INterCHANGE Bios and Workshop Descriptions .compressed

Melanie Yazzie
Opening Presentation: From My Perspective: Contemporary Navajo
Artist Melanie Yazzie Shares her Path
Tuesday, June 14, 8:10-8:55am
Presentation Description: Melanie Yazzie is Diné /Navajo of the
Salt Water Clan and Bitter Water Clan of the Diné /Navajo People
of North Eastern Arizona. She will share her process, her travels and her art making in this
lecture. Audience members are encouraged to ask questions and Ms. Yazzie will answer
these questions from her world-view. It will be a time for learning for all.
Workshop: Hand printing with Gelli Plates
Tuesday, June 14, 10:15-12:00pm
Workshop Description: Melanie Yazzie will share working with the unique printmaking
plates and also share how she works with AKUA inks a soy based ink that requires no
solvents for clean up. The mess is cleaned up with diluted dish soap and baby wipes. You
will want to be a part of this workshop! It is only a short introduction but enough will be
covered for each person to go home and know the beginning stages of working this these
materials! What to bring: Bring an apron from home to keep clean!
Bio: As a printmaker, painter, and sculptor, Melanie Yazzie’s work draws upon her rich
Diné (Navajo) cultural heritage. Her work follows the Diné dictum “walk in beauty”
literally, creating beauty and harmony. As an artist, she works to serve as an agent of
change by encouraging others to learn about social, cultural, and political phenomena
shaping the contemporary lives of Native peoples in the United States and beyond.
Ms. Yazzie uses her travels around the world to connect with other indigenous peoples.
Her visits to New Zealand, the Arctic, the Pueblos in the Southwest, and to indigenous
peoples of Russia, these travels have been the impetus for continued dialogue about
Indigenous cultural practices, language, song, story-telling, and survival.
Ms. Yazzie is a professor of printmaking in the Department of Art and Art History at
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA. She considers the global impact in her
work, striving to create safe, non-toxic methods of printmaking where toxic chemicals are
commonly used.
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Theresa (Bambi) Goodwin
Workshop: Hide Painting: A Personal Pictorial History
Workshop Description: Using symbols and thumbnail sketches, we will
produce an individual art piece of our past.
Bio: Bambi Goodwin made her first art sale in just third grade. Growing
up, art was a big part of her life and she always knew she would be an artist. Throughout
her school years she enjoyed working with clay, painting, and graphic arts. She married
and moved to Santa Fe, NM. to study at the Institute of American Indian Art and later
moved back to Minnesota to raise a family. They made a home on the reservation land
where her husband’s grandparents had lived. During this time she studied from the Elders,
learning to illustrate filmstrips, painting, beadwork, and black ash basket making, which
she now is teaching her grandchildren. She taught traditional arts and native language
in the public schools for fifteen years. Currently she works independently in her studio
creating hand built pottery as well as teaching at Leech Lake Tribal College.
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Christine Ballengee-Morris
Keynote: Transformation: Indigenous Art, Pedagogies, and Philosophies
Keynote Description: Exploring contemporary Indigenous art, the
philosophies, and Indigenous Ways of Knowing.
Workshop: eARThworks: Native Ways of Knowing in the Digital Age
Workshop Description: We will explore earthworks through an interactive website and
view their art forms and contemporary pieces by descendants. We will then create
personal responses.
Bio: Christine Ballengee-Morris was the founding director of The Multicultural Center at
OSU. This unit changed how diversity was defined, represented, and supported for and
by students, faculty and community at The Ohio State University. Dr. Ballenge-Morris is a
Professor in the Arts Administration, Education and Policy Department and the American
Indian Studies Coordinator for OSU. She has served as editor for Art Education and
several editorial boards. She teaches art education classes that specialize in diversity
explorations. She is past president of the United States Society for Teaching through
Art. Dr. Ballengee-Morris’s teaching experiences include: fourteen years in the public
school system, twenty years as an artist-in-residence in public schools and five countries,
higher education since 1992, and international teaching. In 2007, she co-authored a book
Interdisciplinary approaches to teaching art in high school (NAEA Publications). Her
research and service to the field demonstrate her commitment to education as an agent
of community change.

