Tiana Boisseau-Palo

My work ranges from traditional two-dimensional prints to three-dimensional printed sculptures. I obtained my BFA from the University of Tennessee - Knoxville in 2023 and am currently working towards my MFA from the University of Colorado - Boulder in 2025. 

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I am Creek-Cherokee on my mother’s side and my work reflects those routes. I focus on memory, family, tedium, and ritual using family photographs, beadwork and basketweave patterns, and birds. Each family member has a bird associated with them and I often use those motifs to represent them in my work. Though I work in all forms of printmaking, my one true love falls to intaglio where I can sit with copper plates for days to recreate the time-consuming process of beadwork (both loom work and applique). Maps often show up in my work as an homage to both my father – a former truck driver – and my childhood which was filled with road trips all over the country. 

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Powwow regalia also appears constantly in my work. My family was big on the powwow circuit in Florida and Oklahoma for years until my father decided he did not want to spend his weekends driving for hundreds of miles and I have finally gotten to the point in my life where I can return to that circuit. My capstone for undergrad was a recreation of a Powwow circle and regalia made from paper, now I focus my regalia into smaller two-dimensional prints where I can abstract them by utilizing close-ups, mimicking the photographs that I used to take as a child.