Featured Artist
Every quarter, we feature an artist or cultural creative on our website and on social media channels. Featured Artists are selected based on how they intersect with our vision to give voice and shape and movement to the new world emerging from the edges. Priority is given to edgewalkers - those on the margins of mainstream culture, in the cracks of cultural emergence. "Art" includes any medium - visual, performed, written, moving, spoken, etc. If you, or someone you know, aligns with this vision, and would like to be featured, please get in touch with us!
Featured Artist for Summer/Fall 2022
Kahstoserakwathe Paulette Moore
I am a filmmaker, podcaster, educator and Kanyen’kehà:ka (Mohawk) language speaker and Six Nations of the Grand River enrolled citizen. Recently I became a 2021 media fellow with the Banff SPARK accelerator program for women owners of media organization. I founded my media organization The Aunties Dandelion in 2019 with the intent to revitalize communities through stories of land, language and relationships. My background is in mainstream films - I created nearly 30 hours of documentaries with organizations that include National Geographic, Discovery Channel, PBS and others. I continue making films through my organization including two recent speculative arts narrative films. VeRONAka (2020) is a fictionalized account of how our Mohawk clan mothers gave COVID-19 a Mohawk name so we may be in relationship with the illness, understand why it is here and ask it to leave. Rahyne, a short animated film (2021) was made in conjunction with Black Speculative Arts Movement Canada and featured a non-binary Afro-Indigenous youth whose identity is united through Black and Mohawk water spirits.
PODCAST
The Aunties Dandelion
The Aunties Dandelion is a media arts organization and a transformative space informed by traditional Onkwehon:we (original peoples’) teachings. A collective of storytellers who are co-creating and revitalizing an expansive global community through stories of land, language and relationships.​
recording the podcast with the Pueblo Resurgents - young farmers building food sovereignty and resilience in Isleta Pueblo in New Mexico
Listen to the most recent episode of The Aunties Dandelion interviewing Kaluhyanu:wes Michelle Schenandoah after her visit as a part of a Canadian Indigenous delegation to the Vatican to address the ongoing devastation of the Catholic Church’s residential schools on Onkwehón:we people.
Film
VeRONAka, a short film (2020)
This film a fictional take of the true the fact that Kanyen'kehà:ka (Mohawk) clan mother Wakeratste Louis McDonald gave COVID-19 a Mohawk name so we can be in relationship to the virus, understand why it is here and invite it to leave.This film was featured at seven film festivals including Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, Weengushk Film Festival, Red Nation Film Festival, Haudenosaunee Filmmakers Festival and others.
The Eagle and the Condor: From Standing Rock with Love (2018)
This film a fictional take of the true the fact that Kanyen'kehà:ka (Mohawk) clan mother Wakeratste Louis McDonald gave COVID-19 a Mohawk name so we can be in relationship to the virus, understand why it is here and invite it to leave.This film was featured at seven film festivals including Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, Weengushk Film Festival, Red Nation Film Festival, Haudenosaunee Filmmakers Festival and others.
From Wisconsin with Love -
People of Harvest (2016)
Ojibwe tribes in Northern Wisconsin lead a successful multi-cultural fight based in educating about food sovereignty. The group pushed back what would have been the world's largest open pit taconite mine across pristine wilderness that feeds and sustains the local residents
Zine
LISTEN TO YOUR AUNTIES
Listen to Your Aunties, a project of The Aunties Dandelion, is a new zine by
Paulette Moore and colleagues. The artwork to the left is the featured cover painting by Nikaronhya'a Dawn Hill (Kanyen'kehà:ka) of this first edition entitled, "Reflections With Our Relatives" covering the first season of The Aunties Dandelion.
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The Zine covers each episode, accompanied by artwork, a collaboration of kin offering their gifts and services to the whole.
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"In Kanyen’ké:ha one of our favorite terms is
kasa’stenserakò:wa sa’oyéren. It describes the great and
natural intelligent energy that calls us to contribute our
gifts and skills into an expansive collective - and is
delighted when we do so. You will see that great,
intelligent energy reflected in this publication. That
energy will continue to expand as you take the time to
listen to our episodes, read the accompanying
reflections and appreciate the art of our collective
adventure."
Self Portrait, 2015. Acrylic. Nikaronhya'a Dawn Martin, Kayen'kehà:ka.
Edgewalking
"I am an Edgewalker who stepped away from mainstream media organizations like Discovery Channel and National Geographic to elevate stories by and about my own Indigenous communities. Through my work I follow the model of the Pueblo migration circle - where the individual is called to (edge) walk out into the world to gather knowledge and relationships which benefits their home community when they return with a richness of experience. The stories shared through my films and podcast navigate how Indigenous world view both challenges and intersects with an overculture that generally does not tolerate interrogation. As a fluent Kanyenkehà:ka (Mohawk) speaker I edgewalk between Western and Indigenous cultures, philosophy and ways of being in the world."