LeRoy Saiz
Plenary: Tlacahuapahualiztli Neixtlamachiliztli: The Art of
Strengthening People and the Act of Giving Wisdom to the Face
Presentation Description: While content mastery can still be one
fundamental component in the field of education, many school districts
and communities are beginning to recognize the development of the
whole child. Particularly in the Arts, whole child development and
holistic approaches open pathways for local knowledge systems to influence character of
the content absorbed by students. This session will discuss the application of educational
models from Indigenous communities in North America, with the purpose of understanding
creativity and diversity existing within cyclical thinking skills.
Workshop: In Telpochcaltzintli ihuan Tlilli in Tlapalli: The Home of Warriors and the Red
and Black Ink
Workshop Description: The use of Indigenous Educational Models is essential to the
development of Indigenous students throughout North America. This workshop identifies
how Indigenous philosophy, methods, and practices are applied during afterschool arts
programming in the Jeffco Public Schools – Indian Education Program. Additionally, time
will be spent discussing culturally appropriate avenues for implementation across school
districts and community organizations with diverse populations.
Bio: LeRoy Saiz is an Indigenous scholar (first generation) rising from Albuquerque, New
Mexico. Mr. Saiz rises from the South Valley Neighborhood of Atlixco and identifies as
Genizaro and Xikan@. His scholarly studies in Political Theory earned a B.A. in Political
Science from Metropolitan State University of Denver, and his studies in Critical and
Hemispheric Indigenous Studies earned him a M.A. in Ethnic Studies from Colorado State
University. Mr. Saiz is currently the interim coordinator for the Title VI Indian Education
Program in Jeffco Public Schools and has worked within the field of Indigenous Education
for ten years. His current research goals are focused on Indigenous Educational Research
and the application of Indigenous Educational Models which reference Indigenous
Knowledge practices as the methodological frameworks that develop lifelong scholars
within Indigenous communities.
Deborah Smith-Shank
Workshop: Personal Story, Culture, and the “Other”
Workshop Description: Teachers will use arts-based methods to
examine their cultural stories and conceptual baggage as they
investigate relationships with the known and unknown “Other.” The big
question is “Is it possible to facilitate awareness of one’s own culture
and make connections with the cultures of others without discounting
power and privilege?”
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Deborah Smith-Shank
Bio: Deborah L. Smith-Shank is Professor and Chair of the Department of Arts
Administration, Education and Policy at The Ohio State University. She is Emeritus
Professor of Art at Northern Illinois University and has taught for over 30 years. Her
research is involved with material culture and social justice examined through semiotic
and feminist lenses. She has published and presented her work internationally in venues
including Australia, Northern Ireland, Finland, Portugal, Brazil, Chile, Canada, Croatia,
Slovenia, Turkey, The Netherlands, Belgium, and the United States. Smith-Shank and is
elected Vice President of the Semiotic Society of America and co-editor of the journal
of Visual Culture & Gender, an international, freely accessed, multimedia juried journal
Pat and Gage Kruse
Duane (Dewey) Goodwin
Workshop: Birchbark 101
Workshop Description: Learn how birch bark is integral to Ojibwe
communities, how it has been used across generations, and how to
create various birch bark forms during this workshop.
Bio: Pat Kruse is a birch bark artist who lives in the Mille Lacs community in Minnesota.
He has been working with birch bark for more than 30 years. He uses birch bark “to honor
the old ways and the ancestors that practiced these ways to make the many things which
they used to survive.” Pat and his son and apprentice Gage, participated as the Native
American Artists-in-Residence at Minnesota Historical Society, where they worked with
the historic birch bark collections from the Ojibwe people.
