Thu July 25, 2024
On Repairing Ties to Indigenous Ceremony & Culture Through Art (In-Person)
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Choctaw multimedia artist Tricia Rainwater's wide-ranging work is rooted in themes of identity and grief. Her artistic practice offers a perspective through the lens of a Choctaw survivor. Tricia grew up in nature and in ceremony, but her relationship with family and ancestry have been shaped by the long tentacles of United States policy and practice towards Indigenous peoples: specifically, the forced removal of Choctaw people from their lands and the journey on the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma.
In her recent series, Falama: to return, she shares a sustained desire to repair ties to ceremony and culture. To create Falama, she set out on the Trail of Tears, the route followed by five southeastern tribal nations-including her own ancestors-when they were forcibly displaced from their homes to areas west of the Mississippi designated as Indian Territory. Along the way-seeking the familiar and finding a sense of place in the ground on which she was walking-she collected soil from her original familial homelands and sites along the Trail that were important to the Choctaw people.
Join Tricia and Nunatsiavut Inuk and self-taught multimedia artist and writer Chantal Jung for an engaging exploration of Tricia's life and artistic work. In their conversation they explore Tricia's ongoing journeys of return, reconnection, and repair with her Indigenous family, culture, and land, past and present.
Sliding scale $0 to $25.
Presented by CIIS Public Programs
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In her recent series, Falama: to return, she shares a sustained desire to repair ties to ceremony and culture. To create Falama, she set out on the Trail of Tears, the route followed by five southeastern tribal nations-including her own ancestors-when they were forcibly displaced from their homes to areas west of the Mississippi designated as Indian Territory. Along the way-seeking the familiar and finding a sense of place in the ground on which she was walking-she collected soil from her original familial homelands and sites along the Trail that were important to the Choctaw people.
Join Tricia and Nunatsiavut Inuk and self-taught multimedia artist and writer Chantal Jung for an engaging exploration of Tricia's life and artistic work. In their conversation they explore Tricia's ongoing journeys of return, reconnection, and repair with her Indigenous family, culture, and land, past and present.
Sliding scale $0 to $25.
Presented by CIIS Public Programs
Choctaw multimedia artist Tricia Rainwater's wide-ranging work is rooted in themes of identity and grief. Her artistic practice offers a perspective through the lens of a Choctaw survivor. Tricia grew up in nature and in ceremony, but her relationship with family and ancestry have been shaped by the long tentacles of United States policy and practice towards Indigenous peoples: specifically, the forced removal of Choctaw people from their lands and the journey on the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma.
In her recent series, Falama: to return, she shares a sustained desire to repair ties to ceremony and culture. To create Falama, she set out on the Trail of Tears, the route followed by five southeastern tribal nations-including her own ancestors-when they were forcibly displaced from their homes to areas west of the Mississippi designated as Indian Territory. Along the way-seeking the familiar and finding a sense of place in the ground on which she was walking-she collected soil from her original familial homelands and sites along the Trail that were important to the Choctaw people.
Join Tricia and Nunatsiavut Inuk and self-taught multimedia artist and writer Chantal Jung for an engaging exploration of Tricia's life and artistic work. In their conversation they explore Tricia's ongoing journeys of return, reconnection, and repair with her Indigenous family, culture, and land, past and present.
Sliding scale $0 to $25.
Presented by CIIS Public Programs
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In her recent series, Falama: to return, she shares a sustained desire to repair ties to ceremony and culture. To create Falama, she set out on the Trail of Tears, the route followed by five southeastern tribal nations-including her own ancestors-when they were forcibly displaced from their homes to areas west of the Mississippi designated as Indian Territory. Along the way-seeking the familiar and finding a sense of place in the ground on which she was walking-she collected soil from her original familial homelands and sites along the Trail that were important to the Choctaw people.
Join Tricia and Nunatsiavut Inuk and self-taught multimedia artist and writer Chantal Jung for an engaging exploration of Tricia's life and artistic work. In their conversation they explore Tricia's ongoing journeys of return, reconnection, and repair with her Indigenous family, culture, and land, past and present.
Sliding scale $0 to $25.
Presented by CIIS Public Programs
show less
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