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Art piece that shows soil, roots, and growth with symbols of regeneration overlayed

Arts & Culture

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, Body, Resistance, and Regeneration will be open to the public in June through July 9th, 2023. The exhibition asks, “How does the impact of colonial extractive processes and resulting diasporic related traumas move us towards reimagining and recreating right relationship with lands and bodies?”

ILI May 23, 2023

ILI News

COVID Relief Impact Study Released

In March, 2023, the ILI founding partners Alternate ROOTS, First Peoples Fund, NALAC, PA’I Foundation, and Sipp Culture released a COVID Relief Impact Study to report on and evaluate the impact of the program to secure and distribute emergency funds during the pandemic.

ILI April 18, 2023

ILI Year 4 Fellows at ILI Hawai'i intensive with hand printed bags using traditional techniques

ILI Hawaii/PA'I

The Moʻolelo of ILI in Hawai’i 2023

For the second in-person ILI intensive, the ILI Year 4 Fellows, ILI Partners and team gathered on the Big Island of Hawai’i. Hosted by ILI Partner PA’I Foundation, the 4-day intensive started on the west coast area of Kona and wrapped up in the east coast town of Hilo. From beaches, to forests to sacred volcanic mountain sites, the gathering brought the Fellows and attending ILI community together for arts & cultural learning, deep discussion, and understanding through hands-on experience and direct storytelling.

ILI March 28, 2023

Monna Morton Hilo beach photo by Ennis Carter

Fellow Reflections

My ILI Journey

ILI Year 4 Fellow Monna Morton reflects on her ILI Journey. I have been trying to find the time to gather my thoughts, feelings, and emotions to write about my fellowship opportunity. The journey began in the spring of 2022 and lasted through January 2023. It has been one I’ll never forget.

Monna Morton March 7, 2023

ILI Year 4 Fellows attend in-person ILI ROOTS intensive in North Carolina

ILI in the South/ROOTS

Returning and Reconnecting

After nearly 6 months of virtual intercultural exploration, the ILI Year 4 Fellows and FamILI finally got to come together for the first of two in-person weekend intensives. Hosted by ILI partner Alternate ROOTS, this in-person learning and community experience was held at Franklinton Center at Bricks in Whitakers, North Carolina (Lumbee, Skaruhreh/Tuscarora, and Saponi Territories).

ILI December 25, 2022

Covers of a collection of Zines from Suzy González

Arts & Culture

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 of all of the zines that Suzy has ever been involved in publishing are now documented at the Met!

ILI November 10, 2022

Arts & Culture

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 Rican Poetry)!

ILI November 1, 2022