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Labor associated with care including domestic labor, education, elder care, and ecological labor reproduce or regenerate the conditions of life while remaining largely invisible in economies based on extraction. Amplify’s next Alternate Currents panel discussion on Thursday, October 8th, from 7-8pm, brings together artists Alajia McKizia, Sarah Rowe and farmer and educator Cait Caughey for candid discussion about the labor of care and its capacity to propose regenerative modes of artistic production, mutual aid, and economic transformation.
Join us for this conversation, moderated by Lillian Snortland, Development Assistant at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, by registering on Eventbrite here. You will receive a confirmation email with a link to join the discussion on Zoom after registering. And don’t forget to visit the Alternate Currents Blog to read up on the panel topic before the discussion!
Alternate Currents opens space for conversation, ideation, and action around national and international discussions in the arts that have a profound impact at the local level. Alternate Currents exists both on- and off-line in the form of a dedicated online resource and lunch-time conversation series.
Free and open to all. Virtual programming is presented with the support of the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.
About the Panelists:
Cait Caughey: Cait Caughey is a mama and farmer (Mullein Hill Farm) in the Loess Hills on Očeti Šakówiŋ and Báxoje territory where she grows herbs, native prairie plants, and vegetables. Cait loves collaboration, mutual-aid, and intentional land tending which led her to co-create Hiatus Healing Collective with Alajia McKizia. Growing accessible food and plant medicine is her life-long work. Cait also works for Lutheran Family Services supporting skilled and incredibly talented New American farmers who are part of Global Roots.
Alajia McKizia: Alajia McKizia is a multidisciplinary artist working in visual art and performance. She has shown her work at Tugboat Gallery, Amplify Arts, MaMo, and in the Bemis Center's annual auction. She has also created work for public spaces. Alajia has performed at The Union for Contemporary Art with TBD Dance Collective, the Durham Museum with African Culture Connection, and Outrspaces where she presented her solo performance "Illuminate."
Sarah Rowe: Sarah Rowe is a multimedia and performance artist in Omaha, NE. Rowe's participatory work is a call to action, confronting issues of identity and exploitation of nature. Her work re-imagines traditional Native American symbology to fit the narrative of today’s cultural landscape. Drawing from skewed imagery in historic texts, in conjunction with images from Lakota winter counts, Rowe projects her vision and experience into the mix with an offbeat enchantment. Rowe's imagined landscapes are bold and vibrant, containing a shape-shifting bestiary of tales both familiar and strange. Recent exhibitions include a solo show, Nebraska Now, at MONA (Kearney, NE); Art Seen: A Juried Exhibition of Artists from Omaha to Lincoln, Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha, NE); and Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, NE). Rowe holds a BA in Studio Art from Webster University, studying in St. Louis, MO, and Vienna, Austria. Rowe is of Lakota and Ponca descent.
About the Moderator:
Lillian Snortland: Lillian Snortland, originally from Eugene, Oregon, is a self-taught writer of fiction, poetry, and essays. She has explored themes of fantasy, surrealism, and the imaginative feminine from a young age. At Carleton College, she studied storytelling and material culture of the past—Classical Studies, French literature and media, and art history, and continues to play with a multidisciplinary perspective in her analysis today. She currently works in the nonprofit arts sector to provide opportunities of capacity-building and cultural capital to those in need. Further writing can be found at https://chaimihai.wordpress.com/