Workshop: Traditional Stone Shaping
Workshop Description: Learn how stone shaping is a mode for
conveying traditional Ojibwe culture while learning to connect to
your own expressions through stonework.
Bio: Dewey Goodwin is an accomplished artist and Art Educator of 41 years experience.
Growing up on the White Earth Reservation founded his earliest inspiration in art. Today
he is presently teaching art at the Leech Lake Tribal College and creating art in his studio.
Goodwin’s artistic creations (sculpture) are of subjects that reflect his passion for his
culture, family, animals and birds of prey. You may find his most publicized (2006) work of
art in Mounds Park across from the ancient Lakota burial grounds in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Over the past years and present Goodwin has completed several new sculptures. His most
recent is a commission from the 2014 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant to
carve four sculptures based on the Red Lake (Phonema) Midewiin Medicine Wheel.
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The Iron Family Dancers
Wendy Oster
Closing Performance: Honoring our Ancestors by Keeping our Traditions
Alive
Performance Description: Several dance styles and songs will be presented
from the Intertribal Powwow. They will provide brief descriptions and
origin stories of the dance styles, regalia, and songs sung. Dancers will
include children and grandchildren who will exhibit the dance styles of
Men’s Southern Straight, Men’s Fancy Bustle, Women’s Fancy Shawl, Women’s Jingle,
Women’s Southern Traditional and “Tiny Tots”. The audience will have a chance to
participate in some social dances as well.
Bio: The Iron Family Dancers and Singers are a Fort Collins family of
three-generations, from the Pawnee, Crow, Navajo, Southern Cheyenne,
Oglala, Kiowa, and Plains Cree (Canada) nations.
Opening Artist Reception: Through the Threshold: A Sacred Space
Artwork Description: Through the Threshold: A Sacred Space is a gallery
experience that invites the viewer to explore the intimate connections
of familial relationships, memories and one’s autobiographical account
of identity through a sense of becoming. Included in the exhibition are
a short pixilation film, photo transfer collages, and an installation of a
table furnished with settings that echo the presence of family members
sharing a meal.
Bio: Wendi K. Oster is a graduate student of the School of Art and Design at UNC. She
currently serves as an art educator at Platte Valley Middle School in in her home town of
Kersey, Colorado. She has been implementing Choice Based art making with her students,
while teaching artistic behaviors (TAB) to encourage accountability and promote
expression of artistic voice. Through her graduate studies, she has been exploring
the internal phenomena of identity as it is reflected through family memories and
perceptions while being aware of the thresholds of time, space, and presence.
Teaching and presenting art for 41 years has enriched Goodwin with a vast range
of teaching experience and public speaking skills. His traditional/contemporary art
knowledge has not only helped develop his teaching techniques but also helped convey
to the public the importance of art. He feels his passion and appreciation for art has made
an impact on the people and the world we live in.

Lisa Rathje
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Opening Presentation: Mapping Culture
Wednesday, June 15, 8:10-8:55am
Presentation Description: What does a map of the INterCHANGE of
traditional and contemporary culture look like? Maps can tell us where
we are and help us plan where we are going next. Maps also share key
information about a particular place. Going beyond physical structures
and landmarks of a community, this presentation looks to creating a greater awareness of
how cultural knowledge, lived-experiences, and even invisible spaces can come to life in
map making. The creative possibilities found in a mapping research process will provide
entrée to a host of rich topics for discussion. Participants will also engage in a brief
mapping exercise to start day two of the INterCHANGE Leadership Institute.
Workshop: The Art of Culture: A Local Perspective
Wednesday, June 15, 11:15-12:00pm
Workshop Description: Folk or Traditional Arts may be found in every community. Study
of traditional arts and their creators contributes not only to students’ understanding of
culture and community, but also to their ability to think critically, gather and analyze
evidence, and express their ideas and interpretations through personal creativity. Folk
arts are uniquely suited to explore how traditional art forms reflect the history, aesthetics,
geography, and values of different cultures and communities. This workshop will walk
participants through a sequence of discovery and representation to explore the art of
culture. Time for reflection is included and it will particularly focus upon critical questions
of power and identity relative to creative acts of representation.
