Kelly Jean Church (Match-e-benash-she-wish Potawatomi/Odawa/Ojibwe) is a black ash basket maker, Woodlands style painter, birchbark biter, and educator.

[4] She also creates experimental baskets with her own designs that incorporate materials such as copper, photographs, and plastic window blinds – the latter a warning of what the future might look like without black ash trees.

This precontact Great Lakes art form involves biting designs with one's eyeteeth into a folded sheet of young paper birch bark.

[2] Church paints figures from her tribes' oral histories, such as Nanabozho, or the wildlife native to Michigan, such as sandhill cranes.

The citation noted her teaching and mentorship work, which "goes beyond the artistic practice to include discussions in biochemistry, forest management, invasive pest control, traditional language skills, and deeply personal memories of family history".

[6] Her work, Sustaining Traditions–Digital Memories, was acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum as part of the Renwick Gallery's 50th Anniversary Campaign.