Tamara Aupaumut is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist and independent curator living on Mni Sota Makoce, also known as Minneapolis, Minnesota. She descends from the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians, the Oneida Nation, and is Pequot, Nehantic, and Montaukett through the Brothertown Indian Nation.

Her main focus is as a painter and sculptor, working in oil, acrylic, gouache, mixed media, printmaking, photography, papier-mâché, and fiber, along with traditional Native disciplines of beadwork, porcupine quillwork, and birchbark.

Aupaumut’s artwork has been exhibited at All My Relations Arts and the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, regionally in the Midwest at the Watermark Art Center and Plains Art Museum, and in New York at the Albany Institute of History and Art and the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center.

Tamara was honored as the recipient of the 2025 Jim Denomie Memorial Scholarship, awarded to a Native artist who best exemplifies the values Jim demonstrated in his own career: commitment to excellence; generosity of spirit; and engagement in community.

To learn more about the Jim Denomie Memorial Scholarship, please visit: https://allmyrelationsarts.org/opportunities/jim-d-scholarship/