Atheana Picha is a Coast Salish artist from the Kwantlen First Nation, and her grandmother was from the Tsartlip First Nation on Vancouver Island. Atheana also carries the name Nash’mene’ta’naht meaning “Go-getter woman” given to her by Gerry Oleman from the St’at’imc Nation. Atheana is a multidisciplinary artist working in two-dimensional and three-dimensional media. She attended Langara College for three years focusing on printmaking and ceramics. Picha has been learning wood carving and design from Aaron Nelson-Moody from the Squamish Nation and Coast Salish wool weaving from Debra Sparrow from the Musqueam Nation for several years. Her main focus now is learning from elders, from belongings in museum collections, and from the territory. She has public art pieces throughout the lower mainland such as murals, banners, and vinyl installations. Atheana is a two-time recipient of the YVR Art Foundation Emerging Artist Scholarship, and has shown work at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Vancouver Art Gallery, and has work in the collections of the Museum of Vancouver, Burnaby Art Gallery, and Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art.