Safety for Our Sisters: Ending Violence Against Native Women
Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 7:30 PM EST
Location: Ackerman Hall in the Michael C. Carlos Museum and Zoom
Masks Required

“The more we become humans that non-Natives have to interact with, the more difficult it is to justify a legal narrative that dehumanizes us.”                                                                                                                 —Mary Kathryn Nagle, The New Yorker

The Carlos Museum welcomes Mary Kathryn Nagle, an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation, for a lecture in conjunction with the exhibition Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger.

Nagle is a partner at Pipestem and Nagle Law, P.C. where she works to protect tribal sovereignty and the inherent right of Indian Nations to protect their women and children from domestic violence and sexual assault. She is also an award-winning playwright who studied theater at Georgetown University before graduating summa cum laude from Tulane Law School. From 2015-2019, she served as the Inaugural Director of Yale University’s Indigenous Performing Arts Program. She has received commissions from Arena Stage, Portland Center Stage, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Round House Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. In the fall of 2020, her play Sovereignty was performed over Zoom at the Carlos in honor of Indigenous People’s Day, reuniting the original cast from the Arena State production.

In a lecture titled “Safety for Our Sisters: Ending Violence Against Native Women,” Nagle will discuss the ways in which both her legal work and her artistic work draw attention to the pervasive issue of violence against Native women, who suffer disproportionately high levels of rape and domestic violence.

This lecture is made possible through the generous support of the Grace Welch Blanton Lecture Fund.

Recital/Lecture by Indigenous Violinist Heidi Senungetuk
November 14, 2021, 4 PM EST
Location: Michael C. Carlos, Ackerman Hall

In this recital/lecture, violinist and Emory Visiting Professor of Music Heidi Senungetuk (Kingikmiut Inupiaq), will present two works that highlight Indigenous modes of creativity in music. The first of these two,  For Heidi Senungetuk, was composed by Raven Chacon (Navajo Nation) as part of his series For Zitkála Šá. The second piece on the program, “Qutaaŋuaqtuit: Dripping Music,” created for the ongoing art exhibition Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, which brings attention to concepts of musical score interpretation, Indigenous language revitalization, interpretation of ancestral material arts, and musical performances as acts of sovereignty.

Gallery Talk with artist Cannupa Hanska Luger
November 14, 2021, 2:30 PM EST
Location: Michael C. Carlos Museum, Level Three Exhibition Galleries 
Sign Up Required
In accordance with Emory University’s Gathering Policy, masks must be worn at this event.

Cannupa Hanska Luger, one of the two contemporary Indigenous artists whose work is featured in Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger, will give a gallery talk about his work in the exhibition focusing on collaboration, social engagement, and innovative use of materials.

This program is part of Cannupa Hanska Luger’s artist residency, made possible through the generous financial support of the Hightower Lecture Fund, the Michael C. Carlos Museum, and Emory University’s departments of Art History, English, Sociology, Anthropology, African American Studies, History, Film and Media Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, and the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference.

Emory Climate Talk with artist Cannupa Hanska Luger
November 11, 2021, 4 PM EST
Location: Michael C. Carlos Museum, Ackerman Hall
In accordance with Emory University’s Gathering Policy, masks are required at this event.
If you would like to attend virtually through Zoom, click HERE.

Cannupa Hanska Luger, whose works are featured in the exhibition Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger will participate in the Emory Climate Talks series, which explores the scientific and social aspects of global climate change.

Cannupa Hanska Luger is a New Mexico-based multidisciplinary artist who uses social collaboration in response to timely and site-specific issues. Raised on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, he is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and is of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, and European descent. Luger produces multi-pronged projects that take many forms—through monumental installations that incorporate ceramics, video, sound, fiber, steel, new media, technology and repurposed materials, Luger interweaves performance and political action to communicate stories about 21st-century Indigeneity. This work provokes diverse audiences to engage with Indigenous peoples and values apart from the lens of colonial social structuring, and often presents a call to action to protect land from capitalist exploits. He combines critical cultural analysis with dedication and respect for the diverse materials, environments, and communities he engages.

Among other works, Luger will discuss The Mirror Shield Project (2016), a social engagement work, which invited the public to create mirrored shields for Water Protectors protesting the Keystone pipeline at Standing Rock. The project has since been formatted and used in various resistance movements across the nation.

This program is part of Cannupa Hanska Luger’s artist residency, made possible through the generous financial support of the Hightower Lecture Fund, the Michael C. Carlos Museum, and Emory University’s departments of Art History, English, Sociology, Anthropology, African American Studies, History, Film and Media Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, and the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference.

