Panels & Discussions
Making Space, Holding Place.
Featuring Kate Fowler and Josh Collier (Appalachian Media Institute), Danny Peralta and Roy Baizan (The Point), Noelle Flores Theard
Both Appalshop and The Point in the Bronx are long-standing organizations that prioritize community-based storytelling in order to provide resources and opportunities for youth engaged with the issues that most affect them. These community-driven organizations create safe spaces for young people to express themselves, create alternative narratives, subvert stereotypes, and represent their realities. How do long-term engagement, persistence, and commitment to core values help sustain organizations through decades of change and transition?
Creative Justice Initiative
A partnership with Creative Justice Initiative– a nationally-oriented effort to confront the systemic inequality and chronic under-funding of community-based arts and culture organizations– on a series of intergenerational and multiracial conversations about creative equity.
I co-moderated the final conversation alongside my collaborator Tiffany Turner from Appalshop and panelists Denise Oliver (Black Panther Party, The Young Lords), Madonna Thunderhawk (the American Indian Movement), Tailinh Agoyo (Co-founder and Director of We are the Seeds of Culture Trust) and Cliff Chambliss (Founder of Trinity Creations).
Interview with Wendy Ewald
Host Kelli Haywood and special guest host Kate Fowler speak with award winning photographer Wendy Ewald. Ewald visited Letcher Co., Kentucky in the late 1970s and worked with youth to document life as they saw it. The work became the book Portraits & Dreams. The methods she developed in Appalachia she took around the world. In this episode of Mountain Talk Monday, Ewald and hosts discuss a variety of topics including how Ewald and her students made the photos, who can tell the story of a place… who has the right, and what is similar across cultures when we view them through the eyes of children.