RadioACTive 08.07.23

  • August 7, 2023
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Artists for art with Jorge Rojas, co-founder of the new gallery Material, and artist Kathryn Knudsen. Native Market Days. Ned Blackhawk, author of the new book The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of American History.

Tonight's show features the following people, organizations and/or events. Check them out and get plugged into your community!

Comments from Planned Parenthood Association of Utah's Kathryn Boyd and Camila Vega, staff attorney, Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Tomorrow, the Utah Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Planned Parenthood Association of Utah v. State of Utah, the injunction blocking Utah's so-called “Trigger Ban.”

  • Aug. 9: Live-stream Utah Supreme Court oral arguments in Planned Parenthood Association of Utah v. State of Utah. To find the stream, click here. 

Chauma Kee-Jansen of American Indian Services on the nonprofit's Native Market Days coming up this weekend.

  • Aug. 11-12: Utah Native Market Days at Thanksgiving Point, 3003 N. Thanksgiving Way, Lehi. Event by American Indian Services: "This community event brings the Native and non-Native communities together to enjoy two days of Native artists, hoop competition, and one of the first Native fashion shows to come to Utah. Funds from these events will help provide scholarships to Native American/Alaska Native students throughout the U.S. For more information, visit www.americanindianservices.org."

Artists for art with Jorge Rojas, co-founder of the new gallery Material with fellow artist Colour Maisch, and artist Kathryn Knudsen. Located at 2970 S. West Temple, Unit B, South Salt Lake, Material's first exhibit opens this Saturday with a reception from 6:30-9:00 p.m.

  • Jorge Rojas, a recognized artist, performer, curator and museum educator from Morelos, Mexico, is respected locally and nationally as a dynamic and innovative arts leader. His work and curatorial projects have been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries, museums and alternative spaces. Rojas has dedicated his curatorial practice to promoting, nurturing, and cultivating the vision and diverse talents of emerging and mid-career BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and immigrant artists. 

  • Kathryn Knudsen’s work utilizes a variety of traditional media, abstract forms, and found objects to produce an artistic vision with the intent to heal, refashion, and beautify. The result--an unpredictable labyrinth of old recycled clothing, unwanted paintings, neglected thread, discarded paper, necklace beads, and other recycled materials. Picking up objects that might otherwise languish in scrap heaps, second-hand clothing stores, or boxes of discarded memories, her aim is to reintegrate the power of transformed media with therapeutic promise of beauty and artistic experience. In these works the possibility of refashioning the world of discarded consumption becomes an artistic reality, something more than an aspiration, a wholly new experience in itself. The work realizes that the very fabric of our culture and everyday lives can be recast and reclaimed, just as nature does in its endless march of life and desire. The oddness of the shapes, the opalescence of the textures, the quirkiness of the colors--all a deliberate collaboration with the materials which at first seem unimportant or used up, only to become something new and contemplative.

RadioACTive's Valene MC talks with Ned Blackhawk, author of the new book The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of American History. 

  • Ned Blackhawk is the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, where he is the faculty coordinator for the Yale Group for the Study of Native America. Blackhawk is an enrolled member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada. A graduate of McGill University, he holds graduate degrees in history from UCLA and the University of Washington.

    Blackhawk is the author or co-editor of four books on Native American and Indigenous history, including Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West, which won seven professional awards, including the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize for the most significant first book in U.S. history, awarded by the Organization of American Historians.

    Author of the first state of the field essay on Native American history commissioned by the American Historical Association, Blackhawk has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, American Quarterly, Reviews in American History, American Historical Review, Ethnohistory, and American Indian Culture and Research Journal, among others.

    Blackhawk has worked closely with museum communities and published in exhibition catalogs for the National Museum of the American Indians, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with his wife and family.

Guests' views, thoughts, or opinions are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the board, staff, or members of Listeners' Community Radio of Utah, KRCL 90.9fm. Questions, comments or suggestions for the show? Email radioactive@krcl.org. Tonight's RadioACTive team included:

 

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