Bio: Dr. Lisa Rathje is Assistant Director of Local Learning: The National Network for Folk
Arts in Education. She consults nationally specializing in professional development for
educators and teaching artists, as well as the topics of cultural documentation, public
programming, non-profit planning, and applying cultural knowledge in social justice
efforts. She also teaches courses on research methods and non-profit and community
partnerships in the Goucher College Masters in Cultural Sustainability program. She is
Co-editor of the Journal of Folklore and Education, and has directed in- and out- of school
programs with high school students, written curricula for diverse learning environments,
and served on the National Service Learning Leader Schools peer review board,
Washington, D.C. Rathje has led presentations and workshops for educators on Folklife
and Education for the Center for Schools and Communities conference, the Institute for
Community Research Crossroads conference, and Community Works Institute on Service
Learning.
WEDNESDAY June 15
Presenters Profiles and Workshop Desccriptions

Theresa (Bambi) Goodwin
Workshop: Hide Painting: A Personal Pictorial History
Workshop Description: Using symbols and thumbnail sketches, we
will produce an individual art piece of our past.
Bio: Bambi Goodwin made her first art sale in just third grade.
Growing up, art was a big part of her life and she always knew she
would be an artist. Throughout her school years she enjoyed working with clay, painting,
and graphic arts. She married and moved to Santa Fe, NM. to study at the Institute of
American Indian Art and later moved back to Minnesota to raise a family. They made a
home on the reservation land where her husband’s grandparents had lived. During this
time she studied from the Elders, learning to illustrate filmstrips, painting, beadwork,
and black ash basket making, which she now is teaching her grandchildren. She taught
traditional arts and native language in the public schools for fifteen years. Currently
she works independently in her studio creating hand built pottery as well as teaching at
Leech Lake Tribal College.
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Gregg Deal
Keynote: Art and Decolonization
Keynote Description: Gregg Deal will touch on his own experience
as an indigenous artist and activist, and his use of art as a tool of
decolonization. Thinking critically about the spaces we occupy, and
how we can better understand others through understanding history,
and how change can be enacted by using mediums traditionally not associated with
social, political and even cultural change.
Workshop: Alternative Ways of Engaging Cultural Relationships
Workshop Description: The use of imagery, dialog and humor to bridge understanding
relationships on a social, political and cultural level. This workshop will work on finding
ways to engage those who are different than us, finding commonality and the use of
patience and empathy to create change in both parties. Gregg Deal will use his art, and
much of the humor that is used in his work to push participants to think critically about
communication, and in enacting change in our communities.
Bio: Gregg Deal is a husband, a father, an artist and a member of the Paiute Tribe of
Pyramid Lake. As a provocative contemporary artist/activist, much of Gregg’s work
deals with indigenous identity and pop culture, touching on issues of race relations,
historical consideration, and stereotype. Within this work—including paintings, mural
work, and print work—Gregg critically examines issues within Indian country such as
decolonization, the mascot issue (local and across the US), and appropriation. He has
recently finished as Native Arts Artist-in-Residence at the Denver Art Museum.

India Harville
Workshop: Inclusive Design in Dance and the Arts: The Power of Accessible
Spaces
Workshop Description: What is disabled identity? How would society’s
conceptualization of disability shift if more spaces followed universal
design principles? How can we create curricula that foster accessibility
and inclusivity? How can we create inclusive dance/art that offers multiple
levels of difficulty? If you identify as able bodied how can you become aware of ableism
and begin to dismantle it in your self and in your world? If you identify as disabled how
would your life change if you were given access to the same choices as everyone else?
These are some of the questions we will explore in this interactive accessible movement
based workshop.
