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SUMMARY:Grounded: Creating with Land in Contemporary Native American Art
DESCRIPTION:Can we think of a 21st century Arizona through expressions of place inherent in Arizona’s Indigenous arts? In this presentation\, I focus on the representation of place that Indigenous artists in Arizona are making in their art. From jewelry\, to weaving\, to photography\, the lived landscape features prominently in Indigenous art. These expressions signify place\, culture\, tradition\, and national aspirations. As a Diné jeweler with decades of experience in Native art spaces\, I will demonstrate how the stones and materials connect us to our national homelands in Diné bikeyah and are also a representation of longstanding trade routes between tribes in the southwest. I will show how corn – represented in culture and art – is also a product of trade\, and how Diné rugs are intimately linked to the land\, including the wool and dye that comprise it. These are all examples of placemaking in Native Arizona. Ultimately\, Native space is not limited to today’s boundaries but are expressions of kinship and reciprocity to the land and non-human entities that also inhabit it. Indigenous art in Arizona confounds our understanding of Arizona. Art is not just a reflection of what is there\, but an imagined sense of what is possible. \n \nNanibaa Beck is a 2nd generation Dine’ (Navajo) jeweler. Since 2013\, her work reflects Native creative expressions and the growth of an Dine’ ‘Asdzaa (Navajo woman) as a designer and maker. Being intricately connected to the creative process at an early age motivated Beck to become more knowledgeable about the multifaceted areas surrounding Native American Art. Her anthropology background includes work and fellowships with renowned museums\, including the Heard Museum\, the National Museum of the American Indian\, the Peabody Essex Museum and the Field Museum.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/grounded-creating-with-land-in-contemporary-native-american-art-8/
LOCATION:The Holland Center\, 34250 N 60th Street Bldg B\, Scottsdale\, 85266\, United States
CATEGORIES:AZ Speaks
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SUMMARY:Gathering Points: Cultural Geography on the Colorado Plateau
DESCRIPTION:The Topic \nKinłání & Kingman;\nSedona & Seligman;\nTuba City & Kachina Village;\nWinslow & Williams;\nGlen Canyon & Grand Canyon.\n
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\nFor millennia\, these sites—and many more across the Colorado Plateau—have served as gathering points: physical\, cultural\, and storied. Drawing from the Northern Arizona Book Festival’s literary field guide\, Gathering Points\, Lenhart considers how literature can become a form of cultural geography. With each poem or short prose piece geolocated to an exact latitude and longitude\, the project calls its readers to community. These works trace the shapes of dilapidated houses\, river-bend rescues\, dark-sky trailheads\, sacred mountain silhouettes\, KTNN feed lines\, USPS mail routes\, craggy ash fields\, water-drinking sinkholes\, and the burled bark of ponderosa pines. This talk explores the possibilities—and responsibilities—of writing from place\, and of using creative writing\, GIS mapping\, and creative placemaking to make visible the relationships between landscape and story. \n \nThis program is hosted by Arizona Archeological Society – Little Colorado River Chapter \n \nAbout the Speaker \nLawrence Lenhart is the author of three essay collections\, including The Well-Stocked and Gilded Cage\, Safe Dry and Together\, and Backvalley Ferrets. He wrote\, composed\, and produced the cowpunk fantasia\, Pop Goes the Ferret! With Will Cordeiro\, he is the author of two craft books\, Experimental Writing and New Foundations of Creative Writing\, both from Bloomsbury Academic. Lenhart teaches courses in fiction\, nonfiction\, climate science narrative\, editing and publishing\, and arts entrepreneurship at Northern Arizona University. Lenhart is an editor of DIAGRAM and Executive Director of the Northern Arizona Book Festival.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/gathering-points-cultural-geography-on-the-colorado-plateau/
LOCATION:Springerville Heritage Center\, 418 E. Main Stret\, Springerville\, AZ\, 85938\, United States
CATEGORIES:AZ Speaks
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SUMMARY:(Mother) Road to the Stars: Rt 66 and its Space Heritage
DESCRIPTION:Route 66 is one of the most storied roadways in North America\, known for its roadside diners\, historic hotels and kitschy attractions. But it also boasts an extraordinary space heritage; along its course lies the birthplaces of space pioneers\, centers of space exploration and discovery\, training grounds for Moon-bound astronauts\, the best-preserved asteroid impact site in the world\, site of a famous UFO sighting\, and museums celebrating these cosmic connections. In honor of the upcoming centennial of Route 66\, Lowell Observatory Historian Kevin Schindler will lead a virtual trip along the Mother Road and explore this space heritage.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/mother-road-to-the-stars-rt-66-and-its-space-heritage-12/
LOCATION:Phippen Museum\, 4701 U.S. HWY 89N\, Prescott\, AZ\, 86301\, United States
