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
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Jennifer Minner, Department of City and Regional Planning
College of Architecture, Art and Planning
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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
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Maria Park, Department of Art
College of Architecture, Art and Planning
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Jeffrey Chusid, Department of City and Regional Planning
College of Architecture, Art and Planning
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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.