Expressing Artful Insights about Art Works: Sharing Authority with Children to Curate an Exhibition Depicting their Ancestors and their Home
May 1 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Join in celebrating the final week of “Tell Clyfford I Said ‘Hi’”: An Exhibition Curated by Children of the Colville Confederated Tribes, on display at the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, Colorado. Co-curated with young people (ages 3 to 14) from the Colville Confederated Tribes in Washington State, the exhibition demonstrates both the potential of intergenerational collaboration and its impact on the art world and tribal community. In this episode, we explore how Clyfford Still Museum staff developed a partnership with Colville children and families to curate an exhibition of Clyfford Still’s depictions of their ancestors and their landscape of eastern Washington. We will talk about the ways in which adult “experts” and children can share authority, creating a space for children to express insights, make decisions about which art to display, decide what themes to present, and ultimately create lifelong memories. These memories are now embedded in their experiences, inspiring connections to art, history, awareness, and the development of voice and responsibility.
Turtle Talk is back! We invite Native parents, teachers, and caregivers, along with those working with Native children and families and those interested in the work of raising our Indigenous children, to join us for the third season of Turtle Talk: Collectively Raising Indige-babies, a BTC Family-to-Family Real Talk virtual conversation series!
The series is convened by the Indigenous Early Learning Collaborative (IELC) Institute and is a fun way to engage parents and families in thinking forward about how we collectively raise Indigenous children and babies in a contemporary and fast-growing technological, global, Indigenous society. Turtle talk refers to our animal relatives speaking with one another and with us. The play on Indigenous babies, “Indige-babies” for short, in the title calls us to look just over the horizon and ask ourselves, “What will the world be like for our babies/children and families? How does being raised in this fast-evolving world with the increasing demand of digital, technological, and cultural engagement impact our traditions and approaches to raising our babies?”
