Victor Pepion

Blackfoot artist and muralist.

Victor Pepion was born on the Blackfeet Reservation and attended the reservation's Holy Family Mission Boarding School. Pepion went toSalem Oregon Chemawa Indian School from 1939-40. In 1941, he created a series of murals at the Museum of the Plains Indians, Browning, Montana. He studied under German artist Winold Reiss. Pepion attended the Los Angeles Art Institute. In 1946-48 he studied art t the University of Oklahoma, University of NewMexico, Montasna State University. He earned a BFA from the University of South Dakota and a MA from Highlands University in Las Vegas, NV.

Pepion taught art at Oklahoma's Chilacco Indianb School from 1950-1951 and Arizona Phoenix Indian School from 1951-52