What does contemporary Native art/culture have to offer others?

How do we exemplify the changes we want to see in our communities, and how does our artwork create potential for change? 

How do we welcome people into our shared communities as allies and partners? 

Join Dr. Meranda Roberts and artists Gina Herrera (Tesuque Pueblo), Jason Wesaw (Pokagon Band Potawatomi), Ernest M Whiteman III (Northern Arapaho), and Joseph Lefthand as they discuss the motivations behind their practices and the many ways their art is found in conversation with others.

Joseph Lefthand (Cheyenne-Arapaho, Taos, and Zuni tribes) [US Marine Corps veteran] is an artist, administrator, and cultural advocate based in Chicago. Lefthand works at the intersection of art and social practice, exploring embodied movement, “performance-as-theory,” and communal inquiry. Lefthand’s experience as a healer, advocate, investigator, and scholar informs his continual dialogue with the cultural and historical implications of war, militarism, violence, and resistance.

Meranda Roberts is an enrolled member of the Yerington Paiute Tribe in Nevada, as well as Chicana. In 2018, she earned her PhD from the University of California – Riverside in Native American History. She has worked as a co-curator at the Field Museum of Natural History, where she developed content for the renovation of the museum’s seventy-year-old Native American exhibition hall, now titled Native Truths: Our Stories. Our Voices. She is also the co-host for the award-winning podcast Exhibiting Kinship and is currently an Independent Museum Consultant.

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