Lila, Choctaw, and Mommy’s Quarantine Collage
This digital photo collage tells the story of how a single mother in a PhD program, along with her two small asthmatic children, and annoyingly magical chihuahua, survived the Covid pandemic.
About the Artist
Millicent Michelle Pepion is a mother, Bitter Water born for the Blackfeet Nation. Born in Tuba City, Arizona, but was raised primarily in Mesa where she had two children, Lila Mavis and Choctaw Leonard Lowery. Millicent and her family reside in Tucson as she completes her PhD program in American Indian Studies at The University of Arizona.
