Join us for the #SOHA2020 virtual conference, which includes a plenary session on September 11 at 2:50 pm Pacific Time featuring Nevada Native artists Jean LaMarr and Jack Malotte with Fawn Douglas as the moderator.
Register and learn more at https://www.southwestoralhistory.org/conference.html.
KNPR segment that aired on September 11, 2020:
https://knpr.org/knpr/2020-09/oral-history-teaches-how-navigate-present.
This panel is a conversation between accomplished Native American activist artists about the role of oral history in their work. Both Jean LaMarr (Northern Paiute and Achomawi) and Jack Malotte (Western Shoshone and Washoe) have worked in multiple media, including printmaking, painting, pen and ink, and public murals, and they have been lifelong activists in service of their communities. Among the themes their art engages with are militarization, Native activism, treaty rights, environmental justice, kinship and tradition, and protecting sacred sites. In this conversation, Southern Paiute artist Fawn Douglas talks with both LaMarr and Malotte about the role and importance of oral history in Native communities in Nevada and beyond, and how they have drawn on it in their art and their activism.
Southwest Oral History Association 