Sesnon Salon: History of Art & Visual Culture

The Arts Division welcome students, faculty, staff, and the general community to a salon-style gathering presenting the work of UC Santa Cruz’s History of Art and Visual Culture (HAVC) Department.

Assistant Professor Clementine Bordeaux, an enrolled member of the Sičáŋǧu Lakóta Nation (Rosebud Sioux Tribe), grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation (South Dakota). Bordeaux received her Ph.D. in Culture and Performance from the World Arts and Cultures/Dance Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. She works across multi- and interdisciplinary fields and collaborates with artists, cultural bearers, and community activists, and employs Lakota concepts of ikčé, the everyday, and ingenuity, to illustrate a continuum of Očéti Šakówiŋ artistic engagements.

This presentation offers a brief overview of her research, which methodologically and theoretically utilizes relationality as the primary tool to communicate the interrelatedness of Lakota kinship values, a cultural connection to other-than-human beings, and creative practice, as demonstrated through storytelling, poetry, and material culture.

The event will take place outdoors by the Porter Koi Pond. Light refreshments will be served.

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ADMISSION
Free and open to the public.
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FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Oct 16: History of Art and Visual Culture Department
Nov 20: Music Department
Jan 15: Art Department
Feb 19: Film and Digital Media Department
April 16: Creative Technologies
May 21: Department of Performance, Play & Design
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PARKING
Lot 124 & 125 are the closest parking lots to the event.
Parking via permit or ParkMobile.
See TAPS for parking information.

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This program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.