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mmip
On some Native nations in the US and Canada, Indigenous women face murder rates more than 10 times the national average. These disappearances and murders are often directly linked to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, sex trafficking and intergenerational trauma impacting Native communities. This MMIP (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons) mural was done…
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stand!
The first planned sit-in of the Civil Rights Movement began in July 1958 in Wichita, Kansas. The goal was the integration of segregated businesses. The movement spread quickly to Oklahoma City. The success of the Oklahoma sit-ins led to sit-ins throughout the South. While North Carolina is known for the contentious sit-ins in 1960 in…
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sight does not equal vision
Back in the fall of 2022 I received an invitation from a photography organization I’d never heard of called FotoFocus. It was surprising to me that I didn’t know anything about since I’ve been following photography magazines and blogs closely for the past 37 years. FotoFocus hosts a biennial which they describes as follows “the…
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Charlie Glass and the mystery woman.
I didn’t know who the lady beside Charlie Glass was when I put this piece up in Moab, UT in October of this year. When Mary Langworthy of Moab Museum presented me with several photos of Charlie (included below), I gravitated to the image of him above because it shows 2 handsome and stylishly dressed…
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junaluska
The Junaluska community in Boone, North Carolina is one of the earliest African American communities in western North Carolina. “According to census records from 1850 Johnson Cuzzins (also spelled Cuzzens and Cousins) was a 44 year old farmer with a white wife named Charlotta (1). Johnson and Charlotta had nine children ranging from three months to eighteen…
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combining elements 1
water Anyone who has spent time in the southwest knows how precious a resource water is. A Washington Post headline in February of this year announced “Southwest drought is the most extreme in 1200 years” and “The past 22 years rank as the driest period since at least 800 A.D.” The Guardian in November 2021…
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Native Enslavement in the Southwest
On June 28, 1865, President Andrew Johnson directed every Indian Agent in the Southwest to conduct a survey to determine persons holding Native American captives as slaves, although they were not at this time asked to free Indian slaves. When Lafe submitted his list of Indian captives to Colorado Governor John Evan on July 17,…
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Pandemic Chronicles
I spent the early part of the pandemic (April to August), collaborating with poets Esther Belin, Jess X. Snow, Ursula Rucker, Mahogany L. Brown and Olmeca and visual artists Titus Brooks Heagins and André Leon Gray to create an online zine we call “Pandemic Chronicles, Volume 1.” We received contributions from Thea Gahr, Jayden Fields…
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4 meditations on a changing environment
Four Meditations on a Changing Climate The first image is a portrait of 2 shrubs that were scorched recently in a brush fire near my home. Scientific models project more fires nationwide (worldwide actually), as temperatures increase creating more kindling for big fires.
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stories from ground zero
July 16, 1945 was an ominous day in the history of humankind and the planet as the US Army’s Manhattan Project detonated Trinity, the first atomic bomb, in Jornada del Muerto, NM. (“Jornada del Muerto” fittingly translates as “Journey of the Dead Man” or “Working Day of the Dead.”) July 16 is also the day of one…