Navigating Intersectionalities, Decolonizing the Field Museum, and Modern Indigenous Art

Navigating Intersectionalities, Decolonizing the Field Museum, and Modern Indigenous Art

Guest Speaker: Debra Yepa-Pappan

Tuesday 11/15; 5-6pm Holmes Student Center-Regency Room 

Debra Yepa-Pappan (Jemez Pueblo and Korean) is a visual artist whose digital works center on themes about her mixed-race identity as she incorporates symbolic imagery influenced by both her cultures and the urban environment where she was raised. She is currently the Native Community Engagement Coordinator at the Field Museum where she was deeply involved with the development of Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories. Both through her artwork and her work at the Museum, she is committed to changing inaccurate representations of Native people, and advocates for the inclusion of Native first voice and perspectives. Debra will be engaging the audience and speaking on how they bring their identities to their work at the Field Museum by decolonizing exhibits and to their art.

Business Passport and Honors Connect approved

Co-Sponsored by: Latino Resource Center, Asian American Resource Center, Pick Museum of Anthropology, the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center, and the English Department

Meets pillar requirement for Boey Honors Program: Cultural Diversity/Engagement
And Adela de la Torre Latino Honor Society