Gail Tremblay

She is known for weaving baskets from film footage that depicts Native American people, such as Western movies and anthropological documentaries.

[1] Tremblay was a faculty member at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and taught courses in English, art history, and Native American studies.

Tremblay described her work as combining historical Native American techniques and materials with mainstream artistic expression.

[14] Tremblay's art draws from Native American history, Indigenous cosmologies, along with literature, Western movies, and other pop culture references.

Using the Northeastern Woodlands fancy-stick basket weaving, Tremblay wove with, not brown ash and sweetgrass used by Northeastern tribes, but recycled 16 mm leader and film on sexually transmitted diseases, elegantly subverting multiple stereotypes.”[16] Tremblay'sy solo exhibitions and group shows include Gail Tremblay: Fiber, Metal, Wood (1988), Museum of the Plains Indian, Browning, Montana;[17] The Empty Fish Trap Installation (2004), Evergreen State College Gallery, Olympia, Washington;[17] Gail Tremblay: Twenty Years of Making (2002), Daybreak Star Cultural Center, Seattle;[17] Reframing Images, Conceptualizing Indigenous Art (2013), Froelick Gallery, Portland, Oregon;[17][better source needed]and Art of Gail Tremblay (2017), Eastern Washington University Downtown Gallery, Cheney, Washington.