One Native American Artist’s Approach to Theater: Creative Sovereignty
Friday 01/09/26 (postponed from 12/05/25), doors open at 5:00pm ET, interview starts at 5:30. Come early so we can meet you!
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In the room: Tara Moses (citizen of Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, Mvskoke), director, multi award-winning playwright, and co-founder of Groundwater Arts, a US-based artist collaborative committed to reenvisioning the arts field through a climate justice lens. Indigenous artists are perhaps the least visible in our culture, a culture founded on white authority. Equally concerned with the fair treatment of our planet as well as equitable treatment of the multiple populations that inhabit it, Tara will talk about finding her rightful place as an artist, and how decolonization offers a path towards more equal opportunities. She'll reference a new endeavor from Groundwater Arts, the publication of Start with the Ground: a journal on decolonization in which Tara served as one of the editors and contributors; and she'll share the basic principles of Creative Sovereignty, including individual control of one's work, self-determination and cultural preservation.
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