Matthew Provost Naatsikapamatoosin (Two Smudge) (b. 1995, Fort Macloed, AB) is a designer, printmaker, beader, and visual artist from the Piikani Nation within the Blackfoot Confederacy. Matthew is an emerging designer that focuses on creating garments that are thoughtfully created to tell stories through design. Many of his designs incorporate notions of Siksikaitsitapi influence through elements of Niitoyis (Lodges). For him this creates a sense of home in his work as well the ability to share Siksikaitsitapi ways of knowing.
As a visual artist his practice is broad and continues to grow, he has incorporated forms of block printing into ledger art that has helped him learn about specific design elements of the Blackfoot People. Matthew has been designing and creating professionally since 2016. Matthew debuted as a designer in the 2023 Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week, and in 2024 was invited down to share his collection in Santa Fe in a collective show with 4KINSHIP. Matthew has created commissioned pieces for Crack Gallery, Beadwork for Better Gift Shop™ located in Toronto and Balansa Sound Shop in Busan, South Korea.
Matthew currently practices on the territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh).