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Wellness on Wheels: When Art, Healing, and Community Collide
FELLOW FEATURE: Learn about the work of ILI Year 6 Fellow April Fitzpatrick, “Pineapple Lady” through her own story about “Wellness on Wheels (W.O.W.)”
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ILI Fellow Almeta Whitis is Celebrated for a Lifetime of Storytelling
ILI Year 5 alum Almeta Whitis is a storyteller, writer, poet and teaching artist, whose life work involves exploring, presenting and honoring cultural connections between
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Expanding the Web: ILI Sparks a Collaboration
In Sept 2024, The FlipCharts trekked out to FPF’s Oglala Lakota Artspace to record new songs produced by ILI Year 3 Alum Talon Bazille Ducheneaux.
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Moving Toward a Vibrant Black Arts and Culture Ecosystem
ILI Year 5 Fellow DeMarcus Akeem Suggs shares his own experience modeling arts & culture ecosystems, his visionary leadership in Black arts, and how interculturality
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Beyond Borders: Dominicans Love Haitians Movement’s 2023 Nou Akoma Nou Sinèrji Haitian Dominican Transnational Film Festival
Guest writer Amanda Ortiz shares the story ILI Year 5 Fellow Clarivel Ruiz’s “Dominicans Love Haitians Movement’s Transnational Film Festival.”
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ILI Fellow Joeseph Arnoux Reflects
ILI Year 5 Fellow Joeseph Arnoux created a video story of his reflections on being in the Intercultural Leadership Institute year-long program.
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Lehuanani Ah Nee ILI Fellow Reflection
ILI Year 5 Fellow Lehuanani Ah Nee created a series of videos reflections after returning home to Keaukaha Hawaiʻi from the Sipp Culture ILI Cultural
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The Black Doll Project
ILI Year 5 Fellow Clarivel Ruiz started the Black Doll Project is an act of affirmation that sends Black Dolls to children in the Caribbean
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Composing While Black: ILI Alum Marshall Trammel Update
Marshall is noted in this new book about Afrodiasporic contemporary music and recently traveled to work with the International Music Institute in Darmstadt Germany.
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Year 4 ILI Fellow Robin Garcia Curates New Exhibition
Year 4 ILI alum Robin Garcia has co-created a new exhibition at USC in Los Angeles. Of Seed, Soil, and Stars – Mediations on Land,
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It All Starts Here! Sipp Culture ILI Cultural Intensive #1 for Year 5
For the first in-person ILI intensive of ILI Year 5, the Fellows, ILI Partners and team gathered in Jackson, MS. Hosted by ILI Partner the
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Wayfinding: PA’I ILI Cultural Intensive #1 for Year 6
For the first in-person ILI intensive of ILI Year 6, the Fellows, ILI Partners and team gathered in Honolulu, HI. Hosted by ILI Partner PA’I
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Connecting to Lakota Lands: ILI Cultural Intensive #3 for Year 5
For the third and final ILI Year 5 cultural intensive, Fellows, Partners, and team gathered on Lakota Lands. Hosted by First Peoples Fund, the 4+
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ROOTING in New Orleans: ILI Cultural Intensive #2 for Year 5
For the second in-person ILI intensive of ILI Year 5 hosted by Alternate ROOTS, the Fellows, ILI Partners made their way to New Orleans, LA.
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Met Museum Collects Suzy González Zines (including ILI Zines!)
Congratulations to Year 2 ILI alum Suzy González for being included in the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A collection
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Emmy Award for Alum Noel Quiñones!
Congratulations to ILI Year 2 Alum Noel Quiñones for winning an Emmy for his contribution to El legado de la Poesía Puertorriqueña (Legacy of Puerto
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ILI Participant Reflections: Rani Pramesti
We recently caught up with Rani Pramesti to talk about their experience in ILI Year 3, interculturalism, and their current artistic work in the field.
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Carrie Brunk Honored with Sallie Bingham Award
Congratulations to ILI Senior Advisor Carrie Brunk for being awarded the 2021 Sallie Bingham Award by the Kentucky Foundation for Women! “My goal is to
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ILI Alumni Arturo Herrera Interviews Artist Josué Emmanuel Fierro
Year 1 Participant Arturo Herrera recently interviewed and reflected on the work of artist Josué Emmanuel Fierro for the ILI Voices blog and his own
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ILI Participant Livestream: 8/25/21 “Phoning It In”
Open Call for Stories Phoning It In: Acts of Artist Activism Feat. Marlo De Lara/Carol Zou Livestream: Wednesday, August 25th on https://www.twitch.tv/coaxialarts 6PM PST As artists and cultural makers,
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Fellow Story: Tiffany Vega-Gibson
We recently interviewed ILI Year 3 Fellow Tiffany Vega-Gibson about her experience in arts & culture leadership and her hopes for her ILI experience. Please
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ILI Alum Event: 8/21/21 Marshall Trammell’s Ebonics Native Land Acknowledgement #1
Pro Arts in partnership with AGENCY Oakland invites you to The LOOM, on August 21st, 2021, at 6:00PM for a public site-tuning event, entitled Ebonics Native
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ILI Alum Event: COVID Stories: When the Hugs Went Away
Check out the new work by #ILIAlumni Jonathan Clark! The Carpetbag Theatre, Inc. Re-Emerges from the Global Pandemic with an Original Virtual Production, COVID Stories:
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ILI Alumni Event: An Offering to Unsettle Settlement
“How does one make sense of their own participation in the world, taking into consideration pasts that have formed legacies of colonialism and disenfranchisement? This
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JUNETEENTH 2020: Sound & Visual Meditation
SPECIAL ONLINE PRESENTATION: SUPER BLUES color Lux bath New work from ILI Alum muthi reed. Presented on this year’s Juneteenth celebration of freedom and resilience, Scribe
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ILI Zines Now Online!
Suzy González and César Ramos – ILI Fellows from Year 2 – teamed up to lead the creation of zines from each of the three
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New Book Draws on ILI Experience
Drawing the Ensō by Shin Yu Pai, ILI Fellow Alum I chose the title Ensō for my forthcoming book because it expresses both the practice of trying to
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CELEBRATING “HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE MONTH”
Photo: Pūnana Leo o Mānoa Hawaiian Medium Education Preschool students attending the “2017 Ke Au Hawaiʻi- Year of the Hawaiian” ceremony at Washington Place, Honolulu.
LEADING THE WAY TO STATUE REMOVAL
ILI Fellow Joel Garciawas an integral part of the community effort to remove the Columbus statue from Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles. Learn
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DECOLONIZING DEATH
ILI Fellow Tara Moses played a key role in decolonizing Tulsa’s Day of the Dead activities in Fall 2018. Here’s how her involvement and her