This month we sit down with Jenie Gao and Anangookwe Wolf to talk about gratitude.

From Jenie's Website:

Jenie Gao is a full-time artist, creative director, and entrepreneur. Her arts practice is based in printmaking, public art, social practice, and storytelling. She also has a niche consulting in equitable best practices and systems for cultural organizations. She strives to create records and claim space for resilient, diverse stories

From Anangookwe's Website:

Assiniboine, Dakota and Ojibwe educator, storyteller, performer, and adornment artist raised on the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Reservation. In 2019 they graduated with their BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts with an emphasis in jewelry design. Currently, Anangookwe utilizes traditional and contemporary forms of craft to interweave familial narratives in relation to cultural inheritance and present-day afflictions.

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This month we sit down with Nibiiwakamigkwe to talk about care and compassion.

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This month we sit down with Shianne Eagleheart to talk about wisdom.

Shianne is Haudenosaunee-Seneca. Her work and the Center’s programs combine Ancestral Wisdom and Earth Medicine with a sound clinical foundation based on 35 years of experience in what truly heals the human spirit. Her vision for the future is to continue to support the development of the Healing Circle and Community Healing Centers throughout the United States and abroad, with a return to honoring Indigenous Earth Ways that bless all Nations.

The Red Bird Center is a non-profit, Multicultural Healing Center located in Southeastern Ohio. The Center provides opportunities for healing, education, and community celebration. The Red Bird Center is also active in Restorative Justice, promoting a healing model to effectively respond to crime in America and support the development of safer communities.

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Dakota Mace tells us about how humility of her life, from art to academia - and tells us about her story as a Dine artist.

Taken From Dakota Mace's Website:

Dakota Mace (Diné) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on translating the language of Diné history and beliefs. Mace received her MA and MFA degrees in Photography and Textile Design at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her BFA in Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts. As a Diné (Navajo) artist, her work draws from the history of her Diné heritage, exploring the themes of family lineage, community, and identity. In addition, her work pushes the viewer's understanding of Diné culture through alternative photography techniques, weaving, beadwork, and papermaking.

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Denise Harrison tells us about how trust impacts all areas of her life, from parenting to activist quilting - and shares her vision for Not Your Mother's Quilting Bee.

Denise is a professor of English working in the Department of Africana Studies (AFS). As a social activist program, the AFS department interrogates social, racial, gender and class divisions with an eye on the representation and history of people of the African diaspora. Harrison examines the cultural food ways of Indigenous and diaspora Africans as a lens by which to examine the politics of “race” class, gender, and sexual minorities in American society. Prof. Harrison also teaches in the Honors College. Her course on Shakespeare interrogates the intersections of “race,” class, gender, and sexual minorities in the Early Modern era and how Shakespeare’s plays can be re/presented in our postmodern world. Harrison is also a social activist quilt artist from Akron, Ohio. She conceives quilts that trouble the viewer, she is reminded of Audre Lorde’s quote “We cannot live without our lives and your silence will not protect you.”

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What did we learn today from our talk with Shianne Eagleheart. In our after show recap we talk about the episode, have a laugh, and ask each what we learned today. Let us know in the comments about what you thought and what you learned in the episode.

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In the second episode of My One Question is Dakota Mace sits down with us to speak about humility. In our after show recap we talk about the episode, have a laugh, and ask each what we learned today. Let us know in the comments about what you thought and what you learned in the episode.

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First Episode Comes out April 28th 2022

Welcome to My One Question Is...

This is a monthly podcast at the intersection of art, race, story, and hope.

We’re calling it an adventure in listening. We’re asking questions. We’re amplifying the voices of people who are using their talents for good. We want to break down cultural barriers through art and conversation.

My One Question is is funded by a technology grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's 2021 Knight Arts Challenge. All funding for the project is being handled by The Kent State University Foundation, we are grateful for their partnership and generosity.