We are excited to announce a fantastic keynote speaker for this year’s conference, artist-educator Jason Wesaw. Read about him below!
Jason Wesaw is an educator and multi-disciplinary artist, exhibiting works in an array of media including ceramics, textiles, works on paper, and traditional cultural pieces. His projects relate stories about the Potawatomi people’s ancient and evolving connection to the Land, the Sky, the Water, and Beyond. He is dedicated to working in his Tribal community as a Peacemaker and believes strongly in the healing, empowering qualities of relationship-building through the timeless, traditional teachings of his ancestors.
Jason is Potawatomi (Turtle Clan) and lives near the historic Pokagon Potawatomi settlement of Rush Lake in southwestern Michigan. His work is in the permanent collections of the Eiteljorg Museum (IN), Grand Valley State University (MI), University of Notre Dame (IN), the Field Museum (IL), the Indiana State Museum, and many other regional institutions. He is currently showing work as a core artist in the Woven Being group exhibition at The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University and has a solo exhibition entitled Sovereign Spirits at the Tube Factory in Indianapolis.