Artist in Residence: Conversation with an Elder and an Artist

American Indian, Artist in Residence, collaboration, community, discussion, Education, indigenous knowledge, Jon Thunder, Jonathan Thunder, Kinship and Responsibility, Native American, Ojibwe, Oneida, shared voices, storytelling, University Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Join us for a conversation at the EQI Fire Circle, outside of Merrill Hall on October 16th from 6:30-7:30pm. Mark Denning (enrolled member of the Oneida Nation, who also has Ojibwe, Stockbridge Munsee, and Menominee ancestry), will be teaching our… Read More

Indigenous Felt Knowledge Festival

American Indian, Artist in Residence, collaboration, Education, identity, indigenous knowledge, Kinship and Responsibility, shared voices, storytelling, University Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Join the American Indian Student Center, Electa Quinney Institute, and Sociocultural Programming for our Indigenous Felt Knowledge Festival in the Union Concourse from 11:00-5:00. We will be featuring Native food vendors, craft-makers, and performers. We will also have craft workshops,… Read More

The Ojibwe Night Sky

Aanishnaabemowin, American Indian, collaboration, constellations, indigenous knowledge, Ojibwe, shared voices, stars, storytelling

Please join us for a conversation with our Artist in Residence (AIR) Sam Zimmerman and Language Instructor Michael Zimmerman Jr. about constellations of the night sky through an Ojibwe lens.

Celebratory Lunch with Pat Northrup

collaboration, Education, indigenous knowledge, shared voices, storytelling

Join us for lunch and casual conversation with Pat Northrup, who obtained her Indigenous Arts in Business, Interdisciplinary degree, Bachelor of Science from UW-Superior in December of 2022 at the age of 72. Feel free to share this with anyone… Read More

Conversation with an Elder and an Artist: Diane Amour and Sam Zimmerman

collaboration, Education, indigenous knowledge, native scholars, Ojibwe, potawatomi, storytelling

Please join us for our opening event to introduce the American Indian Student Center’s (AISC) and the Electa Quinney Institute’s (EQI) inaugural Artist in Residence, Sam Zimmerman/Zhaawanoogiizhik (Grand Portage Ojibwe direct descendant, Crane Clan). Sam and the former director of… Read More