Sherri Cornett
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    • WHAT IS IT ABOUT MY MEMORY Community Engaged Installation >
      • MEMORY CARDS What Is It About My Memory
      • SOMAS What Is It About My Memory
      • EXHIBITIONS What Is It About My Memory
    • FOOD and CULTURE HUB East Helena
    • THE 2020 AWAKENING BILLINGS For Freedoms 2020 >
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Robert Hall on Blood Quantum
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Indigenous Voices Films and Filmmakers Panel
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS MMIP Community Gathering
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS REDRess Exhibit
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Seeing Patterns Exhibition
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Related Events
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Partners and Presenters
    • FOR FREEDOMS Billings >
      • FOR FREEDOMS Billings 2018 Partners and Presenters
    • COMMUNITY GROVE
    • CONVERSATIONS AMONG WOMEN
    • FLOW Interactive Exhibition and Community Project >
      • EXHIBITION Flow
      • VOICES OF THE RIVER SYMPOSIUM Flow
      • MIXING OIL and WATER Film Night and Discussion Flow
      • WORDS ON WATER: POETRY AND JAZZ IN CONCERT Flow
      • LIVING IN HARMONY ON THE YELLOWSTONE Flow
      • YOUTH OUTREACH Flow
      • READING AREAS MSUBillings Library Flow
      • YELLOWSTONE RIVER CUMULATIVE EFFECTS ANALYSIS Flow
    • POINTS OF MANY CONNECTIONS
    • QUEST Guest Art Facilitator
    • ALTITUDE 3123 >
      • EVENTS Altitude 3123
  • CURATORIAL
    • CHINA Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang 2014 >
      • ART & ARTISTS/CHINA Half the Sky
      • ART & ARTISTS/US Half the Sky
      • CULTURAL and COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS
      • DELEGATES
      • ESSAYS & ESSAYISTS
      • BLOG Half the Sky
    • UNDOCUMENTED Difference in America Today
    • GUTFREUND CORNETT ART
    • SOUTH KOREA Woman Body Seoul and Gwangju 2012
    • MATRIXXMODULATION Jon Lodge
    • PLANNED PARENTHOOD A Celebration of Expression: An Evening of Wine, Women and Art
    • WOMEN DO IT! Traveling Postcard Exhibition >
      • WOMEN DO IT Gallery
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THE 2020 AWAKENING BILLINGS
For Freedoms 
Partners and Presenters


THE 2020 AWAKENING BILLINGS HOME    INDIGENOUS FILMS & FILMMAKER'S PANEL     ROBERT HALL/BLOOD QUANTUM   ​   MMIP COMMUNITY GATHERING  REDress EXHIBIT ​   SEEING PATTERNS EXHIBITION   ​COMMUNITY GROVE   INTERTRIBAL COMMUNITY PARK   RELATED EVENTS    

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Shane de Leon is an artist, musician, activist, traveller, and owner of Billings art gallery, Kirk's Grocery. De Leon strives to balance conceptual, visual, and social art in his practice. His current show Social Glue is up at 4ZERO7 Gallery in Billings, MT. His bands Rollerball, Miss Massive Snowflake, and Shane de Leon Trio have taken him to most states and over 20 countries. People and how they relate to their past, themselves, and the future is considered in Shane's work whether  it be booking bands, watercoloring, writing songs, or collaging old handwritten letters. The experience of art is in every moment we perceive if we are perceiving it correctly.
shanedeleon.bandcamp.com
kirksgrocery.com

Role: ​Owner of Kirk's Grocery, venue for Seeing Patterns Exhibition

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Robert Hall is a Piikuni who isn’t enrolled in his tribe due to outdated methods of tribal membership rooted in scientific racism. His parents are Victor Hall and Olivia K. Davis. He grew up on the Blackfeet Rez and went to Browning Public Schools from K-12 where he is now employees as the Blackfeet Studies Coordinator. He is passionate about learning his heritage language and find himself blessed to have been taken in as a little brother by William Big Bull, who is a fluent Blackfoot speaker and Robert’s primary language teacher. Together, along with his cousin Sterling Schildt, they created a non-profit called āasāisstto Language Society. āasāisstto is focused on languages revitalization and promotes literacy within the Blackfoot Language using a very powerful writing system that was developed by William Big Bull.
Robert is also known as a friend of Rez Dogs.

Role: Interviewed by Adrian L Jawort and Russell Rowland about Blood Quantum for Native American Race Relations & Healing Series

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Adrian L. Jawort is a Northern Cheyenne Two Spirit (Hemaneh) fiction writer and journalist who resides in Billings, Montana.

Role: Co-founder of Native American Race Relations & Healing Series and interviewer with Robert Hall about Blood Quantum.

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Kirk's Grocery, established in 2018 by artist/musician Shane de Leon, is an art gallery and all ages performance space dedicated to showing contemporary art from local, regional, national, and international artists. Its philosophy of giving unusual art a platform extends to the performance space where Kirks’ hosts DIY all ages shows and events featuring everything from spoken word poetry to experimental musical performances and DIY touring musicians along with independent film and documentaries. It is located in the original Kirk's Grocery location on Minnesota Avenue in the historic Old Town area of Billings, Montana.

