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1media/pyette-headshot.jpg2023-04-28T16:13:17+00:00Tiffany Pyette8Poet and multimedia artist from Letcher County, Kentuckystructured_gallery2023-10-03T14:41:44+00:00Tiffany Pyette is a poet and multimedia artist from Letcher County, Kentucky. Tiffany Pyette centers much of her work around the concept of "Good Medicine" - a relationship to the self, to community, to culture, and to the larger environment that highlights the intersections between Pyette's Indigenous, Appalachian, Two-Spirit, and disabled identities. In doing so, Tiffany Pyette not only ties her work to longstanding historical and cultural practices, but uses these practices to envision a future beyond mere survival and towards collective thriving. On an aesthetic level, Tiffany Pyette mirrors the interweaving of identity, culture, and history with a similar oscillation between numerous mediums and disciplines - a demonstration that conventional notions of a singular artistic practice often do not fully capture the depths of expression and representation for a person or community.
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