Cherokee artist Karen Sixkiller will share her artistic journey in creating the “Cancer Sticks - Corruption of Sacred Tobacco” series of sculptures.
Karen Sixkiller is a contemporary Cherokee Nation sculptor and Washington native residing on the Olympic Peninsula. Her experiences and influences working in public health and K-8 education have coalesced in her passion for teaching new perspectives through art. She has a permanent public art installation in Tahlequah, OK and currently several temporary installations in Olympia, WA and Lake Oswego, OR. Her work has been featured at multiple Indigenous and non-Indigenous art shows.
Join us at 12:35 pm in The Little Theater on the main campus of Peninsula College or access the livestream on Zoom (Meeting ID: 890 7589 0152) as we “explore the myths and realities of tobacco use before and since America's colonization through the lens of Native art and humor,” in the words of the artist. A reception will immediately follow in ʔaʔk̓ʷustəƞáwt̓xʷ House of Learning, Peninsula College Longhouse.
For more information, please contact Kate Reavey, Studium Generale Coordinator, at kreavey@pencol.edu or Sadie Crowe at longhouse@pencol.edu.