Indigenous Creatives Roster

Lisa Fruichantie is an activist, futurist, entrepreneur, designer, and thought leader.

Fruichantie's art merges traditional Seminole / Mvskoke Patchwork design with aspects of the heritage, and cultures surrounding and shaping her formative years. Born on Ute land in Southern Colorado and raised in a subsistence village with the Kenaitze people in Alaska in Dena'ina culture, she is of Seminole, Mvskoke, Sicilian, and Irish heritage. Raised between her grandmother, mother, and foster families, as a result, family became those chosen by her, and social activism, fringe music scenes, and underground art movements became her social outlet. Her early years were shaped by her summers when she traveled to visit her grandparents in Oklahoma and her family in the four-corner states. She spent her adolescence immersed in many small rural tribal and non-affluent communities throughout the Southwest. As an adult she had the privilege to embrace her own culture and find balance between the influences that shaped her and the roots of her heritage. Reuniting with her family and her own Southeastern Tribes culture - through art, cooking, music, and the Semvnoli/Mvskoke language - healed her sense of belonging. Lisa’s artwork now finds that balance in nodding to tradition, cultivating the new, and being content with the current. Her innovative designs blend patterns, textiles, and hemlines while keeping the precision and the delicate intricacies of patchwork tradition in the forefront.

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Tacoma, WA