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ACC Fashion Design Event : Native American designer
and artist, Nan Blassingame
ACC Fashion Design is excited to announce a special guest designer this Friday, December 2 at 11 am.
Native American designer and artist, Nan Blassingame will be visiting our classroom to share her story of how she uses fashion to educate people about Native American culture.
She has shown at Fashion Week in both New York and Austin and has created one-of-a-kind dresses for Austin Powwow and Miss North Dakota. She currently has a permanent display at the Bullock Museum and uses her fashion designs to educate Austin about the indigenous community.
Please join us this Friday to meet this talented designer, have a chance to ask her questions, and see up close, some of her amazing creations.
Event Details
Date: Friday, Dec 2nd, 2022
Time: 11 am
Location: Fashion Design classroom HLC 4.1420.15 - just down the hall next to the bookstore.
Contact:
Victoria Taylor, Department Chair
Professor Fashion Design
victoria.taylor@austincc.edu
Office: 512-223-7906
Cultural Colloquy: Land Acknowledgements and Intersectionality
of Native American and Latino Cultures
Liberal Arts Area of Studies
ACC Center for Latin American Studies - El Centro
Teaching and Learning Excellence Division
Truth Racial Healing and Transformation Center
We invite community members to join us for a conversation about the history and practice of land acknowledgment. As a tradition with roots centuries old, land acknowledgment serves to recognize displacement from ancestral homelands as a result of settler activities, including here in central Texas.
It is also significant in raising awareness around the complexity of Native histories, contemporary Native life, and honoring indigenous land stewardship.
Event Details
Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Reception: 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Panel Discussion and Q&A: 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Center
6101 Highland Campus Dr.
Building 4000, Room 4.2205.
Austin, Texas 78752
Contact:
Grant Potts, Department Chair of Philosophy, Religion and Humanities, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Jean Lauer, Professor of Philosophy, Religion and Humanities
Musical Performance and Storytelling
ACC Music Department
Teaching and Learning Excellence Division
Dr. Aaron Pyle is a Native American flute player, storyteller, and lecturer whose storytelling presentations interweave music with both traditional and contemporary tales. Aaron Pyle is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and an active contributor in the Central Texas Intertribal community. He is a member of the Four Winds Intertribal Society, serves as Co-Chair of the Sacred Springs Powwow, and is a member of the Indigenous Cultures Institute’s Board of Elders.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music and Anthropology from Texas State University, a Master’s of Science in Social Work from the University of Texas at Austin, and a PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy from the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on Native American experiences in education.
Event Details
Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Time: 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Recital Hall, ACC Highland Campus
Contact:
Shane Anderson, Music Department Chair
Now in our 29th year, the Austin Powwow and American Indian Heritage Festival is truly a unique Austin event. See hundreds of Native American dancers and singers from across the country and experience a fascinating look into this rich culture.
Shop at our large Native Market and enjoy traditional foods at our Native Food Court. The public is invited and everyone is welcome. This is a family-friendly event and absolutely no drugs or alcohol are permitted.
Event Details
Date: Saturday, November 12, 2022, 9am till 9pm
Location: Travis County Expo Center, 7311 Decker Ln, Austin, TX 78724
Tickets: Adults $7 online, $10 at the gate, Kids under 12 FREE, Parking FREE
For information and tickets visit www.austinpowwow.net
Past External and Community Events
Since the 2020 census, the number of Native Americans in the country has increased greatly. Because of this, there has been a push from many indigenous leaders and advocates to push for more Indigenous material in school curriculum. Doing so not only helps Native students feel connected to their identity, but also showcases to all students the contributions that Native Americans have had and to encourage respect for the sovereign rights of Native Nations. This webinar will focus on the importance of this history, what outcomes it can have for both Native & non-Native students, and the ways this issue can be improved in education systems.
Event Details
Virtual - Register & Use Zoom Link to Join
Date: Nov 22, 2022 @ 01:00 PM CST
Presented by: The Hunt Institute
Shared by Daniel J. Chupe-O'Hanlon
To Relate - Digital Exhibit
Oakwood Cemetery Chapel presents To Relate, a digital exhibit featured this October through December 2022, which seeks to relate Indigenous views on Native American historical events in Texas.
To Relate reveals the true homelands of Native American Tribes who were Indigenous to Texas and explains their defined relationships to one another. It also relates how the word Texas which comes from an Indigenous word teja meaning ally or friend, originated from a collaborative relationship between tribes and settlers. The word was adopted by the Spanish to become Tejas and then, Texas.
The exhibit features an original video about the National Park Service Historic Trail that goes through Austin, called El Camino Real de los Tejas. In the video, Archaeologists Sergio and Melinda Iruegas, geographer Steven Gonzales, Nicole Netherton of Travis Audubon, and musician Brian Beattie help us see these familiar places with new eyes and relate the contemporary experience of Austin to the Indigenous experience of Austin. The El Camino Real de los Tejas original Native American trail routes developed into roads and highways, travel through cemeteries, parks, and golf courses, and are near high schools, freshwater springs, and recreation areas which are actively used today.