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SUMMARY:Spotlight Sundays: Land as Body—A Community Ritual with Puri Arts
DESCRIPTION:Your browser does not support the video tag.\n            \n		\n		            \n				                    \n\n				                Your browser does not support the video tag.\n            \n		\n    \n\n    \n        \n            \nSpotlight Sundays: Mildred Howard in Conversation with Nashormeh Lindo and Essence Harden\n\n        \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpotlight Sundays: Land as Body—A Community Ritual with Puri Arts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis Spotlight Sundays\, we are excited to welcome back Dohee Lee and Puri Arts with their project Land as Body: Belonging\, a powerful community ritual that interweaves ceremony\, storytelling\, and drumming. This spirited offering provides a ceremonial bridge for healing between ancestors and the people of all lands that have endured ruptures due to deportation\, incarceration\, and all forms of colonial violence. \n\n\n\nIn collaboration with Asian Refugees United-Connect-Reflect-Enact (ARU-CRE) and Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC)  (including members inside and out of San Quentin Prison)\, Land as Body cultivates a collective of immigrants\, refugees\, and settlers on the Indigenous lands of Turtle Island where they live and belong. Please join us for this potent expression of healing and connection. \n\n\n\nProgram Schedule\n\n\n\n1–1:30 pm | Welcome Ceremony1:30–3 pm | Traditional Jeju Island Ritual – Storytelling and Offerings3–4 pm | Community Circle – Drumming and Dance \n\n\n\nThis program is free and open to the public (no tickets required) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Dohee Lee\n\n\n\nBorn on Jeju Island\, Corea\, Dohee trained in Corean traditional music and dance\, deeply rooted in Corean Indigenous practice (shamanism)\, especially that of Jeju Island. In 2002\, Dohee immigrated to Oakland and founded Puri Arts in 2004 to create a new art form. Since then\, she has contributed to both traditional and contemporary arts. She emphasizes the mythical\, experimental\, ritualistic\, historical and healing aspects of performance and installation\, catalyzing new relationships between identity\, nature\, spirituality\, and the political. Dohee is Artistic Director of Dohee Lee Puri Arts\, Director of Art and Healing with Asian Refugees United\, and is faculty at Tamalpa Institute. \n\n\n\nAbout Puri Arts (PA)\n\n\n\nPA is an art organization that practices cultural and ancestral ritual performances rooted in Corean indigenous practice and contemporary arts for healing justice. \n\n\n\nAbout Asian Refugees United (ARU-CRE)\n\n\n\nARU-CRE is a non-profit organization centered on art\, healing\, and social justice leadership for immigrants and refugees in the Asian diaspora. \n\n\n\nAbout Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC)\n\n\n\nAPSC provides direct support to Asian and Pacific Islander (API) prisoners and raises awareness about the growing number of APIs being imprisoned\, detained\, and deported. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAccessibility\n\n\n\nOakland Museum of California (OMCA) is committed to providing programs that are accessible\, welcoming\, and inclusive of our community. Wheelchairs\, sensory inclusive devices\, and additional amenities are available for checkout on a first come\, first served basis at the Ticketing Desk. To request other accommodations\, like American Sign Language (ASL)\, Cantonese\, Spanish or another language interpreter\, please email visitor@museumca.org at least three weeks before the event. Learn more about our accessibility options. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReturn to Events
URL:https://museumca.org/event/spotlight-sundays-land-as-body-a-community-ritual-with-puri-arts/
LOCATION:OMCA Lecture Hall\, 1000 Oak\, Oakland\, California\, 94607
CATEGORIES:Spotlight Sundays,Ticketed,Members
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SUMMARY:Spotlight Sundays: Mildred Howard in Conversation with Nashormeh Lindo and Essence Harden
