Last month, three members of the History of Art & Visual Studies Department participated on a panel at the Native American Art Studies Association (NAASA) Conference in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Nova Scotia (October 11-13, 2023). The session, titled "Art as Agents for Political Change," was organized by PhD Student Noah Mapes, who presented a paper along with Professor Jolene Rickard, and PhD Student Leonardo Santamaría-Montero. The panel also featured filmmaker Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, who screened her recent film Kanatenhs - When the Pine Needles Fall (2022). In this session, Professor Rickard shared her work curating the exhibition Deskaheh in Geneva 1923-2023: Defending Haudenosaunee Sovereignty (Geneva, 2023). Doctoral students Mapes and Santamaría-Montero presented papers based on their research work from the seminar "Decolonial Poetics and Aesthetics: Arts of Resistance in the Americas," taught in the fall of 2022 by Professors Jolene Rickard and Ananda Cohen-Aponte.
NAASA 2023 Kjipuktuk/Halifax Conference Program: https://nativearts.org/2023/10/08/naasa-2023-kjipuktuk-halifax-conference-program/
Kanatenhs - When the Pine Needles Fall: https://vimeo.com/843700530
Deskaheh in Geneva 1923-2023: Defending Haudenosaunee Sovereignty: https://deskaheh.org/
Decolonial Poetics and Aesthetics: Arts of Resistance in the Americas (Fall 2022): https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/FA22/class/ARTH/6556
