Join O’Maste-win Foster for a virtual discussion about the inspiration and experience that have brought them to this point.
When: Wednesday, Sept 9, 2027 at Noon
Where: Online
Cost: Free
Register Here for the online event: https://form.jotform.com/252436280155050
Upon registration, a meeting link will be sent to you.
About the Artist:
O’Maste-win Foster
Credentials : BFA : Media Arts - Filmmaking | BC : Entertainment Management
In progress: MFA : Media Arts | MBC: Entrepreneurship
The land, my community and the evolution of Indigenous adaptivity or human habit are a few topics in which I interact with on a daily basis. Often theorizing about creative applications of technological storying telling tools conveying information that can be manipulated or changed over time. Traditional art forms, fabrication, film, events, workshops, are of many ways in which stories get translated. I investigate narratives in the creative adaptation of Indigenous people and their relationship with the natural world by formulating futuristics artworks with distorted imagery and culturally significant symbolism. Education is a way for me to facilitate those applications safely and be able to stick to my cultural intentions through kinship practices in the arts, entertainment, and advocacy.
Outside of my personal creative practice, I’m usually providing services to nonprofits, community collectives and events with a curating approach in Traditional Kinship Networks ( TKN ). TKN’s are identified pilers of support, traced back to Traditional Ecological knowledge and other frameworks of Indigenous methodology in the sciences, arts, land, and more. By inviting different specialties, identities and culture expression, production becomes more than an event but an interactive experience with in itself.
Indigenous Art, Indigenous Minds is a project of Open AIR’s Indigenous Initiatives Committee, established to elevate Indigenous Leadership and creative practices in Montana and beyond. All presentations are available on Open AIR’s YouTube Channel.