Tribesourcing with Rhiannon Sorrell – Adding new narrations to historical films, Tribesourcing brings untold or suppressed stories to Native communities. Diné College Librarian Rhiannon Sorrell shares with the PBS show “Colores” how inaccurate or culturally uninformed films are an opportunity for Indigenous peoples to reclaim their voices.

T’áá awólí bee: Navajo Contemporary Arts Virtual Lecture Series – Barbara Teller Ornelas and Lynda Teller Pete (Weavers)

Join us as sisters, Barbara Teller Ornelas and Lynda Teller Pete, from Two Grey Hills, New Mexico discuss their weaving lives from their modest beginnings to their inspiring work with the Heard Museum. In this talk with these 5th Generation Diné Weavers we will also gain insight to their literary projects such as “Spider Woman’s Children, Navajo Weavers Today” (2018) and their up and coming instructional text, “How to Weave a Navajo Rug and Other Lessons from Spider Woman” (October, 2020).

T’áá awólí bee: Navajo Contemporary Arts Virtual Lecture Series – Beverly Blacksheep “Traditional Contemporary: Looking Back, Moving Forward”

Navajo painter, Beverly Blacksheep’s illustrations and paintings are well-known throughout Navajo country and abroad. Many of her portrayals of Navajo women, motherhood, and traditional life ways have garnered accolades at the southwest Indian markets, including the coveted Intertribal Indian Ceremonial poster centerpiece in 1994. Join us as Beverly discusses her rise to fame, including her inspirations, challenges and the significance of her latest pieces.