Join us on Wednesday November 12th at 5:00PM at the Reem-Kayden Center, Bito Auditorium for a memory bead necklace making session and discussion about the ways in which Indigenous makers imbue memory and heart into cultural materials and artworks with Dr. Royce K. Young Wolf.
Titled, Bearing Witness: Imbued Memories, Heart, and Animacy in Indigenous Art, attendees will explore Indigenous artistic and cultural works that were created as intentional multilayered mnemonic devices, becoming representational extensions of the artist’s own knowledge, culture, values, and love.
Dr. Royce K. Young Wolf is a Hidatsa, Mandan, and Eastern Shoshone mother, language and culture activist, independent curator, and artist. She is a member of the Ih-dhi-shu-gah (Wide Ridge) Clan and is a child of the Ah-puh-gah-whi-gah (Low Cap) Clan, and an Apsáalooke (Crow) and Nʉmʉnʉʉ (Comanche), Swampy Cree, and Scottish descendant. She is a recipient of the Cobell Scholarship, the Plains Anthropological Society Native American Student Research Award, the University of Oklahoma Social Sciences Graduate Student Research Award, and the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Native American art and curation at Yale University. Dr. Young Wolf was a member of the United Nations Global Indigenous Languages Caucus and was the inaugural Assistant Curator of Native American and Indigenous Arts at the Yale University Art Gallery. Her Ph.D. is in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology focused on Indigenous rights and relationship (re)making.