From: Tiffany Tuttle <[log in to unmask]>

 

Greetings Friends & Colleagues,

 

Please join us for a consciousness shifting presentation and talk with Indigenous Social Justice Speaker, Matika Wilbur.  Learn more about Matika and her work below.  Check out the attached flyer with the date, time and location, also listed here: 

 

Thursday, February 3rd

4-5PM 

Silver Pavillion, Alumni House

 

Bring your students, colleagues, family and friends. And please distribute widely on your list serves and social media platforms.  Thank you.

 

 

Hope to see you there,

 

Tiffany Tuttle

Pre-doctorate MSW Candidate

First Nations Fellow

University of Vermont

 

 

 

A little about Project 562 - Created by Matika Wilbur, Project 562 is a multi-year national photography project dedicated to photographing over 562 federally recognized tribes in The United States resulting in an unprecedented repository of imagery and oral histories that accurately portrays contemporary Native Americans. This creative, consciousness-shifting work will be widely distributed through national curricula, artistic publications, exhibitions, and online portals. The Project 562 Book will be released this fall through Penguin Random House and Ten Speed Press.

 

Matika's Bio - Matika Wilbur is from the Swinomish and Tulalip Tribes. She is the founder and photographer of Project 562 with a mission to Change The way We see Native America. Since Project 562’s genesis in 2011 Matika has journeyed 400,000 miles to create images of Native Americans from more than 500 sovereign nations, visiting and photographing Indigenous folks from all 50 states. The result is an unprecedented repository of images and oral histories that accurately portrays contemporary Native Americans. She currently co-hosts the popular podcast All My Relations, which invites guests to explore the connections between land, creatural relatives, and one another.

 

A little about the talk - Over 10 years ago, Matika Wilbur began to develop a body of imagery and cultural representations of Native peoples to counteract one-dimensional stereotypes and to create positive Indigenous role models. In this talk, learn about the ways Matika Wilbur is changing the way we see Native America through her work. 


Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) is one of the nation's leading photographers, based in the Pacific Northwest. She earned her BFA from Brooks Institute of Photography where she double majored in Advertising and Digital Imaging. Her Project 562 has brought Matika to over 500 tribal nations dispersed throughout all 50 U.S. states where she has taken thousands of portraits, and collected hundreds of contemporary narratives from the breadth of Indian Country all in the pursuit of one goal: To Change The Way We See Native America.


As a former educator, she realized that the representation of Native peoples in media and in learning materials as a "leathered and feathered" dying peoples deeply affected the identity and perceived potential of her students. Thus began Project 562, the mission of which is to photograph and collect stories of Native Americans from each federally-recognized tribe in the United States. Through her lens, we are able to see the vibrancy and diversity of Indian Country and in seeing we challenge stereotypical representations and begin shifting consciousness about contemporary Native America.