Our Unlearning Hour 2024

 

We are delighted to invite you to another special session of Our Unlearning Hour 2024* led by local Two-Spirit and Afro-Indigenous visual artist, educator, curator, & alchemist Indigo Gonzales. 

 

Indigo will facilitate a somatic paper-based workshop in which guests are encouraged to reflect, compost, and transmute their process of unlearning over the past year. Through this communal harvest, we will cultivate nourishment through open inquiry, mapping with materials such as rolled paper and ink, and their transformation into paper miniatures. 

I hope you can join us – whether in person or on Zoom – for this unique and exciting event!

 

Indigo is co-curator (with Juan Daza & Dexter Komakaru) of the exhibition Beyond Tradition: Indigenous Art of Central Ohio which opens on Friday, November 15 at the Greater Columbus Arts Council's Loann Crane Gallery [external link]. 

 

*Our Unlearning Hour is a generative & unique space committed to interdisciplinary decolonial work & methods across Ohio State University & beyond, open to all. For those of you who are new to Our Unlearning Hour, you can get some general information of the work we've been doing since Fall 2019 here: What is Our Unlearning Hour? [external link]

 

In addition, in its current manifestation - Our Unlearning Hour 2024 - we will be meeting on a monthly basis throughout the year as a way of being actively participating in This Insistence: Preparations for Gathering, a public programs series created in collaboration with the Wexner Center for the Arts & their Summer exhibition by the Alutiiq artist Tanya Lukin Linklater [external link]. 

 

A good place to start to learn about Lukin Linklater's amazing work & her central concept of insistence, is her text 'A Glossary of Insistence' [external link].

For more information on this project, you can send an email to thisinsistence@gmail.com . 

 

Our Unlearning Hour is supported by the OSU Center for Ethnic Studies & the K'acha Willaykuna Arts & Humanities Discovery Theme project and is hosted by Richard Finlay Fletcher and Michelle Wibbelsman, in collaboration with artist and educator Indigo Gonzales, who develops unique workshops and other exciting activities for our group.