IAIA Alum Crystal Worl has a surprise for people who think Native American performance arts are limited to drumming, tribal dancing, and appearances in occasional movies. Worl (Tlingit/Athabascan), from Anchorage, Alaska, offered a new entertainment option at the recent Winter Indian Market in Santa Fe as an aerialist spinning and posing from hanging fabric. "Crystal's performance adds another dimension to live cultural, traditional and contemporary Native American performance. We (the Santa Fe Indian Market) want to keep current and expand people's perceptions of Native art and culture," said the Market's John Paul Rangel in a news release.
Daniel Banks, Associate Professor of Theatre and Performing Arts -- and a co-director of Theatre Without Borders -- is a co-convener of the Theatre Without Borders/Revolutions International Theatre Festival Symposium in Albuquerque, January 29-February 1, 2015. The focus of the symposium is The Ritual of Story on Stage, featuring performances, workshops, roundtable discussions, and gatherings. Spring guest artists will include Hakim Bellamy, Terry Gomez, Bruce King, Rulan Tangen and IAIA's Stephen Fadden -- who will be roundtable participants at the symposium.
For more information and to reserve a place, please contact symposium coordinator Elsa Menendez at [email protected].
IAIA on the radio! Wednesday January 14th at 4:00 PM, KSFR, 101.1 FM launched "Through Our Eyes", an IAIA-produced show examining a wide variety of issues relating to Native Americans. Hosted by Eric Davis,
Director of Marketing & Communications for IAIA -- the first show featured guests Dr. Robert Martin, President of IAIA and Patsy Phillips, Director of the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. A permanent time-slot for the show has yet to be determined. Show number two will air at 4:00 pm, Wednesday, January 21st. You can stream the show live at KSFR.org or check out the podcast on their website any time you'd like.
Walk the Juniper Ridge Trail and Enjoy the Poems! A big thank you to instructor James Stevens and students who contributed poems on the campus' Juniper Ridge Trail. Take a moment while walking the trail and enjoy!
Henry and the Animals, featuring actor John Flax and directed & produced by Peter M. Kershaw (Adjunct for Cinematic Arts, IAIA) has started a film festival life -- kicking off with official acceptance into the 8th International Children's Film Festival, Bangladesh. The Festival, founded in 2008, is the most prestigious film festival in Bangladesh. It is the only film festival for children and young adults and also the biggest film related event in the country and the biggest children's film festival in south Asia, held simultaneously all across the country. The film will play in January, 2015. Closer to home, you can also see Henry and the Animals playing as part of New Mexico Filmmakers Showcase on Sunday, January 25, 2015 -- during the Block F: Horror, Other and Sci-Fi/Fantasy Category -- 3:30 pm at the Jean Cocteau Cinema, here in Santa Fe. In addition to his film work, Peter Is now a student of IAIA in the MFA Creative Writing Program, with an emphasis in Screenwriting.
Carmen Henan, Dean of Students, completed an weeklong Title IX Investigator/Coordinator training in Phoenix. The Student Life Department will be sending members of our Student Hearing and Review Panel (formerly the Student Life Appeals Board) to Title IX training in February as well.
JoAnn Bishop, Director of the IAIA Fitness & Wellness Department, will be attending National Archery in the Schools training and certification January 10, 2015, sponsored by New Mexico Game & Fish Department. The purpose of the training is to develop competitive archery, archery skills and range safety for students in the State of New Mexico.
Our Activities Coordinator Nocona Burgess earned his Master's in Art Education from UNM this past May. He's an IAIA alumni and has been working here for 12 years.
The IAIA Student Government President Jamelyn Ebelacker (Santa Clara) will be attending the AIHEC 2015 Winter Meeting in Washington DC in February.
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MFA STUDENT NEWS
Celeste Adame has three poems forthcoming in Congeries.
In November, Crisosto Apache was invited to sit on a panel for the Denver Quarterly's 150th Anniversary Special Edition commemorating the Sand Creek Massacre to discuss his piece, "K'us t�dini tsąąbi' (+2)" [Thirty-eighty Necks (plus two)]. Crisosto was also featured in the Tribal College Journal ("X"), Toe Good Poetry ("Double Helix"), and Hawaii Review ("Quadrants"). He has two poems forthcoming in Congeries.
Jason Asenap published interviews with IAIA alums Tristan Ahtone and Micah Wesley in his column "Asenap in ABQ" for Indian Country Today. Jason also acted in a new Blackhorse Lowe film to be screened at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York - The George Gustav Heye Center. Additionally, he is working on a documentary with Tristan Ahtone for Al Jazeera America.
Bryan Bearhart has had poems in recent issues of PANK, Big Bell, Cream City Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Poetry City, USA, and Yellow Medicine Review. He has four poems forthcoming in Congeries.
