č’adac (Inheritance)

Stories move through time in many forms. They live in the land, in language, in archival collections, and in family photographs. They pass from one generation to the next. They are revealed in dreams. In č’adac (Inheritance), artist Epiphany Couch reflects on a personal desire to know the stories of her ancestors in all their complexity. She grapples with the ways ancestral stories were interrupted by U.S. policies that sought to erase Indigenous life and culture. Through this act of remembering, she explores the fullness of inheritance, belonging, and repair. Drawing on photography, beadwork, weaving, collage, and sculptural forms, Couch weaves family stories, archival research, and dreams into works that consider our stories as our greatest inheritance.

Tacoma Art Museum, 2026

​Studio photography: Mario Gallucci