Bio: India Harville is an African American queer, disabled femme teacher, somatic
bodyworker, dancer/dance instructor, performance artist, social justice activist, and
educator dedicated to facilitating people in personal and collective healing and
transformation. India has over 17 years of experience in the fields of embodiment via
massage, somatics, and dance. India is trained in several massage/somatic modalities
including Swedish, Deep Tissue, Neuromuscular Therapy, Shiatsu, Thai, and Rosen Method
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Armando Silva
Workshop: From the Heart
Workshop Description: Using the heart as a platform to explore our
passions, and purpose, join ARTMANDO as he helps us take inspiration
from our own life experiences and goals to create. We will focus on
textures, patterns, symbols and color schemes to create our own
depiction of what it is to share our love for through the symbol of life:
the heart.
Bio: I, Armando Silva was born in Sombrerete, Zacatecas, Mexico. My family moved to
the Northern Colorado area in search of the American Dream when I was just five. I
quickly became familiar with pop culture in America. Everything from Michael Jackson
to current cartoons. I submerged myself in the visual and performing arts behind closed
doors. As I grew up and became more comfortable with my talents I decided to invest in
them and got my BA in Fine Arts from The University of Northern Colorado. Since then,
I have used my artistic platform to pursue my passion and purpose. I believe with my
artistic powers I have a responsibility within my community to lead, educate and give
back. I paint portraits to help tell stories, sometimes in my studio or on stages in front
of thousands. As a creative, I look for opportunities to present my artwork in order to
paint a bigger picture. My intuition is to find the greens in a red rose and the blues in
an orange. Every brush stroke has a rhythm and every color has its voice. Pursue your
PASSION and PURPOSE and put it to ACTION. #ARTMANDO AS SEEN AT/ ON / IN: Red
Rocks Amphitheater, Denver Center for The Performing Arts, PBS, TEDX, Vail International
Dance Festival, University of Northern Colorado, Colorado State University, Colorado
University, Arca Mex., COIN Summit.

India Harvell
Emily Odiwuor
Bodywork. India has studied several forms of dance including NIA, Zumba, KiVo, Dancing
Freedom, DanceAbility, and American DanceWheels wheelchair ballroom dance. India
has over 15 years teaching experience.
India’s eclectic toolkit makes her very adept in helping people deepen their connection to
themselves and to helping people find more pleasure and ease in their lives. India holds
a BA in health psychology from New College of Florida and a MA in Integrative Medicine
from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). She has received many awards/
fellowships including the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship Award to conduct research
on the body’s response to stress in Dusseldorf Germany, three scholarships/residencies
to study/teach/perform mixed abilities dance, including one with Sins Invalid in Berkeley
California, and has conducted research in multiple locations.
Workshop: Supporting and Empowering Refugee and Immigrant Communities
Workshop Description: In 2008, five members of the East African community saw the need
to build more bridges between the refugee/immigrant communities and the broader
Greeley community. Since then, the Global Refugee Center (GRC) has been doing just
that. In short, the organization gives newcomers the tools they need to thrive in their new
home, and advocate on their behalf in the larger community.
This session will broadly address issues that bring refugees to Weld County and issues
they currently face in the United States - and how a small refugee founded organization is
empowering newcomers to thrive in their new environment.
Bio: Emily Odiwuor has worked with refugees, asylees and immigrants through an
organization called the Global Refugee Center for 6 years in many different capacities.
She graduated from Colorado State University in 2009 with a Bachelor’s in Public
Relations and Spanish. She holds a Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
(TESOL) certificate and has taught all levels of ESL with the Global Refugee Center.
