I Heard the Song of My Grandmother: Art and Indigenous Feminisms

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Saturday January 29

10:00 AM  –  2:00 PM

Join us for a gathering with artists, writers, and curators to consider how activist art continues to subvert stereotypes and advance rights for Indigenous women. Participants include Dr. Anya Montiel, curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian; Dr. Nancy Marie Mithlo, Professor, Department of Gender Studies at UCLA, Los Angeles; Kristen Dorsey, doctoral student, Department of Gender Studies at UCLA; and Las Vegas-based artist Fawn Douglas. Film screening of Purple Flower Girlproduced and directed by Tsanavi Spoonhunter. 

This event is presented in-person and on Zoom.

Paid registration includes live in-person access to the symposium, hosted on the fourth floor Nightingale Sky Room. Paid registration also includes morning coffee/tea and lunch.

You may also access the symposium for free on Zoom. Click here to register in advance for virtual access.

*Scholarships available. Click here to apply for a scholarship, or contact claire.munoz@nevadaart.org for more information.