I am new to Evergreen and am teaching within Indigenous Arts. My Lingít name is Xéetl'ee, and I am of the Kiks.ádi Clan (Raven/Frog) and Kaxhátjaa Hít [Shattering Herring House] of Sheet’ká [Sitka, Alaska]. Women of my clan are known as Kaxhátjaashaa [Herring Ladies] and this responsibility is central to my work. The places I call home are Sheet’ká, California (Chumash and Ohlone Land), and Berlin, Germany.
My art practice includes dance, media, drawing, and community-based research creation. I have dance training in many forms and contexts, and movement is also my entry point to filmmaking and drawing. For the last 5 years my work has centered the rematriation of Herring Lady embodied protocols with Yaaw [Pacific Herring] to co-create ecosystems. My work crosses into critical Indigenous Studies, Improvisation and Performance Studies, and Feminist Science and Technology Studies, focusing on embodiment and relationality to land, water, the more-than-human, and technology.
Education
M.A., Native American Studies, University of California-Davis, 2021; B.A., Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley, 2011.
Teaching Style
I believe students already come with a wealth of experience and knowledge connected to places, people, and practices that have shaped them. My teaching aims to support students to make connections from their own point of relation to the materials and methods I share, in order to move towards their unique future pathways. I love Evergreen's interdisciplinary model and look forward to being in a learning community to think, move, and create across boundaries.