Native America Calling: The unique intersection of Black and Indigenous artwork

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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

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The unique intersection of Black and Indigenous artwork/sub] There’s a richness when Black and Indigenous cultures meet.

But there’s also some exclusion arising from outside expectations that someone needs to be one or the other. Artists who have a foot in more than one culture have a creative way of expressing that blended identity and the joys and drawbacks of a shared, but separate history.

Join Native America Calling to hear from artists who draw from two or more prominent cultural sources.

Guests on Native America Calling

Paige Pettibon (Bitterroot Salish, Black, and white), visual artist and jewelry maker @plain_to_sea

Monica Rickert-Bolter (Prairie Band Potawatomi), visual artist and director of operations at the Center for Native Futures

Mikailah Thompson (Nimiipuu), owner of Beadwork by Mikailah and Indigenous Creative, LLC

Kameron White (Choctaw and Cherokee), comic book artist and illustrator