DESCRIPTION:Your browser does not support the video tag.\n            \n		\n		            \n				                    \n\n				                Your browser does not support the video tag.\n            \n		\n    \n\n    \n        \n            \nSpotlight Sundays: Mildred Howard in Conversation with Nashormeh Lindo and Essence Harden\n\n        \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpotlight Sundays: Mildred Howard in Conversation with Nashormeh Lindo and Essence Harden\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us this Spotlight Sundays for an in-depth conversation with beloved Bay Area artist Mildred Howard\, who is featured in OMCA’s current special exhibition Mildred Howard: Poetics of Memory. Howard will exchange stories and reflections on a lifetime of art\, practice\, and living in the Bay Area with her longtime friend\, fellow artist\, and art advocate\, Nashormeh Lindo. The conversation will be moderated by Senior Curator of Art at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, Essence Harden\, whose own prolific curatorial career spans multiple California art institutions. Don’t miss this special opportunity to hear these insightful creatives share their inspiring stories.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpotlight Sundays ticket is $10 and includes access to all of OMCA’s galleries! OMCA Members have first access to tickets! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTICKETS COMING SOON\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis program is a part of our exhibition programming for Mildred Howard: Poetics of Memory\, on view through October 18 2026. This program received support from The David Ireland House\, 500 Capp Street Foundation and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Mildred Howard\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMildred Howard began making art influenced by textiles and African Diasporic dance as early as the 1970s. Howard’s studio became a space for experimentation\, where her work has referenced both personal history and collective\, generational experiences—from World War I to her family’s roots in the Great Migration. Howard’s monumental public artworks—found across the Bay Area—have highlighted often overlooked histories\, from the Black shipworkers of Hunters Point to the musicians who defined San Francisco jazz. OMCA’s exhibition Mildred Howard: Poetics of Memory brings together Howard’s renowned collages\, found-object sculptures\, and immersive installations that explore memory\, identity\, and the African American experience.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Nashormeh N.R. Lindo\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNashormeh N.R. Lindo is an artist\, educator\, curatorial consultant\, and arts advocate. She received a B.A. in Art from Penn State University\, an M.S. in Museum Leadership\, and is currently a PhD candidate in Art Education and African American and Diaspora Studies at Penn State University. Lindo’s artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally. In addition to her art practice\, she has served as adjunct instructor of African American Art History at CCSF\,  Educational Programs Manager at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\, Exhibition Program Consultant for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Oakland Museum of California\, and served as Chair of the California Arts Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Essence Harden\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEssence Harden is Senior Curator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Harden has organized exhibitions at the CAAM\, Orange County Museum of Art\, Art + Practice\, the MoAD\, and OMCA\, among others. Most recently\, Harden curated the Focus section of Frieze LA from 2024 to 2026\, the Expo Chicago 2026\, and co-curated Made in L.A. 2025 at the Hammer Museum. Harden’s writing has appeared in Frieze\, Gagosian Quarterly\, Art21\, Artsy\, and Cultured. Harden is a 2018 recipient of the Creative Capital\, Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant\, and a 2020 Annenberg Innovation Lab Civic Media Fellow. Harden previously served as Visual Arts Curator at the CAAM and has worked as an art consultant for film and television. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAccessibility\n\n\n\nOakland Museum of California (OMCA) is committed to providing programs that are accessible\, welcoming\, and inclusive of our community. Wheelchairs\, sensory inclusive devices\, and additional amenities are available for checkout on a first come\, first served basis at the Ticketing Desk. To request other accommodations\, like American Sign Language (ASL)\, Cantonese\, Spanish or another language interpreter\, please email visitor@museumca.org at least three weeks before the event. Learn more about our accessibility options. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReturn to Events
URL:https://museumca.org/event/spotlight-sundays-mildred-howard-in-conversation-with-nashormeh-lindo-and-essence-harden/
LOCATION:James Moore Theater\, 1000 Oak St\,\, Oakland\, California\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Spotlight Sundays,Ticketed,Conversation / Lecture,Members
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