Jeffrey Veregge

(American | Port Gamble S'Klallam, born 1974, died 2024)

Jeffrey Veregge (Port Gamble S’Klallam) (1974-2024) called his art style as “Salish Geek.” He blended his love of comic books, toys, TV, and film with his Native perspective. His art has appeared on the covers and insides of over 100 comic books for Marvel and other comics. He also created the exit mural for Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle and "Of Gods & Heroes" – two giant, fifty-foot-long murals – for the permanent collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. “My origins are not supernatural, nor have they been enhanced by radioactive spiders. I am simply a Native American artist and writer whose creative mantra is best summed up with a word from my tribe’s own language as: “taʔčaʔx̣ʷéʔtəŋ”, which means 'get into trouble'."

Jeffrey Veregge is an enrolled member of the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe. He was raised and lived most of his life on the Little Boston reservation, located near Kingston on the Kitsap Peninsula, southern Puget Sound, Western Washington. He is also of Suquamish and Duwamish tribal ancestry. Veregge graduated from the Art Institute of Seattle and also studied with Tsimshian master carver David Boxley to learn Salish formline design.