigenous femme in Alaska; where colonialism, climate change and capitalism are consistently altering her, and her family’s daily lives. Lindsey’s deep love for traditional foods, her matriarchs, the land and the animals permeate everything she creates. Her mediums include pottery, printmaking, photography and painting. Lindsey is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico with a focus on painting, mostly with acrylics.