Join the Center for Craft and 2022 Craft Research Fund Artist Fellow Aram Han Sifuentes for a special Craft Research Talks: Community, Tradition, and Culture a UNC Asheville Humanities Common Lecture on Wednesday, November 15, from 11:00 - 12:00 pm ET!

Han Sifuentes is a social practice and fiber artist, writer, and educator who works to center immigrant and disenfranchised communities.

This event is in conjunction with the exhibition Preservers, Innovators, and Rescuers of Culture in Chiapas, on view at the Center for Craft’s Bresler Family Gallery from November 17, 2023 to July 13, 2024. Preservers features eleven weavings by acclaimed Indigenous artisanas (artists) from Chiapas, Mexico, commissioned by Han Sifuentes, as part of their 2022 Craft Research Fund Artist Fellowship to understand the position of garments and textiles of Chiapas.

Han Sifuentes will be in conversation with interdisciplinary artist and ritualist Luis Alvaro Sahagun Nuño for a discussion on the relationship between culture preservation, community, tradition, and artist-led practices. The panel will be moderated by Center for Craft Grant Program Manager - Research & Ideas Mellanee Goodman.  An audience Q&A will follow their conversation.

This is a Humanities Common Lecture for UNC Asheville students and faculty. The lecture will be held in the Lipinsky Auditorium at the University of North Carolina Asheville and will be live-streamed and recorded. Free and open to public.

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This event is presented in partnership with the Center for Craft and the University of North Carolina Asheville.