Drawing my Lines, self portrait, 2025

35mm film, charcoal

Bella Trigg is a mixed Iñupiaq and Yup’ik artist and journalist based in the Bay Area, California. Working across writing and photography, she tells stories from her lived experience as an Indigenous person in the diaspora. She is often translating and reinterpreting stories passed down from her matriarchs, along with documenting her reconnection to familial and cultural knowledge. Through her practice, she intends on honoring her family and the Land.

Bella earned her BA in Journalism + Design from The New School in 2026. Currently, she is working on an extension of her thesis project “Homesick.”