Kirks’ is a community oriented center for all ages and abilities and is dedicated to building a community cultural scene based around art, music, and poetry modeled off of the many European punk collectives that Shane has performed at and visited over the years.

Role: ​Venue for ​Seeing Patterns Exhibition

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 Brian Murnion is a movie producer, director, and co-founder of the Montana International Film Festival. In 2017, Brian and long-time creative collaborator Ryan Kabeary founded the Montana International Film Festival to help build and nurture a film community in Billings. Brian is currently in pre-production and development on two short films and writing his second feature-length screenplay. He and his wife now have three children who are all named after arthouse movie directors.

Role: ​Co-founder of the Montana International Film Festival and its Indigenous Voices Films and  Indigenous Filmmaker's Panel .

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NATIVE AMERICAN ACHIEVEMENT CENTER
Montana State University Billings
We provide individualized support in a caring and professional environment that respects and values our Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and all who identify as Indigenous students.
We offer:
•             Academic, Financial, Personal, and Cultural guidance
•             Mentor support
•             Connections to campus and off-campus resources
•             Virtual Cultural Events & Activities (Fall Term 2020)
•             Inter-Tribal Club
•             Free Faxing
•             Computers connected to a printer *Limited pages
•             WIFI
•             And many more…
Location:
On Campus Site, 2630 Normal Ave
City College Site Tech Building, room B008
Hours: 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

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Russell Rowland is the author of five novels, as well as 56 Counties: A Montana Journey, which is now also a radio show on NPR. He and Adrian Jawort founded the Native American Race Relations and Healing Lecture Series in Billings, Montana in 2017. He has a MA in Creative Writing from Boston University. 

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Role: Co-founder of Native American Race Relations & Healing Series and interviewer with Robert Hall about Blood Quantum

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© 2011 Sherri Cornett
  • HOME
  • WORKS
    • TRANSFORMATIONS
    • FREEDOM SERIES
    • PUBLIC ART
    • GROTTOES
    • CHRYSALIS
    • COLLABORATIONS
    • LENS BASED ART
    • ANCESTRESSES & WISE WOMEN
    • SEAFORMS
    • SHELTERS
  • PROJECTS
    • TRANSFORMATIONS at Kirks for Kirks
    • UNITAS youth art and leadership
    • WHAT IS IT ABOUT MY MEMORY Community Engaged Installation >
      • MEMORY CARDS What Is It About My Memory
      • SOMAS What Is It About My Memory
      • EXHIBITIONS What Is It About My Memory
    • FOOD and CULTURE HUB East Helena
    • THE 2020 AWAKENING BILLINGS For Freedoms 2020 >
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Robert Hall on Blood Quantum
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Indigenous Voices Films and Filmmakers Panel
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS MMIP Community Gathering
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS REDRess Exhibit
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Seeing Patterns Exhibition
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Related Events
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Partners and Presenters
    • FOR FREEDOMS Billings >
      • FOR FREEDOMS Billings 2018 Partners and Presenters
    • COMMUNITY GROVE
    • CONVERSATIONS AMONG WOMEN
    • FLOW Interactive Exhibition and Community Project >
      • EXHIBITION Flow
      • VOICES OF THE RIVER SYMPOSIUM Flow
      • MIXING OIL and WATER Film Night and Discussion Flow
      • WORDS ON WATER: POETRY AND JAZZ IN CONCERT Flow
      • LIVING IN HARMONY ON THE YELLOWSTONE Flow
      • YOUTH OUTREACH Flow
      • READING AREAS MSUBillings Library Flow
      • YELLOWSTONE RIVER CUMULATIVE EFFECTS ANALYSIS Flow
    • POINTS OF MANY CONNECTIONS
    • QUEST Guest Art Facilitator
    • ALTITUDE 3123 >
      • EVENTS Altitude 3123
  • CURATORIAL
    • CHINA Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang 2014 >
      • ART & ARTISTS/CHINA Half the Sky
      • ART & ARTISTS/US Half the Sky
      • CULTURAL and COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS
      • DELEGATES
      • ESSAYS & ESSAYISTS
      • BLOG Half the Sky
    • UNDOCUMENTED Difference in America Today
    • GUTFREUND CORNETT ART
    • SOUTH KOREA Woman Body Seoul and Gwangju 2012
    • MATRIXXMODULATION Jon Lodge
    • PLANNED PARENTHOOD A Celebration of Expression: An Evening of Wine, Women and Art
    • WOMEN DO IT! Traveling Postcard Exhibition >
      • WOMEN DO IT Gallery
  • WRITING
    • ESSAYS
    • JOURNALISM
    • BLOG Memories and Musings
    • OTHER WRITING
  • ABOUT
    • EXHIBITIONS and EVENTS
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