From February 27th-March 2nd, Fayetteville’s Center for Art as Lived Experience will host Resounding Sovereign Expressions: Resurgent Indigenuity in Ozark Arts Practice & Scholarship, a gathering of contemporary Indigenous artists, musicians, activists, and scholars taking creative approaches to visualizing collective memories and Indigenous futurities in the land currently known as Northwest Arkansas. The event is free and open to the public. 

The program will start on February 27th at 11am in the Studio + Design Center (SDCR) with an artist talk from Demian DinéYazhi’ (Diné), followed by a workshop at 4:30 pm from Nathan Young (Delaware Tribe of Indians, Pawnee and Kiowa descent) and Warren Realrider (Pawnee, Crow). At 6:30pm there will be opening remarks from Aaron Turner, Elise Boulanger (Osage), and Serena Caffrey followed by a performance at 7pm from Nathan Young  and Warren Realrider.

The program, supported by a $25,000 Terra Foundation Convening Grant, will take place as a series of public round table discussions, artist talks, and musical performances spanning the four day period across two locations: the Studio + Design Center on MLK, Mount Sequoyah’s Parker Hall, and Miller Lodge.

This program aims to recognize strategies ranging from restorative funding and land repatriation to artistic interventions in public space. Conversations will offer pathways toward re-Indigenizing spaces where Native people have been historically removed and erased, as well as understanding the ways rapid gentrification further obscures and reaffirms the settler-colonial histories of that removal. 

For more information and to register please visit: https://art.uark.edu/news-events/resounding.php.