The nonprofit industrial complex in the US has failed artists.
Rocío Aranda-Alvarado and Lane Harwell of the Ford Foundation’s Creativity and Free Expression team suggest nine ways to change that.
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You know how Harvard’s Peabody museum announced that they have hair samples taken from native children in collections? Well I was at Harvard for an artist residency at their ArtLab a month before they announced that and found out my great grandmother’s hair in that collection
Community organizer and artist @eringenia (former @masscultural outreach coordinator, focusing on Native American and Indigenous peoples) shares her Cultural Emergency Response framework and how it's informed her artistic practice and civic work. https://t.co/1bJBnFos5h
Community organizer and artist @eringenia (former @masscultural outreach coordinator, focusing on Native American and Indigenous peoples) shares her Cultural Emergency Response framework and how it's informed her artistic practice and civic work. https://t.co/1bJBnFos5h
📷 “The clay vessels begin to speak,” is how multimedia artist @eringenia SM ’19 describes her Dakota-inspired art exhibit with vessels that project sound. https://t.co/vk3Et3JmzS
Yesterday, ATL police took the life of a forest defender Tortuguita “Tort” who was protecting the Weelaunee Forest from becoming a major police training facility or “Cop City.” Tort’s legacy will live on, may they rest in power. #StopCopCity
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Happy Native American Heritage Month! Each day, @Interior is prioritizing Indigenous Knowledge, working to revitalize Native languages, empowering communities through co-stewardship policies, and strengthening our nation-to-nation relationships.
The dishonesty is not only shocking, it is a completely unnecessary betrayal by those whose intent may otherwise be to do good work, writes Natan Obed, who says we must adopt policies that require proof of Indigenous status and end self-identification.
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Artists are often told that teaching is a pathway to a stable career. But that requires an MFA, which can put students in six-figure debt. For Black women, the system is disproportionately damaging.
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Artist, educator, and organizer @eringenia explores a deep-seated barrier to Native American and Indigenous artists getting support to do their work: How are arts and culture defined, and who gets to decide? https://t.co/bOyhUYUJ65