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The Native American Voices video project, completed in 2011, was conducted by exhibition curator Lucy Fowler Williams with support from the Annenberg Foundation and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten. Dr. Williams hired Hopi journalist, Patty Talahongva and her Phoenix based film crew, and traveled to four U.S. locations to conduct 25 first-person interviews with Native American artists, activists, scholars, and youth in their home communities. The following films highlight important issues that emerged from those discussions. Portions of these videos are presented in the Native American Voices exhibition.
Counternarratives: Native American Artists in Our Own Words amplifies the varied and meaningful substance of Native American art today. Pueblo, Dinè, and Tlingit artists speak about the power of art to strengthen cultural traditions and pathways, to record histories, to heal, and to record the beauty and fragility of nature.
