UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (TX)

Map of Texas Colorado River from Colorado River Alliance.

EVENT: Water as Muse & Collaborator in Community-based Arts Practice

LOCATION: University of Texas at Austin (online)

DATE: October 4, 2023

EVENT DESCRIPTION: Water has always existed as a paradox. It enacts both destruction and creation, it heals as well as harms. It shapes the land by both carrying away and leaving behind. Water tells the stories of the earth over and over again. Artists are among many who remind us to continually listen and remember: not only does water sustain the communities of life on earth, but living bodies, including human ones, are themselves bodies of water. Artistic practice, particularly that which is rooted in community, can draw us into this remembering, into an ethic of care that extends to all life. Join us for this panel discussion that brings together multidisciplinary artists who work with water as creator and collaborator in its own right, strengthening our bonds and commitments to the water that all depend on.

PANELISTS: Gretchen E. Henderson, moderator, with fellow panelists María F. Rocha, Allison Orr, and Carolina Osorio Gil, with thanks to Jonathan Lowell for the invitation.

Thanks to the University of Texas at Austin's Planet Texas 2050.

For more about the event, click here.

Land Acknowledgement (from the University of Texas at Austin): (I) We would like to acknowledge that we are meeting on the Indigenous lands of Turtle Island, the ancestral name for what now is called North America. Moreover, (I) We would like to acknowledge the Alabama-Coushatta, Caddo, Carrizo/Comecrudo, Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Kickapoo, Lipan Apache, Tonkawa and Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo, and all the American Indian and Indigenous Peoples and communities who have been or have become a part of these lands and territories in Texas. Read more here.
 

Maps at header and footer from Colorado River Alliance. Entry tile shows historic map of the Rio Grande River from Perry-Castañeda Library's Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin. More here.

WATERSHED

Texas Colorado River—Matagorda Bay—Gulf of Mexico—Atlantic Ocean