KreativeNative (she/her they/them)
Kristin Gentry is passionate about using her art to create different ways to preserve her traditional Southeastern tribal culture of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. She uses her art to educate and restore the beauty of her people’s journey to where they are as Chahta Okla, Choctaw People, today. Through her art she continues to find more of her Indian Identity as a Chahta Ohoyo, Choctaw Woman, and Ishki, Mother. She understands that the need for her cultural art is necessary to the future of her daughter and her people. She works to involve her community through education and being the voice for Native American artists and Native American women in today’s society. She is a writer, curator, painter, printmaker, and photographer. For gender identity, she spent most of her life feeling not like a woman until she understood she was having a cultural issue. Within her tribal culture, she is a Chahta woman, but outside of that she identifies as non-binary as her culture historically doesn't embrace a gender binary.