Cannupa Hanska Luger: Artist as Social Engineer
November 7, 2021, 2 PM EST
Location: Ackerman Hall
Masks are required in accordance with Emory University’s Visitor Policy.
If you prefer to attend virtually through Zoom, click HERE.

“In a world polarized politically, economically, racially, and sexually we are forced to question our trust. However, our trust is the mortar that binds our intelligence. We need one another now more than ever. But how do we see eye to eye with human groups we don’t trust? Enter the artist. If we can subvert the idea art is an object, a noun, then we can reinstate the truth that art is a verb, an action. In developing processes that include society as a medium the act of making builds communities that are embedded in the object of these processes. It connects people that may not engage with one another to create work together. Thus the role of the artist is bridge-builder.”                                                                —Cannupa Hanska Luger

Join us for an artist talk titled “Cannupa Hanska Luger: Artist as Social Engineer” in which the contemporary Indigenous artist will discuss his practice and the collaboration and social engagement at its core, from his recent Something to Hold Onto installation at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum in Mesa, Arizona to his current video, installation, and land-based Future Ancestral Technologies.

This program is part of Cannupa Hanska Luger’s artist residency, made possible through the generous financial support of the Hightower Lecture Fund, the Michael C. Carlos Museum, and Emory University’s departments of Art History, English, Sociology, Anthropology, African American Studies, History, Film and Media Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, and the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference.

Cannupa Hanska Luger’s work is featured in the exhibition Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger, on view at the Carlos Museum through December 12, 2021.

Here Song Walk with Cannupa Hanska Luger
Saturday November 6, 2021, 1 PM EST
 Registration Required

Cannupa Hanka Luger’s ancestors, the people of the Northern Plains Tribes of North America, studied horizon lines to create melody and other types of sonic experiences. This practice, known as “singing the horizon,” connected them to place and reinforced their relationship to the land.

Working with Atlanta’s Flux Projects, Luger created Here Song, a mobile app that allows users to trace the land and create tonal resonances—sonic stories that engage directly with the land.

Join Cannupa Hanska Luger and master naturalist and nature photographer Kathryn Kolb, for a guided walk through Atlanta’s Cascade Springs Nature Preserve, one of the largest areas of old-growth forest in the city. The park lies on Cascade Road, which follows the ancient Native American Sandtown Trail that stretched from Stone Mountain to the Creek village of Sandtown on the Chattahoochee and into Alabama.

Meet at 1 PM at the Kilgo Circle entrance to the Carlos Museum to board the bus to Cascade Nature Preserve.
Space is limited and registration is required by clicking HERE.
In accordance with Emory’s Gathering Policy, masks will be required on the bus.

Carlos Reads The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle
Monday November 1, 2021, 7:30 – 9:00 PM EST
Registration Required: Call 404-727-6118; Space is limited
Fee:  $30 for Carlos Museum members; $50 for nonmembers, and includes the cost of the book.

Malinda Maynor Lowery’s recent book, The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle, examines the remarkable history of the largest tribe east of the Mississippi, who have survived in their original homeland, maintaining a distinct identity as Indians in a biracial South.

Dr. Lowery, who recently joined the Emory faculty as Cahoon Family Professor in History, will lead readers in a discussion of the book, which intertwines her family history with that of the Lumbee, shedding new light on America’s defining moments from the first encounters with Europeans to the present day. How and why did the Lumbees both fight to establish the United States and resist the encroachments of its government? How have they not just survived, but thrived, through Civil War, Jim Crow, the civil rights movement, and the war on drugs, to ultimately establish their own constitutional government in the twenty-first century? Their fight for full federal acknowledgment continues to this day, while the Lumbee people’s struggle for justice and self-determination continues to transform our view of the American experience.

“The compelling saga of the Lumbee nation demands to be heard, and Malinda Maynor Lowery’s transcendent historical and cultural mastery of the Lumbee past make her the paramount historian to write it. This profound and lyrical work, in both its impeccable scholarship and its dazzling and seductive storytelling, reveals anew that the complexities of American history remain impenetrable without the foundational prism of Native American experience. And yet the Lumbee story illuminates that larger history better than any that spring to mind. Lowery’s radiant narrative unveils the Lumbee nation from distinctive angles of vision with which we all must reckon to understand even our own histories.   —Timothy B. Tyson, author of The Blood of Emmett Till