The panel will present examples of survival and resistance from three distinct cultures where the visual arts are centered in creative acts of acknowledging, confronting and healing generational traumas caused by settler-colonial erasure, displacement, domination and repression. Panelists include: Candice Hopkins, “Forge Project and the Radical Potential of Non-colonial Spaces”; Susan e, “I Witness Silwan: Murals, Tourism, and Resistance to Ethnic Cleansing in Occupied Jerusalem”; and Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak, “Bearing Witness to Histories of Genocide in Ukraine”; and discussant John Halaka.
Panel 6: The Art of Survival and Resistance
Friday April 11
3:00 PM
4:30 PM