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Mark Hudson
Workshop: The Classical Period in Music as Fulcrum
Workshop Description: The word “classic” in Webster is defined as
serving as “a standard of excellence: of recognized value”. The term
“classical” is defined as “of a kind that has long been considered
great”. Although it is the shortest period in historical music styles, it
is by far the most influential. Some 800 years in the making as well as in the nearly 200
years since, the Classical Period is widely viewed as the standard by which all music is
measured, including our modern popular music. What was of such significance that this
brief period became the fulcrum, the “pivotal axis” of tradition in music? How does/
should this influential system of standards affect music and music education today? How
can we connect culture of today to that of 200 years ago, or should we even try? Is this
period even relevant today?

Mohamed Muhamed
Workshop: From Global to Local: Integrating the Refugee Experience
at UNC
Workshop Description: This workshop will offer the chance to hear
the personal story of Mohamed Muhumed.
Bio: My name is Mohamed Muhumed Jr. I came to this country at the
age of 3, lived in Aurora all my life except the past year or so since I
have been here in Greeley attending UNC! I am double majoring in
sociology and criminal justice and am currently working at the Global
Refugee Center.
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Mark Hudson
Bio: Dr. Mark Hudson has been in various roles in arts education for nearly 35 years,
20 of those years as a university professor in music education as well as department
chair. Regularly active in service to public school education, he is a member of the Arts
Legislation Coalition Implementation Task Force (Colorado House Bill 1273-Arts for
Workforce Development) and a long-standing member of the National Association for
Music Education.
Dr. Hudson is a founding member of the Colorado Arts Education Coalition, an alliance
of all state arts education organizations in Music, Dance, Theatre, and Visual Arts. In
addition, he regularly assists schools as a consultant in developing arts integration plans.
Appointed by the Governor of Colorado to the State High School Graduation Guidelines
Development Council, Dr. Hudson is an active advocate for the arts in education, serving
on the Colorado Academic Standards Music Review Subcommittee, the Colorado Content
Collaborative in Music, and the Music Curriculum Development Task. He also served as a
reviewer for the new National Standards in Music.
Dr. Hudson served as lead music assessment researcher for the Colorado Department of
Education (CDE), and continues to provide assistance in developing arts assessments as
well as sample curricula in music. In addition, he has twice presented at the International
Symposium on Assessment in Music Education, and recently accepted an invitation to
serve as co-author of a chapter in a new Oxford University Press publication, The Oxford
Handbook of Assessment Policy and Practice in Music Education.
An active researcher in music curriculum development and student assessment in music,
Dr. Hudson currently serves as Immediate Past-President of the Colorado Music Educators
Association.

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John Lukavic
Workshop: Embedded in the Arts: Exploring Culture and Social Issues
Through Historical and Contemporary Native Arts
Workshop Description: From historical arts to those created today,
American Indian artists draw inspiration from their cultures and
issues affecting a broader society. A close look at material choices,
styles and subject matter can provide a window into what an artist
finds meaningful in the world around them. This workshop will
include group discussions on how to use art to better understand
issues such as tradition, identity, and power.
Bio: As associate curator of Native Arts at the Denver Art Museum, John Lukavic
conducts and presents scholarly research, develops exhibitions, collects Native arts, and
disseminates knowledge of the DAM’s American Indian, African, and Oceanic collections.
Lukavic is also responsible for DAM’s collaboration with Native American communities
and the implementation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
(NAGPRA). Since arriving at DAM, Lukavic has curated exhibitions and gallery rotations
of American Indian art, including Super Indian: Fritz Scholder, 1967—1980 (2015), Revolt
1680/2180: Virgil Ortiz (2015), Sovereign: Independent Voices (2013) and a Hopi art
addition to the exhibition Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and
the Land (2013). Lukavic received his doctorate in Cultural Anthropology at the University
of Oklahoma (OU).
Workshop: Traditional Stone Shaping
Workshop Description: Learn how stone shaping is a mode for
conveying traditional Ojibwe culture while learning to connect
to your own expressions through stonework.
Bio: Dewey Goodwin is an accomplished artist and Art Educator of 41 years experience.
