Tag: navajo
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Diné Covid 19 PSA Posters (for downloading)
On April 14, 2020, a Huffington Post headline read, “Navajo Nation Reports More Coronavirus Cases per Capita Than All but 2 U.S. States: Only New York and New Jersey Have More Confirmed Infections per 100,000 people.” The last point is key, because testing on the Navajo Nation has not been as robust as for New York and…
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Hope and Trauma in a Poisoned Land: The Impact of Uranium Mining on Navajo Lands + People
photo by Nancy Hill advertisement for the show on eye lounge, roosevelt street in phoenix installation at coconino center for the arts Artist statement for Hope + Trauma in a Poisoned Land Coconino Center for the Arts August 12, 2017 – October 28, 2017 Atomic (r)Age While many…
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off with a bang!
So here we are on the cusp of a new year. It’s 2017’s turn to bring forth a new beginning, an opportunity for a re-do or maybe a resetting of our imaginations. I want to give thanks for the beauty around me and to people like Cori Bearshield + her family and to the Hurleys who share…
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Indigenous People’s Day at Fort Lewis College
I’m honored to have been invited by students and staff and Fort Lewis College to create a mural in recognition of their first celebration of Indigenous People’s Day October 10, 2016 choosing to tell history from the perspective of First Nations people. Goodbye Columbus Day. The effort to get the city of Durango and the…
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Painted Desert Project Summary, Artist: Demian DinéYazhi
From September 6th – 9th, 2016 I was invited out to the Painted Desert Project by Chip Thomas (Jetsonorama) to engage with students at the Shonto Preparatory School on the Navajo Nation. Prior to my time with the Painted Desert Project, Chip and myself discussed making artwork with the immediate community that would result in a…
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adios + gracias hermano
I started the Painted Desert Project in 2012 uncertain how long it would go. A friend at the time warned me to watch out. “Once street artists hear about this project you’ll start getting requests from all over and it’ll get out of control,” he said. Fortunately, this hasn’t happened. However, one such random request…
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suicide + the human spirit
I called a fellow physician in Tuba City about a month ago to get his guidance. I had a patient coming down off a several week binge who was open to inpatient rehab. Despite my being here 28 plus years I wanted to confirm with my friend who has been working on the rez 30 years…
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building community
“The war of an artist with his society is a lover’s war and he does at his best what lover’s do which is to reveal the beloved to himself and with that revelation to make freedom real.” James Baldwin When I started wheat pasting large images along the roadside in 2009 I imagined…