Artist John Pepion models his newest collaboration with Eighth Generation, a wool blanket titled Bear Claws. Photo by Whitney Snow for Big Sky Journal.
John Isaiah Pepion
John Isaiah Pepion, is a Plains Indian graphic artist from the Piikani Band of the Blackfoot Confederacy. He is based out of the Blackfeet reservation in north-central Montana, where the Rocky Mountains meet the plains. He is best known for his ledger art, which is an art tradition that developed in Plains tribes.
“Since his first solo art show, Pepion has exhibited nationally and internationally, with work in the permanent collections of the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., and the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles, California. .”
