Ursala Hudson is giving a zoom-only presentation entitled, “Elevating Female-Gendered Art Practices for Collective Prosperity” on Wednesday, April 30th at noon.
Hudson describes the subject of her presentation as follows:
“Art is but the remnants left by the hands of our ancestors, the physical embodiment of countless generations shaping movement into form. Indigenous art practices are non-literary languages that communicate and shape worldviews and perspectives. By engaging in the creative practices, we place ourselves within a continuum of knowledge-making, -keeping and -sharing.
In the wake of the colonial project’s assimilation efforts, Indigenous communities have adopted Western understandings of Art, stripped of the sustenance and deep healing qualities that Art has granted us for time immemorial. In the global contemporary art world, physical form and conceptual contributions are prioritized over cultural and spiritual importance. The application of heteropatriarchal gender binaries has rendered customarily female-gendered creative practices inferior to male-gendered equivalents. Internalized Western valuation of artforms deprive contemporary tribal systems of the spiritual and unspoken tools needed to move into the future in Right Relation.
However, when refocused through a non-colonial lens, customarily female-gendered art forms reveal themselves as vital conduits of knowledge, entwined with all realms of existence and stretching across time. By elevating these practices, we unlock their wisdom in navigating and dismantling both internalized and external systems of oppression.”
This is the last event in the 2025 Share Your Culture/ Share Your Research online presentation series.
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Wednesday, April 30th at noon
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
Meeting ID: 883 4611 2727
Passcode: women