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SUMMARY:Aabijijiwan / Ukeyat yanalleh Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:Join us Thursday\, October 12th for the opening reception of
  Aabijijiwan / Ukeyat yanalleh\, a collaborative exhibition from artists
  Karen Goulet (Ojibwe) and Monique Verdin (Houma). Karen and Monique are
  sisters of the same river\, connected by the planetary lifeforce known 
 as the Misi-ziibi (Big River\, Ojibwe) near the headwaters in the north 
 and remembered as Misha sipokni (Older than Time\, Chata) in the coastal
  territories of the southern Delta\, where the bayous of Turtle Island m
 eet the sea.\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n6-8pm\; All My Relations Arts\; Food and drin
 k will be provided.\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nAbout the artists: \n\nKaren E. Goule
 t is a White Earth Ojibwe Band member and is also from Metis\, and Finni
 sh people. She is a practicing artist\, poet\, educator and community sc
 ulptor. She is the Miikanan Gallery Program Director at  Watermark Art 
 Center in Bemidji\, Minnesota.  Karen received her BA from The Evergree
 n State College\, MFA in Sculpture from The University of Wisconsin – 
 Madison\, and MEd from University of Minnesota Duluth. She is a recent r
 ecipient of Minnesota State Arts Board Grants\, Waterers Fellowship\, an
 d Region 2 Arts Council Anishinaabe Arts Fellowship. She was a pilot art
 ist for the Big River Continuum Project. Her work centers around communi
 ty\, environment\, and perpetuating culture. Her life path has always be
 en a creative path and she has dedicated her professional and personal l
 ife to making\, sharing\, and encouraging artistic practice.\n\n&nbsp\;\
 n\nMonique Verdin is a transdisciplinary storyteller\, citizen of the Ho
 uma Nation and director of The Land Memory Bank &amp\; Seed Exchange\, r
 esponding to the complex interconnectedness of environment\, economics\,
  culture\, climate\, and change in the Gulf South. Monique is currently 
 working to support the Okla Hina Ikhish Holo\, a network of Indigenous s
 outheastern gardeners\, to grow food and medicine sovereignty in the low
 er Mississippi River Delta and is a Bvlbancha Liberation Radio collabora
 tor. Monique is co-producer/subject of the documentary My Louisiana Love
  and co-author of Return to Yakni Chitto : Houma Migrations.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231012T180000
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