Chee Brossy has prose poems out in Sentence and forthcoming in Denver Quarterly. He was a featured reader at Sunday Chatter in Albuquerque.
Paige Buffington has a poem forthcoming in Narrative Magazine and five poems forthcoming in Congeries.
Alice Rose Crow's essays, "It is Juneteenth," "Live," and "Look and Then You'll See Hawai'i" appeared in the September 2014 issue of Yellow Medicine Review. Her essay, "What Comes From Hitting Sticks" is featured in the Tribal College Journal, August 2014. in addition, her essays, "Lord Have Mercy for These Days," and "Kaapaat" appear in River, Blood, and Corn. Another essay, "Cal Lensink," is forthcoming from Camas in Winter 2015. Her essay "Thanksgiving" was a winner in Brevity's Holiday Smile contest and appeared on the Brevity blog.
Timothy Dorsey was a 2014 Lambda Literary Fellow in Creative Nonfiction. He has four poems forthcoming in Congeries.
Dara Elerath has four poems forthcoming in Congeries.
Ramona Emerson has work in Literary Orphans and Yellow Medicine Review. She is also a 2013 recipient of the SWAIA Discovery Fellowship, the Edna Furber Fellowship for Women studying Creative Fine Arts, as well as the 2014 Best Student Film for "Hidden Talents" from Tribal College Journal. Her short film "Opal" was chosen for national screening on Comcast XFinity on Demand for the month of November.
Jamie Figueroa was a recipient of a scholarship award for DISQUIET: Literary and Culture Exchange in Lisbon, Portugal (Summer 2014); the Scholastic Teaching Award for Fall 2013; and the Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Arts Award (Fall 2013-Spring 2015). Participating in Poetry Storm 3.0, she organized and hosted a reading with the Cut+Paste Society. Jamie's work has been featured in Eleven Eleven, Hinchas De Poesia, As/Us, and Sin Fronteras.
Millissa Kingbird has two poems forthcoming in Congeries.
Sasha LaPointe has an essay, "Blood Running," in the current issue of Portland Review and will be interning for Copper Canyon Press this spring. She is a Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Arts Award recipient (Fall 2014-Spring 2016) and is currently interning at Copper Canyon Press.
David Lindblom is co-director, editor and cinematographer of a series of short films. His work has garnered him an official selection in the Bolder Life Festival for work on Cheyanne's Story, and his work for Jessica's Story won best LGBT film in late September at the 2014 Golden Door International Film Festival. His 2013 film, Four Stories About Water, toured throughout the world with the traveling International Uranium Film Festival, and was an official selection of the International Uranium Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro in May of 2014.
Terese Mailhot's short story, "Heartberries," is forthcoming in Carve Magazine.
Kateri Menominee was a winner in the first Muse Times Two College Poetry Prize and was invited to read her work at Collected Works Bookstore. Her chapbook, In Tongues, was published in Salt Press's Effigies II, edited by Allison Hedge Coke.
Ruby Murray's flash fiction has been selected for Yellow Medicine Review, Spring, 2014. Her poetry has been selected for About Place Journal, 2014. Ruby will also have an essay in Wild in the Willamette from Oregon State University Press, 2015. Ruby is attending a Fellowship Residency at Playa, Summer Lake, OR. She also has a scholarship to the Palm Beach Poetry Festivalto work with Maurice Manning in early 2015.
Pat Natseway won "The Write Now" contest hosted by Flagstaff Live.
Penny Perkins is the winner of Beecher's Magazine Fiction Contest 2014 for her short story, "Car Ride Through Corn Fields (1975)." Her creative non-fiction piece, "A Girl's Mouth" was featured in the September issue of Hoax #10. Penny's flash fiction, "I Am the Minotaur," "Making the Cut," and "Vampires at Dusk" appeared in Waxwing #5.
Barbara Robidoux has fiction in Yellow Medicine Review, and her poetry has been featured in Santa Fe Literary Review, Ribbons: Tanka Society of America Journal, and Moonbathing: A Journal of Woman's Tanka.
Sable Sweetgrass's play Awowakii was selected to premiere on the closing night at this year's Weesageechak Begins to Dance Festival presented by Native Earth Performing Arts. She was also featured in Muskrat Magazine.
Teri Tibbett has just completed a chapter entitled, "Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder as a Mitigating Factor in Alaska" for a book on the topic of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and the legal system, to be published by Springer Publishing.
David Weiden's short story, "Sourtoe," appeared in Tribal College Journal. He presented a paper entitled "Red Noir: Examining the Possibilities for Indigenous Crime Literature" at the 2014 Native American Literature Symposium in Minneapolis, Minnesota.