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Art & Design
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The connection between Sierra’s birchbark pyrography and Hawk’s flute is the result of a lifetime spent creating alongside one another.
Participating in events like the Living Traditions Festival is an opportunity to honor her commitment to preserving this once at-risk art form.
As a Native Hawaiian, I’ve noticed that Micronesian culture is often disregarded by the public. And honestly? It’s our loss.
Around 20,000 Karen people and other refugees from Burma now live in Minnesota, the largest community of Karen people in the United States.
Muralist Evelyn Morán Cojoc’s work explores themes of regeneration and connection to place.
The artisans create work that is not just handcrafted and rooted in cultural tradition but also distinctively modern in its aesthetic.
Art director Josué Castilleja begins designing program logos each fall, nearly a year in advance.
For Indigenous artists like McGilton, ancestral knowledge can only be maintained with the intention to uphold and use it within Indigenous communities.
For the Pataxó people, body painting reflects the lived constellations of past and present and of human and more-than-human worlds.
By the time Boxley was born, Tsimshian traditions involving song, art, dance, and regalia had been outlawed or almost forgotten for nearly a century.
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