Wednesday, 29 March 2023, 1:00-2:30PM EDT / 12:00-1:30PM CDT / 11:00AM-12:30PM MDT / 10:00-11:30AM PDT / 11:00AM-12:30PM CST / 2:00-3:30PM GMT
Held in anticipation of the 22nd Session of the International Forum on Indigenous People’s Issues (New York, 17 – 28 April 2023), this International Center for MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma webinar recognizes that the arts are both central to indigenous people’s identities and integral to their authentic expression. Four indigenous artists from the Americas will discuss the meanings of their own visual art as conveying their multigenerational traumas and resilience, maintaining and promoting indigenous (traditional) cultures and activism, and enhancing healing and wellbeing.
Speakers:
Daiara Hori Figueroa Sampaio-Duhigô
Of the Tukano indigenous people – Yé’pá Mahsã, Eremiri Húusiro Parameri clan of the Upper Rio Negro in the Brazilian Amazon, Daiara was born in São Paulo and lives in Brasilia, DF. An artist, activist, educator and communicator, having earned a degree in Visual Arts and a Masters in Human Rights from the University of Brasília – UnB, she researches the right to memory and truth of indigenous peoples. Coordinator of Rádio Yandê: www.radioyande.com (the first indigenous web-radio in Brazil) from 2015 to 2021, she won the 2021 PIPA Online Award.
Nicolás de Jesús
Born on 6 December 1960, Nicolas is an artist from the Nahua region of Guerrero, Mexico. His work carries themes of Mexican rural life as well as politics and world events. The celebration of Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a common subject in his art.
A Mexican Artist for Global Justice
Credits
Filmaker: Armando Crado
The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York
https://vimeo.com/768971063?embedded=true&source=video_title&owner=3933932
Redwing Ted Nez
Born in 1960 and raised on the Navajo reservation in northern Arizona, Redwing trained as a traditional sand painter with his paternal grandfather and later attended the University of Northern Arizona. Redwing is an artist with a wide range of skills that include traditional painting, murals and illustrations. He is also a conservationist and a sometime actor.
Owisokon Lahache
“Intergenerational trauma plagued my childhood, stifled my gifts and kept me down until I found indigenous healers to help guide me through my healing processes to be free, to own my space, to create art to honor the ties I have to my ancestors. I share my Iroquois history and culture through various art mediums, and to express the pride I choose to carry and share being Indigenous.”
Moderator:
Dr. Yael Danieli, Founder and Executive Director, International Center for the study, prevention and treatment of MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma; Director, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children; Past-President, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
