Oxy Arts and the Media Arts & Culture Department present an evening of screening and conversation with Fox Maxy (Payómkawichum and Mesa Grande Band of Mission Indians), who is a filmmaker based in San Diego, CA. Her first feature length film, Gush, premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2023. For 2022-2024, she is a Vera List Center Borderlands Fellow.…
Occidental's Community Book Program Presents: Responsibility and Reciprocal Relationships with the Land: Indigenous Knowledge, Conservation, and Land Return. Join Oxy Professor of Biology Gretchen North, Celestina Castillo, Executive Director of the Center for Community Based Learning, artist and scientist Samantha Morales Johnson, Tina Calderon, Tongva Language Committee member, Bryce Lewis-Smith, Research Assistant at UW’s Center…
Join us for an educational presentation and discussion with Craig Torres in which attendees will examine their relationship to the natural environment. Craig Torres (Tongva) descended from the Indigenous communities of the Yaavetum (Los Angeles) and Komiikravetam (Santa Monica Canyon) that existed in the Los Angeles Basin. The descendants are more commonly known today, collectively as the Tongva…
Teaching artist Lazaro Arvizu will discuss and display steatite stonework of the Gabrielino/Tongva people during a lesson on Native California lifeways. Then, carve and decorate a soapstone amulet that you can wear home. All materials will be provided. Found throughout the region of Southern California, soapstone (also known as steatite or soaprock) is a softer rock that…
Mercedes Dorame's exhibition, "Where Sky Touches Water” brings together a collection of new and recent work, combining photography and sculpture to explore the profound beauty of our natural world. Dorame's lens captures the vibrant tapestry of our Native ecology and its elusive peripheries, inviting reflection on the delicate balance between the familiar and what lies…
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