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SUMMARY:Arizona's Ark of Taste Foods with Chef Amber Sampson
DESCRIPTION:TOPIC \nChef and Cultural Anthropologist Amber Sampson brings you on a journey of taste around Arizona’s heritage food history. Sampson will expand on Arizona’s Ark of Taste\, a living catalog of foods facing extinction\, including the local\, heritage\, and native foods that are unique to Arizona’s food history. Come learn about favorites\, like White Sonora Wheat\, teapry beans\, and Ark of Taste foods like Black Sphinx dates\, cholla buds\, chilitipin pepper\, and more. In learning about Arizona’s food history\, the people\, producers\, communities\, and cultures behind each bite\, you can better support your local food community and create a more sustainable food system. \nThis program is cohosted by Mesa Public Library – Gateway Library Branch\n \nBIO \nAmber Sampson explores the world through food as a trained professional Chef\, who also holds degrees in Cultural Anthropology\, Food Systems Sustainability\, and a Master’s in Gastronomy. She studied food and race at Harvard University\, brought ancient bread to life with fellow Anthropologists from Yale\, and was awarded the prestigious US Government’s Gilman Scholarship for archeological research with Arizona’s O’odham Nations. Sampson’s work brings present-day relevance to ancient meals\, people\, and cultures\, giving others a taste and connection to our delicious past\, revealing a more sustainable and understanding future. She sits on the Board of Directors for Slow Food Phoenix and was the Arizona representative for the Global Food Security Summit in Washington\, D.C.\, and Terra Madre in Italy in 2024. Sampson has worked for Boston University\, S’edav Va’aki Museum\, Arizona State University\, and the Arizona American Indian Tourism Association. Sampson was awarded the Arizona Humanities 50th anniversary climate conversations grant for a documentary on her food research.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/arizonas-ark-of-taste-foods-with-chef-amber-sampson-14/
LOCATION:Mesa Public Library Gateway Branch\, 5036 S Eastmark Parkway\, Mesa\, Arizona\, 85201\, United States
CATEGORIES:AZ Speaks
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SUMMARY:The Essential Emily Dickinson Book Talk: Tell it Slant: An Emily Dickinson Discussion & Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:NEA Big Read programming provides communities with the opportunity to gather\, discuss\, and create in the spirit of a single book/author\, in this case\, The Essential Emily Dickinson. No previous experience with poetry or the works of Emily Dickinson is required. \nTell it Slant: An Emily Dickinson Discussion & Writing Workshop \nIn this talk\, participants will learn about Dickinson’s life\, read/discuss 2-3 iconic (and cryptic) Dickinson poems through the lens of her biography and craft a Dickison-inspired poem of their own.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/the-essential-emily-dickinson-book-talk-tell-it-slant-an-emily-dickinson-discussion-writing-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Burton Barr Central Library\, 1221 N. Central Ave.\, Phoenix\, AZ\, 85004\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Essential Emily Dickinson Book Talk: The Brain within its groove runs evenly: Emily Dickinson & Neurodivergence
DESCRIPTION:NEA Big Read programming provides communities with the opportunity to gather\, discuss\, and create in the spirit of a single book/author\, in this case\, The Essential Emily Dickinson. No previous experience with poetry or the works of Emily Dickinson is required. \nThe Brain within its groove runs evenly: Emily Dickinson & Neurodivergence \nIn this talk\, participants will learn about Dickinson’s potential neurological/psychological conditions\, read/discuss 2-3 poems that center on the brain\, and interpret them through the broad spectrum of neurodiversity (Dickinson’s and ours).
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/the-essential-emily-dickinson-book-talk-the-brain-within-its-groove-runs-evenly-emily-dickinson-neurodivergence/
LOCATION:Burton Barr Central Library\, 1221 N. Central Ave.\, Phoenix\, AZ\, 85004\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Essential Emily Dickinson Book Talk: The Brain within its groove runs evenly: Emily Dickinson & Neurodivergence
DESCRIPTION:NEA Big Read programming provides communities with the opportunity to gather\, discuss\, and create in the spirit of a single book/author\, in this case\, The Essential Emily Dickinson. No previous experience with poetry or the works of Emily Dickinson is required. \nThe Brain within its groove runs evenly: Emily Dickinson & Neurodivergence \nIn this talk\, participants will learn about Dickinson’s potential neurological/psychological conditions\, read/discuss 2-3 poems that center on the brain\, and interpret them through the broad spectrum of neurodiversity (Dickinson’s and ours).
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/the-essential-emily-dickinson-book-talk-the-brain-within-its-groove-runs-evenly-emily-dickinson-neurodivergence-2/
LOCATION:Foothills Public Library\, Glendale\, 19055 N. 57th Ave.\, Glendale\, AZ\, 85308\, United States
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