ARTIST CV

Paige Pettibon
Visual Artist
Tacoma, WA
paigepettibon.com
plaintoseajewelry@gmail.com
Instagram: @Plain_to_Sea | @Paige_Pettibon

EXPERIENCE

Puget Sound Book Artists – Member (2025–Present)
Indigenous Creatives Collective – Board Member (2023–Present)
Stonington Gallery – Represented Artist (2020–Present)
Muckleshoot Tribal School – Contracted Illustrator & Visual Designer (Aug 2021–2023)

EDUCATION

Evergreen State College, Tacoma, WA
B.A., Native Pathways Program (2019–2021)

Tacoma Community College, Tacoma, WA
Associate of Arts (2013–2019)

PARC Artist Training Cohort, Tacoma, WA
Public Art Training & Projects (Spring 2020)

Yəhaw’ Mentorship Program, Tacoma Cohort (2018)

Lushootseed Language Institute, University of Washington, Tacoma, WA
Certificate of Completion (August 2017)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS

2025

• “Strength & Beauty”, Group Exhibit – Stonington Gallery (Feb)

• “Nature and the Book”, Group Exhibition – Bloedel Reserve (Mar–Apr)

• Lush Cosmetics – Land Acknowledgment Banner, digital print (Mar–Present)

• “Nature and the Book”, Group Exhibition – Elisabeth C. Miller Library (Feb)

• “Power of the Press”, Group Exhibition – Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (Mar–Jun)

• “Two Sides of the Same Coin”, Solo Exhibit – CORE Gallery (Apr)

• BJ’s Bingo Gift Shop Mural – Hand-painted mural, 30’ x 2’ (Apr)

• “From Clam Shores to Camas Prairies”, Mural Series – Pacific Lutheran University

  • Panel 1: 9’10” x 9’

  • Panel 2: 20’5” x 9’

  • Panel 3: 4’5” x 9’ (May–Present)

• “tomakesenseofitall”, Group Exhibit – Tacoma Art Museum (May–Oct)

• “Western Ho”, Group Exhibit – Columbia City Gallery (Jun–Jul)

2024

• “Two Sides of the Same Coin”, Solo Exhibit – Tacoma Community College, Gig Harbor Campus (Sep–Dec)

• “Homesick”, Solo Exhibit – CORE Gallery (Feb)

• Seattle Aquarium Gift Shop Mural – Digital prints

  • Panel 1: 159” x 105”

  • Panel 2: 165” x 105” (May–Present)

• “Her Strength”, Mural – BJ’s Bingo (8' x 10') hand-painted (May–Present)

• “Honoring Those Who Came Before”, Group Exhibit – Stonington Gallery (Jun)

2023

• “arnaq, hana’ack, smʔem”, Group Exhibit – Columbia City Gallery (May–Jun)

• “Journey of Salmon”, Hand-painted Mural – Edmonds Main Street Commons (May–Present)

• ʔalʔal Cafe, Summer Exhibition (Jun–Sep)

• “Invisible Fish”, Group Exhibit – Surrey Art Gallery, BC, Canada (Jun–Sep)

• “The Power of Water”, Group Exhibit – Stonington Gallery (Jun–Jul)

• Seattle Aquarium – Permanent Interactive Seasonal Wheel Display (Sep–Present)

• “Fire Keepers”, Group Show – Stonington Gallery (Dec)

2022

• “Ancestors Know Who We Are”, Virtual Exhibition – Smithsonian NMAI (Spring–Present)

• “Native Portraiture: Power and Perception” – Tacoma Art Museum (Spring 2022–Fall 2024)

• Distinguished Summer Artist – Banks Center for Education Justice, UW (Jul)

• “Changing the Conversation” – Collins Memorial Library (Aug–Dec)

• Kraken HIFE Jerseys – Indigenous Peoples Night (Dec)

• “Unmasked”, Group Exhibit – Stonington Gallery (Dec)

2021

• Land Acknowledgment Mural – Alma Mater (Jan)

• Wetlands Mural – North Seattle College (Mar–Present)

• Basket Tradition Mural – MadArt Gallery (Apr)

• “Tradition Keepers”, Group Exhibit – Stonington Gallery (Jun)

• Vaccinated Campaign – Puyallup Tribal Health Authority (Sep)

• “Weaving Communities Together”, Mural – Kraken Iceplex / Starbucks (Sep–Present)

• Exam Room & Front Porch Murals – Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic, digital print (Sep–Present)

• “Reconnection”, Group Exhibit – Stonington Gallery (Dec–Jan 2022)

2020

• Tacoma Recycling Bins – Cultural & landscape design (Mar)

• “Rhoda” – 950 Gallery (Mar–Apr)

• “ALL IN WA” – Theo Chocolate Collaboration (Jun)

• Black Lives Matter Posters – Posters for Activism (Jul)

• “Honoring Salish Sea”, Group Exhibit – Stonington Gallery (Sep)

• Rise, Resist, Reclaim Posters – Seattle Canoes Affinity Group (Oct)

2019

• “For Tacoma” – Alma Mater (Jan–Feb)

• “Women’s Work” – Columbia City Gallery (Feb–Mar)

• Sharing Blankets – Wallowa Homeland, OR (May)

2018–2019

• Yəhaw’ Exhibition – King Street Station (2018–2019)

• “Lifting the Sky” Fashion Show – Seattle Art Museum (May 2019)

PUBLICATIONS

• “Autumn”, Illustrated Children’s Book – Abrams Books, Cameron Kids (2024)

• “I Am Unique”, Tribal Grant Book – Muckleshoot Tribe (2023)

• “Adventures with Lilly”, Tribal Grant Book – Muckleshoot Tribe (2021)

• Indigenous Literature Grant – Chief Leschi Schools (2019)

SKILLS

• Jewelry Making

• Watercolor Painting

• Acrylic & Oil Painting

• Mixed Media