Growing up on the White Earth Reservation founded his earliest inspiration in art. Today
he is presently teaching art at the Leech Lake Tribal College and creating art in his studio.
Goodwin’s artistic creations (sculpture) are of subjects that reflect his passion for his
culture, family, animals and birds of prey. You may find his most publicized (2006) work of
art in Mounds Park across from the ancient Lakota burial grounds in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Over the past years and present Goodwin has completed several new sculptures. His most
recent is a commission from the 2014 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant to
carve four sculptures based on the Red Lake (Phonema) Midewiin Medicine Wheel.
Teaching and presenting art for 41 years has enriched Goodwin with a vast range
of teaching experience and public speaking skills. His traditional/contemporary art
knowledge has not only helped develop his teaching techniques but also helped convey
to the public the importance of art. He feels his passion and appreciation for art has
made an impact on the people and the world we live in.

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Deeksha Nagar
Workshop: Understanding Folklore Through Foodways
Workshop Description: When it comes to the discipline of folklore, most
people think of folk dances or fairy tales, but the discipline of folklore is
much more complex and deep. Foodways is an integral part of folklore
that examines how the process of growing, cooking, and sharing food
brings communities together. Every aspect of foodways transcends
the borders of space and time by uniting the opposing elements of
tradition and change. Food brings people from different class, caste, backgrounds and
generations together to create and share meals and artistic expressions that are deeply
rooted in history, geography and religious beliefs. And in our contemporary society, food
has become one of the windows to the world. A new language through which people
communicate and define their culture and dissipate existing stereotypes. It is an amazing
resource for human beings to learn about each other’s life, lore, struggles and beliefs.
In this workshop participants will explore the concept of folklore and folk-art through
foodways. They will learn how foodways can serve as a powerful tool for learning,
teaching and creating culture—both in the classroom and outside of the classroom.
Bio: Deeksha Nagar is an ethnographer and a folklorist with extensive experience in
the field of community education, public programming and multiculturalism. She has
worked as the curator of Education at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures at Indiana
University and taught at University of Northern Colorado’s Urban Education and Rural
Education Access Programs. Currently Deeksha is serving as the board member of CO-
Lead International, an organization dedicated to excellence in international education.
She is also actively engaged in literary and cultural projects in India and in the United
States that are innovative, collaborative, and are rooted in participatory models of
research and activism.
Pat and Gage Kruse
Workshop: Birchbark 101
Workshop Description: Learn how birch bark is integral to Ojibwe
communities, how it has been used across generations, and how to
create various birch bark forms during this workshop.
Bio: Pat Kruse is a birch bark artist who lives in the Mille Lacs community in Minnesota.
He has been working with birch bark for more than 30 years. He uses birch bark “to honor
the old ways and the ancestors that practiced these ways to make the many things which
they used to survive.” Pat and his son and apprentice Gage, participated as the Native
American Artists-in-Residence at Minnesota Historical Society, where they worked with
the historic birch bark collections from the Ojibwe people.

Ramona Beltrán
Workshop: It is Medicine: Exploring Indigenous Storywork and
Creative Expression in Healing Historical Trauma
Workshop Description: This workshop will introduce participants
to the concepts of Indigenous storywork and historical trauma.
Through examples and hands-on exercises, we will explore the role
of storywork and creative expression in healing from legacies of
historical trauma. Together, we will emphasize storywork skills for
classrooms and community-based settings.
Closing Performance: Aztec Dance Presentation - Honoring Our Ancestors
Bio: Ramona Beltrán, MSW, PhD is a Xicana of Yaqui descent dancer/activist/scholar.
As an Assistant Professor at the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work,
her scholarship is committed to interrupting legacies of historical trauma that affect
indigenous communities. She focuses on disrupting the problem-focused approach to
understanding indigenous health and well being that is profuse in mainstream research
through centering culture, resilience, resistance, healing and arts-based and storytelling
methods in collaborative knowledge production with and for indigenous communities.
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