Label Type
Cultural/Historical ContextLabel
"Dr. Annie Ross. Daughter of a traditional Maya Mother and WWII veteran father. Began education at home with plants, animals, art, hand work, storytelling, and history in Compton, California. Formal training in studio art, art history, ethnology, and folklore. Worked with the Kodiak Area Native Association, museums, art galleries, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and the University of California. On-going working relationships with friends from many First Nations communities regarding ethnology, history, aesthetic practice(s), folklore and narrative.
Practice
Studio work; sustainable indigenous traditional arts and crafts; First Nations Art, Ethnohistory, and History; Poetry, folklore, and poetics; Indigenous Environmental logic, social and environmental justice, grass-roots community movements and organizations; nuclearism and the American west; the self and community in Home/Land."