Performances, Readings, Creative Workshop, Music, Food, and More!

Please join us for an afternoon of performances and readings celebrating Native Visual Sovereignty: A Reader on Art and Performance. This anthology is the first to focus on performance and performativity in contemporary Native art. With 48 contributors, it includes newly commissioned essays, artist notes, reprinted critical texts, and oral history interviews, highlighting the shift from visual to performative sovereignty.

Performance Schedule

12:30 PM — Artist Performance: Erica Lord (Iñupiaq/Athabascan) in Artifact Piece, Revisited

2:00 PM — Readings and Performances: From Native Visual Sovereignty. Artists Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota), Kent Monkman (Cree Member of Fisher River Cree Nation in Treaty 5 Territory [Manitoba]), Jolene Rickard (Skarù·ręʔ/Tuscarora Nation, Hodinöhsö:ni Confederacy), Eric-Paul Riege (Diné) with Candice Hopkins (citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation) and Brandee Caoba.