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The Crossing Releases New Film OBLIGATIONS This is composer Paul Fowler's fourth work written for The Crossing.by BWW News Desk GRAMMY-winning new-music choir The Crossing, led by Donald Nally, today releases a new 13-minute film Obligations, recorded at home by the artists in isolation. In-house sound designer Paul Vazquez worked with composer Paul Fowler to overlay over 300 sound files and text by Oglala Lakota poet Layli Long Soldier to bring to life Fowler's chamber-like, transparent score for 24 individual voices. Obligations completes a trilogy of pandemic-time collaborations with film...

By Diane Patrick and Calvin Reid | May 14, 2021 The power of literature to address the history of the oppression of Indigenous peoples in North America and chart their futures has never been more important. As the U.S. experiences a wave of popular concern about social justice issues, publishers are really just beginning to embrace a growing number of works on such topics as ancestral domains and land rights of Indigenous communities; preservation of their languages, traditions, rituals, and cultural knowledge; and, just as important, the reimagining of their lives through th...

The University of South Dakota Art Galleries announced the 2021 Northern Plains Indian Artist in Residence (NPIAR) to be USD alumna Reyna Hernandez, member of Yankton Sioux tribe.  The NPIAR is part of the USD Contemporary Native Arts Program. The NPIAR program supports emerging and mid-career Native artists with integrating new media and technologies with traditional Native arts practices, history and culture.  The NPIAR program compensates the artists for their time and research which is really important Hernandez said.  Hernandez’s residency will involve a collaboration with her mom, ...

Share this article Share this article DENVER, April 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Denver Art Museum (DAM) will reopen its expanded and reimagined campus to the public with a free general admission day on October 24, 2021, unveiling all eight levels of its iconic Gio Ponti- designed Lanny and Sharon Martin Building (formerly referred to as the North or Ponti Building), which originally opened to the public 50 years ago, and the new Anna and John J. Sie Welcome Center. Part of an overall campus reunification and building renovation project designed by Machado Silvetti and Fentress Architects, th...

Smith College lands poet laureate Joy Harjo as commencement speaker Joy Harjo PHOTO BY MATIKA WILBUR FILE - U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo speaks at the Governors Awards on Oct. 27, 2019, in Los Angeles. Harjo will serve a third 1-year term and has launched an online project that celebrates Native American poets around the country. Her re-appointment was announced Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, by the Library of Congress, and her new term begins in September. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File) AP PHOTO—Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP Published: 2/19/2021 5:28:51 PM NORTHAMPTON — Joy Harjo, th...