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From April 7 to April 2025
“Celebrating Indigeneity”
Exemplifying the various forms of survivance, adaptation, and flourishment of our Indigenous communities, this exhibition is an explicit celebration of the contributors’ individual and collective connections to place and people. Each piece celebrates one’s rich and rooted connections – to where and from who one derives – that together celebrate the multiple connections that comprise each person. Weaving together our experiences and stories, these pieces collectively illustrate that to be an Indigenous student, scholar, and/or researcher in academia is not a monolithic experience but a point of connection and departure.
Featured Artists:
Taymee A. Brandon
Andrew Binder
Janelle Cronin
Ramona Dwyer
Jeremy W. James
BeKa (Rebecca) Leuschen-Kohl
Stephanie Masta
Saan Yazhi Nez
Olivia J. Palepoi
Jayvaughn Fredrick Peter
Austin M. K. Peters
Tawn M. Speetjens
Makena Thompson
Zachary Wamego
Kaanaagoot (moving shield man) Tlingit and Anishinaabe Yeíl L'uknax.ádi L’ook Hít Yadí (Raven Coho Clan of the Small Coho House), Shangukeidi Yadi (Child of the Thunderbirds)
"Celebrating Indigeneity" is curated by Olivia J. Palepoi.
This event is held in collaboration with the Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership.
Exhibition Opening: Crafting Autistic Futures
Crafting Autistic Futures
Rebecca-Eli Long
anthropologist, gerontologist, and artist
On view in the Alab
This exhibition uses knitting to materialize stories of the autistic life course that might otherwise be overlooked. The items in this exhibit combine participatory textile making research with pieces reflecting the artist's own passion for knitting. In highlighting these experiences, this exhibition seeks to share the things that matter to autistic people and contribute to more accurate understandings of autism and neurodivergence.
About the artist: Rebecca-Eli Long (they, them, theirs) is an autistic knitter and anthropologist. In demonstrating autistic meaning-making through textile narratives, Rebecca-Eli documents autistic culture and creativity. Through this work, they strive to make autistic futures–individual and collective–more possible.
Ongoing Exhibition: Crafting Autistic Futures
Crafting Autistic Futures
Rebecca-Eli Long
anthropologist, gerontologist, and artist
On view in the Alab until March 28 (Friday) during the following opening hours:
Tuesdays: 10:30-11:30 (Tuesdays)
Fridays 12:00-1:30 (Fridays)
For group/class visits outside these hours, please email alab.info@purdue.edu.
This exhibition uses knitting to materialize stories of the autistic life course that might otherwise be overlooked. The items in this exhibit combine participatory textile making research with pieces reflecting the artist's own passion for knitting. In highlighting these experiences, this exhibition seeks to share the things that matter to autistic people and contribute to more accurate understandings of autism and neurodivergence.
About the artist: Rebecca-Eli Long (they, them, theirs) is an autistic knitter and anthropologist. In demonstrating autistic meaning-making through textile narratives, Rebecca-Eli documents autistic culture and creativity. Through this work, they strive to make autistic futures–individual and collective–more possible.
Archives with a Purpose
The ALab is pleased to present its first event this Fall 2024, “Archives with a Purpose,” featuring public historian Dr. Teilhard “Ty” Paradela.
Archives with a Purpose
In this workshop, students will explore online digital archives that have been created for a particular academic, artistic, and/or advocacy purpose. They will learn how collections for these archives were organized and are exhibited to facilitate dialogue with specific audiences and to advance an overarching argument. Ultimately, the aim of this workshop is to foreground the possibilities and challenges of the online digital archive as a mode of engagement on contemporary issues.
About the Speaker
Teilhard "Ty" Paradela (they/them) is a public historian, policy analyst, community archivist, and social dramaturge. They completed their PhD in History at the University of British Columbia. Since 2015, they have been the director of the Babaylan Archive Project, an initiative to gather, catalog, and digitize primary sources on the LGBTQI+ movement in the Philippines.
For more information about the event or for questions, please email alab.info@purdue.edu.
