Art of the Rural
Podcast Description
The Art of the Rural podcast highlights the work of individuals & organizations across rural America & Indian Country. Join us for conversations expressing visions and futures across the wide field of non-urban art, culture, and community.Founded in 2010, Art of the Rural is a collaborative arts non-profit organization that works to resource artists & culture bearers to build the field, change narratives, and bridge divides. Learn more and support our work at artoftherural.org
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast embraces a wide range of topics focused on rural arts, community development, and cultural narratives, exemplified by episodes such as Faye Dant's exploration of Black history in Hannibal, MO, and discussions on the impact of art in non-urban settings. Themes like cross-cultural understanding, historical preservation, and community empowerment are prevalent throughout the series.
The Art of the Rural podcast highlights the work of individuals & organizations across rural America & Indian Country. Join us for conversations expressing visions and futures across the wide field of non-urban art, culture, and community.
Founded in 2010, Art of the Rural is a collaborative arts non-profit organization that works to resource artists & culture bearers to build the field, change narratives, and bridge divides. Learn more and support our work at artoftherural.org
This two-part episode was produced in partnership with5 Plain Questions and Eleven Warrior Arts. Hosted by Joe Williams, 5 Plain Questions is a podcast that proposes 5 general questions to Native American and Indigenous artists, creators, musicians, writers, movers and shakers, and culture bearers.
In this episode, meet Penny Kagigebi. Penny is a Two-Spirit queer artist, curator, and community collaborator. She is Crane Clan from White Earth Nation Ojibwe in northwestern Minnesota. For years, Penny has worked at the intersection of queer activism and cultural healing, teaching and practicing porcupine quillwork and birchbark basketry to continue the lineages of these practices.
Recently, Penny curated Queering Indigeneity in collaboration with the Minnesota Museum of American Art. This multi-year, multi-generational project celebrates the vision and diversity of Two-Spirit, Native queer, gender expansive artists in the Upper Midwest.
Her work has been shown across the Upper Midwest since 2018, supported by grants from the Region 2 Arts Council Anishinaabe Arts Initiative, the Lake Regions Arts Council, and the Minnesota State Arts Board, and recognized with fellowships like First Peoples Funds Cultural Capital and the Emerging Curators Institute. She also serves as co-vice chair for the Mahnomen Arts Initiative in Mahnomen, Minnesota, quietly doing the patient necessary work for tending culture back to life.
EpisodeResources
- Episode transcript
- Episode webpage
- Penny Kagigebi’s Facebook & Instagram
- Queering Indigeneity at the Minnesota Museum of American Art
- Two-Spirit Stories at Textile Center (Minneapolis)
- Rural-Urban Exchange, an initiative of Art of the Rural
- Artists mentioned:
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Art of the Rural is honored to support 5 Plain Questions. We are grateful to individual donors across the country, the Ford Foundation, and Good Chaos for making these conversations possible. Learn more about our work and show your support at artoftherural.org
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