Indigenous Artist to Artist (Part 1): Adapting To Pandemic & Daring to Dream
All My Relations Podcast
Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane
5 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Mid-August every year is usually when Matika and Adrienne head out to New Mexico to get #SantaFancy, visit artist friends, and partake in all of the joy of Santa Fe Indian Market--the largest Native art market in the US. Like everything, Art Market was canceled in person this year, leaving us worried about and missing our artsy relatives. So we decided to launch a mini-series on Native art and artists!
The goal of this series of episodes is two fold. In a world of cultural appropriation and “Native inspired” junk showing up on Instagram ads and in stores, we wanted you to get to know actual Indigenous artists. Folks who have been in the game for a long time, navigating the complicated and careful lines of culture, tradition, innovation, and art. We want you to hear their voices and their stories, know their work and their passion, and learn why its so important to support Native artists directly.
Secondly, the pandemic has hit us all in a lot of different and difficult ways. But when the Native art world is so dependent on in person relationships, this time has meant that things have had to dramatically shift and change in a very short period of time. Many of our artist friends rely on art markets and shows for the majority of their income each year, and all of those have been cancelled.
We wanted to bring these two pieces together, and introduce you to some of our artist friends, as well as check in and hear how their work and lives are moving forward in this new and challenging time.
On this first episode, meet three awesome full time artists--Jewelers and metal smiths Pat Pruitt (Laguna Pueblo and Apache) and Waddie Crazyhorse (Cochiti Pueblo), and painter J. Nicole Hatfield (Comanche).
Follow and support the artists!
- Pat Pruitt: https://www.instagram.com/patpruittmetalsmith/, http://www.patpruitt.com/
- Waddie Crazyhorse: https://www.instagram.com/crazyhorseclassics/, http://www.waddiecrazyhorse.com/
- J. Nicole Hatfield: https://www.instagram.com/jnicolehatfieldart/, https://www.jnicolehatfield.com/
Adrienne’s Catapult story on Kristen Dorsey: https://catapult.co/stories/kristen-dorsey-native-jewelry-designer-fighting-stereotypes-art-adrienne-keene
Santa Fe Indian Market/SWAIA virtual market: https://swaia.org/indian-market/2020-exhibitors/
We Are The Seed Market (Native run market, postponed for 2020):http://www.wearetheseeds.org/about-seeds.html
As always, thank you to Ciara Sana for her amazing episode art, and Teo Elisio, for doing all the things.
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| 0:00.0 | Hiya, I'm Antica Wilbur, co-host of All My Relations with Dr. Keane, Adrian here. Thanks for tuning in. |
| 0:07.3 | Big window to all of you. We love you so much. And this is only possible because you're here. So |
| 0:12.9 | thank you for subscribing and sharing and tuning in. Absolutely. We're so honored to be back here |
| 0:18.4 | with you again. And today and for the next few episodes, we are dedicating space to some of our |
| 0:25.2 | artsy indigenous relatives. We have all been so dramatically impacted by COVID-19. Our |
| 0:31.9 | world has changed in ways that many of us would have never dreamed possible. This pandemic swept |
| 0:37.9 | across the planet and left none of us untouched and we are all doing our best to try to figure out |
| 0:43.0 | how to navigate this challenging time. It's true. Every area of our lives has been impacted by |
| 0:49.0 | the pandemic and all the state home orders. And we've spent so much time worried about our relatives. |
| 0:54.9 | Some of whom have been more impacted than others, but we've definitely been worried. And for those |
| 1:00.1 | worried for those that are sick and suffering, for those that are out of work, |
| 1:03.8 | for those that are mourning losses of loved ones, and for those who aren't safe at home, |
| 1:08.5 | I've also been really worried about our kiddos and those trying to navigate online school and |
| 1:13.1 | those in higher ed. And we want to extend our love and solidarity to all of you. And we really |
| 1:18.4 | want to help our team keeps asking itself, what is the best way to be useful to our relatives? |
| 1:25.8 | What does it mean to be a good relative right now? Of course, there is the upfront work we can all |
| 1:32.1 | do, the social distancing, the mask wearing, the hand washing and sanitizing, till our hands are cracking. |
| 1:42.8 | And we also can be good relatives to the social uprisings happening nationally. |
| 1:47.2 | We can support the Black Lives Matter movement, we can be active citizens and vote, |
| 1:52.3 | we can donate when possible, and we can center racial justice in our lives. |
| 1:57.6 | Absolutely. And since we are storytellers over here at all my relations, we feel as though we |
| 2:03.8 | have a responsibility to tell empowering stories from the heart of Native America. And since we all |
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