In August, We Paint the Town Red
OGHÁ P’O’OGE-TEWA laNDN MKT 2019 “Santa Fe, NM''
iaia Museum of ContemporaryNative Arts (mocna)
Visual Voices: Contemporary Chickasaw Art
Fri, August 16, 2019–Sun, January 19, 2020
Artists:
+Kristin Dorsey+Brent Greenwood+Billy Hensley+Norma Howard+Brenda Kingery+Dustin Mater+Paul C. Moore+Margaret Roach Wheeler+Joanna Blackburn+Dan Worcester+Lisa Hudson+Lokosh (Joshua D. Hinson)+Erin Shaw+Brent Greenwood+Tyra Shackleford+Maya Stewart+
Photography by:
Leah Rose
Styled by:
Amy Yueng
Kim Smith
Stephanie Ortega
Makeup Artists:
Kinsale: Devona Bradford
Sivan & Charelle: April Chavez
Special Shout out to the iaia Museum of ContemporaryNative Arts (mocna), Ahéhee’ for your hospitality! <3
About the Models
Sivan Alyra Rose
Sivan Alyra Rose, born Sivan Alyra Rose Rambler, is an Apache/Puerto Rican actress, runway model and exhibited artist. Sivan is the first Native American female lead of television series "Chambers" on Netflix, starring alongside Uma Thurman and Tony Goldwyn. She was raised just outside of Phoenix, Arizona on the San Carlos Apache reservation by her mother and grandmother. She was discovered modeling at the Santa Fe Indian Market at the age of 16.
Sivan's personal alternative aesthetics highlight her glam goth style and affinity for the style of abstract art. Sivan exhibited her own skateboard art titled "Hypnotize" at the Silver and Turquoise Ball in April 2016 benefiting the Phoenix Indian Center. Sivan has been inspired by Marley Mitch (MUA), Andy Warhol, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
In August 2017, Sivan attended the Institute of American Indian Arts studying Studio Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. There she would meet student director Mark Lewis filming the short film "The Entrada" who would cast her as the lead in a horror story about a museum holding Native artifacts. By December 2017, Sivan would move to Los Angeles to transfer college, pursue her acting and modeling career.
In March 2018 casting director Rene Haynes, who Sivan met in high school, would reach out to her to audition for the lead of an American Film Institute project "Running Shadow" directed by Carlos Betancourt. "Running Shadow" is a short fiction film about a young Lakota woman battling grief over her sister's suicide and pursuing competitive running. The film released in Fall 2018.
Sivan is passionate about utilizing her platform to raise awareness about Native American issues especially the need for mental health care support and resources for Native American youth.
Follow Sivian @sivanalyrarose
Kinsale Hueston
Kinsale Hueston is a 2017-2018 National Student Poet and attends Yale University. An enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, Kinsale’s work centers on personal histories, Diné stories, and contemporary issues affecting her tribe— particularly violence against Native women and settler-colonial violence, resource extraction, and land/body relationships. She began her career at the age of 15 as a theater artist in Los Angeles, with roles in Urban Rez by Larissa FastHorse (Sicangu Lakota) and Fairly Traceable by Mary Kathryn Nagle (Cherokee). She has since appeared in Running Shadow (The American Film Institute, 2018), ACKIA (Lenape Arts Center, 2018), numerous staged readings for the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program, and narrated Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Rick Riordan Presents, 2019).
Kinsale is the recipient of the Yale Young Native Storytellers Award for Spoken Word/Storytelling, the J. Edgar Meeker Prize (May 2019, Yale University), and three National Scholastic Gold Medals for poetry and dramatic script. In February 2019, she was named one of “34 People Changing How We See the World” by Time Magazine in its Optimists Issue curated by filmmaker Ava DuVernay. In late Spring of 2018, she self-published a collection of poetry, Where I’m From: Poems from Sherman Indian School.
In November of 2019, she launched Changing Womxn Collective, a publishing platform and digital space for womxn and femmes of color, which has over 90 team members and 6,000+ community members. Her Collective has been featured by Refinery29, Youth to the People, and more. Currently, Kinsale is a 2020 Cultural Capital Fellow for the First Peoples Fund and a national Mellon Mays scholar. She is on board for the Yale Literary Magazine, does spoken word performance with WORD at Yale, and is on the Yale Slam Team.
Keep up with Kinsale at www.kinsalehueston.com or @kinsalehues
Charelle Brown
Charelle Brown is from Kewa Pueblo, New Mexico and is a recent graduate of Yale University with a bachelor’s degree in architecture. While at Yale, she co-founded Indigenous Scholars of Architecture, Design, and Planning (ISAPD) in September 2018. Through her management of the group’s social media, she secured a feature article in Architectural Digest and the spring 2019 cover of ByDESIGN Magazine. ISAPD curated Making Space for Resistance: Past Present Future, an exhibit showcased in the North Gallery in the Yale School of Architecture from August 2019 - October 5, 2019. Since graduating in May, Charelle has focused on spending time with family and olympic weightlifting. She built a weightlifting platform and continues lifting with Team Catalyst Athletics, an online team coached by Greg Everett. Her current goals include attending graduate school to pursue her passion for Indigenous architecture and design and qualifying for the 2021 USA Weightlifting’s National Under 25 Championships.
Keep up with Charelle @Charelle_barbelle