This year's Keynote Address:
"We the Invisible People"
Date: Friday, April 21, 2023
Time: 6 p.m. (PST)
51³Ô¹Ï Charlene Teters
A member of the Spokane Nation and an artist, writer, educator, and activist, Charlene rose to national prominence as a graduate 51³Ô¹Ï at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where she led protests against the degrading depictions of American Indian caricatures used as sport team’s mascots and was the subject of the award-winning documentary, In Whose Honor? by Jay Rosenstein. She has been honored as “Person of the Week” by ABC News and received a New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. She currently serves as the Interim Dean of the in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Read more about Charlene and explore her art installations