Tyrese "Bright Flower" Gould Jacinto: Life As Art

Tyrese “Bright Flower” Gould Jacinto is an Indigenous artist and community leader from the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Nation. For her, art is something you live. Through initiatives like the Cohanzick Lenape Story Symposium, and a deep connection to the Earth, her community’s daily creative practice becomes a living dialogue between generations, carrying forward culture, memory, and identity. Tyrese is the recipient of a 2026 New Jersey Heritage Fellowship. Produced, directed, and edited by Nate Reininga for State of the Arts. Director of Photography, Nate Reininga. Camera by Jessica Dotson and Lyle Shanahan. Special thanks to Young Cedar Singers, Victor Jacinto, and the Cohanzick Nature Reserve.