Connecting Communities

Indigenous Chicago and an Elder In Residence program at Carleton

A conversation with Meredith McCoy (History and American Studies) about her work with and for native communities. Some notes: in describing work she and her students did with the Newberry Library, Meredith said that nobody had previously had access to a certain priest's archival material; we should say that very few had. Carleton's Elder in Residence program has advanced since we recorded the conversation Ida Downwind joined us last term. We've also welcomed to campus our Indigenous Communities Liaison. [https://www.carleton.edu/ccce/about/news/marcy-averill-starts-september-1-as-the-indigenous-communities-liaison/] More about projects supported by our Public Works grant [https://www.carleton.edu/public-works/] here.

Art in the Powderhorn Community

I talk with Art History professor Ross Elfline about his work with artist and organizer Sam Gould on social practice art in Minneapolis's Powderhorn community.

Music at The Key

A conversation with professor of Music Andrea Mazzariello about his work connecting the music worlds of the Northfield Union of Youth at the youth-run youth center The Key with what happens "up the hill" at Carleton College.

Connecting Communities

We kick off our second series focusing on the large Mellon grant that funded the projects we'll be talking about. I talk to professor of History Susannah Ottaway, and professor of Studio Art Kelly Connole, about their leadership of the initiative called Public Works: Arts and Humanities Connecting Communities.

Goat Islands in the Mediterranean

A conversation with Alex Knodell, Classics and Archaeology, and his Student Research Partners MJ Fielder-Jellsey and Sam Wege about their work on the Small Cycladic Islands Project [https://smallcycladicislandsproject.org/].