Homescapes: Native American Land Art, with Alicia Harris, 10/3

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The Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, in coordination with the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, CHAT, RCD, TUAG, and the Toupin Bowell Fund, invite you to a special presentation by Alicia Harris from the University of Oklahoma, on October 3 in Barnum Hall.

For her lecture, Homescapes: Native American Land Art, Alicia Harris (Assiniboine) will present a study of American Indian and First Nations interventions in place. Indigenous North Americans have long made visual forms that demonstrate and provide for the practice of kinship connections with land. Mainstream art historical discourse about “Land Art” routinely omits Indigenous connections with land and place, focusing primarily instead on the work of mid-20th-century white men whose framing of land erased millennia-long Indigenous cultural practices, beliefs, and rootedness to place. Harris aims to create a more holistic narrative of land art in North America through an analysis of both ancestral and currently living Native artists and their work and an examination of histories of land possession and dispossession. Lecture attendees will learn about Native artists, communities, and history with the intent to demonstrate that environmental art and place-making are Indigenous practices in North America.

All are welcome. For questions contact: lilian.mengesha@tufts.edu.