Wednesday, December 9, 2020
8 PM (EST) | 6 PM (MST) | 5 PM (PST)
Join us for our next Ucross Spotlight on Zoom and Facebook Live, which will feature a conversation with the most recent recipients of our Fellowships for Native American Visual Artists and Writers ANTHONY HUDSON (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde) and BRENDAN BASHAM (Diné).
The conversation will be moderated by ANDREA HANLEY (Navajo), chief curator at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian.
To register for this online event and receive the Zoom link, visit ucross.org, or click the button below. And, of course, you can watch it live on Ucross's Facebook page on December 9.
BRENDAN BASHAM (Diné) is a fiction writer, poet, educator, and a former chef, born in Alaska and raised in northern Arizona. His work has appeared in the Santa Fe Literary Review, Red Ink, Yellow Medicine Review, Juked, Cloudthroat, and Sheepshead Review. He has been awarded two Writing By Writers Fellowships, a Truman Capote Trust Fellowship, and a Tin House Fellowship. He was also a nominee for a 2016 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and a 2018 Pushcart Prize. He teaches literature and generative writing workshops at the undergraduate and graduate level. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is at work on his first novel.
ANTHONY HUDSON (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, performer, and filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon. Anthony is perhaps best known as Portland’s premier drag clown Carla Rossi, an immortal trickster whose attempts at realness almost always result in fantastic failure. Anthony & Carla host and program their film series Queer Horror - the only ongoing, exclusively LGBTQ horror screening series in the United States – at Portland’s historic Hollywood Theatre, where Anthony also serves as its Community Programmer. Anthony was named a 2018 National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, a 2018 Western Arts Alliance Native Launchpad Artist, and a 2019 Oregon Arts Commission Artist Fellow.
ANDREA R. HANLEY (Navajo) is the chief curator at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She started her career at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., as both special assistant to the director and exhibition developer/project manager. She was the fine arts coordinator/curator for the city of Tempe, the executive director of ATATL, Inc., a national service organization for Native American arts. She was the founding manager of the Berlin Gallery at the Heard Museum and the membership and program manager for the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. She currently serves on the Santa Fe arts commission, Ucross's National Advisory Council, and the Native American advisory board for New York based Voices in Contemporary Art (VoCA.) Hanley is on the Board of Directors for the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, Santa Fe Indian Market. She sits on the Native American advised fund committee for the Santa Fe Community Foundation and is on the board of directors for Santa Fe based arts space Axle Contemporary.