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Engaged Opportunity Grants

Socially Engaged Art and Indigenous, Urban and Environmental Histories

Providing the opportunity for cultural exchange among an Aboriginal Australian artist, members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the Cornell community

Jonathan Jones is an artist and member of the Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi Nations in Southeastern Australia. In 2016, he was selected for the Kaldor Public Art Projects (KPAP) series in Sydney. His ambitious public art installation Barrangal Dyara (skin and bones) was a critique of the misrepresentation and erasure of Aboriginal history, and a powerful statement of hope and regeneration. A central part of that installation was community involvement, including the participation of Aboriginal elders, university students, scholars in a wide range of disciplines and the public. In another recent project, he collected contributed bird feathers from the public and incorporated them into art on the plight of Australian birds. This project team is bringing Jones to Cayuga Nation homelands on the Cornell University campus and to other Haudenosaunee communities for cultural exchanges.

Topics: Arts, Communication, Media and Design; Culture, Language and History

The Team

  • Jennifer Minner, Department of City and Regional Planning

    College of Architecture, Art and Planning

  • Jolene Rickard, Department of History of Art and Visual Studies; American Indian and Indigenous Studies

    College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; College of Arts and Sciences; College of Architecture, Art and Planning

  • Maria Park, Department of Art

    College of Architecture, Art and Planning

  • Jeffrey Chusid, Department of City and Regional Planning

    College of Architecture, Art and Planning

  • Urszula Piasta-Mansfield, American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program

    College of Arts and Sciences

  • Martin Abbott, city and regional planning PhD student
  • Skye Hart, MRP ’19
  • Leigh Scudder, MRP ’19
  • Dylan Stevenson, city and regional planning PhD student
  • Community partner:  History Center in Tompkins County
  • Community partners:  Contacts include Onondaga youth student group at the Lafayette School, the Onondaga Nation farm, the Cayuga Learning Center at Seneca Falls, and Ganondagan, a Seneca arts and culture center

Engaged Opportunity Grants

Supporting a wide range of community-engaged learning projects, from student leadership programs and partnership building to events and conference travel. Open to all faculty and staff.

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