“For more than five hundred years, Native communities across the Americas have demonstrated resilience and resistance in the face of violent efforts to separate them from their land, culture, and each other.” (source: usdac.us/nativeland). As custodians of space-based programs, how do we contribute to the reparations necessary to indemnify native people from the genocide and colonization so harmful to their communities? Does your organization acknowledge the traditional Native inhabitants of the land when introducing programs? Is this enough? Join c3:initiative in a kaleidoscope conversation as we consider: How do we move beyond sustainability for ourselves and toward reciprocity with the land and its indigenous people? What is responsible? What is enough?
EVENT RESOURCES
> View and download the questions from the conference session
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ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
Join arts leaders, funders, policy-makers, residency staff, board members, educators and artists from across the globe as we explore support for today's artists and artist-centered approaches to engaging our communities and developing healthy organizations.
The Alliance of Artists Communities' 2018 Annual Conference will be hosted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from October 15-18! All are welcome! From nuts-and-bolts sessions on organizational development, to interviews with artists on creative practice, and from conversations exploring cultural trends to the role of artists in society today, plus tours of Philadelphia's thriving arts centers - join the conversation!
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
Ka'ila Farrell-Smith | Co-Director, Signal Fire
Ka'ila Farrell-Smith is a contemporary Klamath Modoc visual artist based in Chiloquin, Oregon. The conceptual framework of her practice focuses on channeling research through a creative flow of experimentation and artistic playfulness rooted in Indigenous aesthetics and abstract formalism. Utilizing painting and traditional Indigenous art practices, her work explores space in-between the Indigenous and Western paradigms. Ka’ila displays work in the form of paintings, objects, and self-curated installations. Ka’ila is a Co-Director for Signal Fire artist residency program. Her work has been exhibited at Out of Sight, Museum of Northwest Art, Tacoma Art Museum, WA; Missoula Art Museum, MT and Medici Fortress, Cortona, Italy; and in Oregon she has work in the permanent collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and Portland Art Museum. Ka’ila has recently been selected to attend artist residencies at Caldera, Djerassi, Ucross, Playa, Institute of American Indian Arts, and Crow's Shadow. Ka'ila Farrell-Smith received a BFA in Painting from Pacific Northwest College of Art and an MFA in Contemporary Art Practices Studio from Portland State University.
Cannupa Hanska Luger | Artist
Cannupa Hanska Luger is a New Mexico-based multi-disciplinary artist. Raised on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, he is of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, Austrian, and Norwegian descent. Using social collaboration and in response to timely and site-specific issues, Cannupa Hanska produces multi-pronged projects that take many forms. Through monumental installations that incorporate ceramics, video, sound, fiber, steel and cut paper, Cannupa Hanska interweaves performance and political action to communicate stories about 21st century Indigeneity. This work provokes diverse publics to engage with Indigenous peoples and values apart from the lens of colonial social structuring and oftentimes presents a call to action to protect land from capitalist exploits. He combines critical cultural analysis with dedication and respect for the diverse materials, environments and communities he engages. Cannupa Hanska holds a BFA in Studio Arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts and his work is collected and exhibited nationally and internationally.
Shir Ly Grisanti | Director, c3:initiative
Shir Ly Grisanti is a Jewish Latinx immigrant woman. She founded c3:initiative to support the production of new creative projects by facilitating community engagement between makers & thinkers, arts & cultural institutions and various publics. Her work is guided by the philosophy that society moves toward greater social justice through individual growth, collaboration and community-building. Prior to juggling the joys of entrepreneurial work and motherhood, Shir worked in the Education and Public Programs department of three wonderful and women-founded museums: Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, OR; The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, PA; and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, MA. She received her MA in Museum Studies at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia; BA in International Relations at Tufts University, Medford, MA; and a certificate in Mediation & Conflict Resolution from The Institute for International Mediation and Conflict Resolution, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.