Activist Charlene Teters to Speak at Institute of American Indian Arts

Native News Network Staff in Entertainment Discussion »

SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO – Activist Charlene Teters, Spokane, will speak about her work, which continues to examine the social presumptions and portrayal of Indian people in pop culture and media, during the last of the 50/50: Fifty Artists, Fifty Years exhibition Artist Lecture Series Sunday, December 2 at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.

50/50: Fifty Artists, Fifty Years exhibition Artist Lecture Series Sunday, December 2

Currently Teters serves as chair of the Institute's Studio Arts Department. She received the Allan Houser Memorial Award, the New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts in 2002. She earned her Associates of Fine Arts at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College of Santa Fe, a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois and an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Mitchell College. Her work expresses her personal and political views about America's dehumanization of Indian peoples.

While at the University of Illinois, Teters became involved with protests of Chief Illiniwek, the university's mascot at the time. Teters' and other students' protests led to the making of the critically-acclaimed film, "In Whose Honor" that examines the practice of using American Indian imagery in sports.

Charlene Teters – Spokane Tribal Member