Indigenous Artists Gathering CELC Closing Panel
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ABOUT THE INDIGENOUS ARTS LEADERS
LILY E. MANYCOLORS | Lily is a mixed Choctaw, African-American and Anglo-Australian mother, interdisciplinary artist and scholar whose works are centered in decolonizing and the restoration of Indigenous sovereignty. Manycolors’ works traverse vast emotional terrain in search of liberation and authenticity. Her works oscillate between art forms mirroring the multiplicity of the human experience carving out decolonial space in the colonial binary. With a focus on public art and access, Manycolors dedicates much of her work to the reclaiming of space and resources for Indigenous people. Her works are a direct action against the cultural standards of genocide of Indigenous people. Manycolors is currently a Presidential Fellow Graduate student at RISD where her work on decolonization and the restoration of Indigenous sovereignty continues.
SHARON DAY | Sharon, Ojibwe is enrolled in the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe. She is one of the founder’s of the Indigenous Peoples Task Force. IPTF has strived to ground its’ services in the culture of American Indian people. She is an artist, musician, and writer. Sharon has received numerous awards, including the Resourceful Woman Award, the Gisela Knopka Award, BIHA’s Women of Color Award, The National Native American AIDS Prevention Resource Center’s Red Ribbon Award, and the Alston Bannerman Sabbatical Award. The Governor of the State of Minnesota, and the mayors of both St. Paul and Minneapolis named November 10, 1998 Sharon M. Day, day. In 1998, the M’dewin were called to help the Mendota Dakota people save a spring that is sacred to the Dakota. The road was built 200 feet from the spring but the spring still flows. In 2003, when Grandmother Josephine Mandamin walked Lake Superior, Sharon walked two days on the eastern shore near Lake Superior Provincial Park in Ontario. Since then, she has led 19 Water Walks. The water walkers carry the water from the headwaters to the mouth of the river or lake to pray for the water. “Every step is a prayer to the water spirits.”
MARTHA REDBONE | Martha is a Native & African-American vocalist, songwriter, composer, educator. She is known for her music gumbo of folk, blues and gospel from her childhood in Harlan County, Kentucky infused with the eclectic grit of pre-gentrified Brooklyn. Inheriting the powerful vocal range of her gospel-singing African American father and the resilient spirit of her mother’s Cherokee/Shawnee/Choctaw culture, Redbone broadens the boundaries of American Roots music. With songs and storytelling that share her life experience as an Afro-Indigenous woman and mother navigating in the new millennium, Redbone gives voice to issues of social justice, bridging traditions, connecting cultures, and celebrating the human spirit. Her latest album “The Garden of Love- Songs of William Blake” is “a brilliant collision of cultures” (New Yorker). Redbone is the 2020 Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding Music in a Play and the 2020 Audelco Award winner for Outstanding Musical Composer for Original Music and Score “For Colored Girls…” at the Public Theater, NYC.
TAMMY HAILI’ŌPUA BAKER | Playwright and Director Tammy Haili‘ōpua Baker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa where she is the Director of the Hawaiian Theatre and Playwriting Programs. Her work centers on the development of an Indigenous Hawaiian theatre aesthetic and form, language revitalization, and the empowerment of cultural identity through stage performance. Baker is the artistic director of Ka Hālau Hanakeaka, a Hawaiian medium theatre troupe based on O‘ahu. Originally from Kapa‘a, Kaua‘i she now resides in Kahalu‘u, Ko‘olaupoko, O‘ahu with her ‘ohana.
ABOUT THE CULTURAL EQUITY LEARNING COMMUNITY
The Cultural Equity Learning Community (CELC) is an online learning community open to arts and culture leaders committed to building racial equity in the sector. The CELC includes a go-at-your-own pace two-unit course with complimentary wrap-around learning supports. More info available on: www.culturalequitylc.org
The CELC was launched by Arts Connect International in partnership with: the Anti-Racism Collaborative, ArtsBoston, Creative Generation, Boston Art Review, the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture, The Boston Foundation, MassHumanities, Artists Thrive, an initiative supported by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, the Cambridge Community Foundation, the Cambridge Arts Council, Foley Hoag Foundation and the New England Foundation for the Arts.
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