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WATCH IT: UCD Grad Students work on a project to promote Native American artists from Northern California

10/31/2011

UCD NAS Graduate Students Cutcha Risling Baldy and Brook Colley worked as part of the "Native Arts, Voices & Perspectives Project" which completed artist feature videos about Native American artists from Northern California. The project was completed by the Native Women's Collective where Cutcha and Brook are both members. From the Native Women's Collective Website:

Thanks to a grant from the Seventh Generation Fund and support from the Ink People Center for the Arts and Center for Indian Community Development we are so happy to be premiering the first of THREE videos about some of the local artists from the Northern California area. The first video featured is for artist Marlette Grant- Jackson. Featured artists for these videos include: SuWorhrom David Baldy, Kateri Masten, Marlette Grant-Jackson and David Mata.

Cutcha Risling Baldy was the director and project coordinator for the videos. Brook Colley worked as the videographer. This is the first of three videos.

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NAS Grad Student Cutcha Risling Baldy tells us how she spent her summer

9/20/2011

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I have a friend who likes to make lists. Taking a cue from her and being quite anxious about preparing for the start of the quarter I have decided the best way to tell people what I did this summer is to list it out.

How I Spent My Summer… by Cutcha Risling Baldy

JUNE:

Got really excited because I’m teaching Native American Literature in the fall and decided to put together my syllabus and course reader. Needed to find a non fiction essay about the second Wounded Knee... looking and looking.
Finished this book (teaching it Fall 2011)
Reread this book (teaching it Fall 2011)
Reread this book (teaching it Fall 2011)
Started to read the Hunger Games book and thought “what am I doing? I can’t read this book. I gotta read a real book instead!”
Still have no idea what the Hunger Games is about. But it sounds yummy. Ba dum dum dum.
Officially became a (1/3) business owner of Wren Usdi Productions.
Continued job working as Project Coordinator for “The Uneasy Remains Film Project.”
Finished a grant to plan and host a symposium on Native Arts & Culture in Northern California for the Native Women’s Collective (where I am the Executive Director)
Filmed for the Arts, Voices, Perspectives Project
Went camping with family and swam in Whiskey Town lake. Jumped off the back of my Aunt’s patio boat. Swam until I couldn’t feel my toes or fingers.

JULY:

Started job working as a Graduate Student Researcher for the Environmental Justice Project at UC Davis.
Went to my first Fourth of July in Davis. Sat right underneath the fireworks. Had some guy come stand right in front of me with a kid on his shoulders. Tried to enjoy the silhouette of a dude and his kid and some fireworks.
Tried to finish this book. Still haven’t finished that book actually.
Flower Dance Ceremony – we sing, we dance, we pray, we laugh.
Home again…

AUGUST:

Grant drafts to foundations and agencies for the Environmental Justice Project and “The Uneasy Remains Film Project.”
Finished this book.
Finally finished my course reader and turned it in.
Made 20 pairs of earrings (for sale at the Native Women’s Collective Etsy shop!)
Kept meaning to watch The Daily Show.
Read an article about how The Colbert Report is now better than The Daily Show.
Am not getting in to that debate.
Wrote this blog entry: http://cutchabaldy.weebly.com/1/post/2011/08/the-subject-line-of-an-email-should-be-its-thesis-statement.html
And this one: http://cutchabaldy.weebly.com/1/post/2011/08/foucault-is-the-guy-who-said-i-am-thinking-of-a-number-between-1-10-panopticon.html
And this one: http://cutchabaldy.weebly.com/1/post/2011/08/the-politics-of-the-listserv.html
Apparently liked blogging in August.
Went home for a nice long visit.
Ate a lot of Mexican food because there is a lot of Mexican food in Humboldt County.
Deerskin Dance Ceremony – we dance, we renew, we eat, we rejoice.

SEPTEMBER:

September is still summer?
It is when you are on the quarter system.
Finished the film treatment for “The Uneasy Remains Film Project.”
Finished some more grants for various projects.
Let’s see – was on a panel about how to be a graduate student. Eat cheap food and stay up late… end of advice.
Worked on the Arts, Voices, Perspectives Project for the Native Women’s Collective and made this “trailer” video.
Wrote a blog entry about what I did this summer.
Decided new school year resolution is to get to bed before 1 a.m. each night.
Broke new school year resolution last night.
Will probably do it again tonight.

Cutcha Risling Baldy is a PhD Graduate Student in Native American Studies and a recipient of the Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. She has her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from San Diego State University and her B.A. in Psychology with a special focus in Health and Development from Stanford University. Ms. Risling Baldy is an enrolled member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe with ties to the Karuk and Yurok peoples. Her research focuses on feminist perspectives in contemporary Native culture, methodologies and theory development for Native American Studies and arts & culture expression (literature, song, ceremony, and oral histories). You can find out more about her here.

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WATCH IT: UCD Grad Students work on a project to promote Native American artists from Northern California

NAS Grad Student Cutcha Risling Baldy tells us how she spent her summer

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