This project aims to draw inspiration from the style of “Victory Gardens” propaganda of the 1940s, while commenting on the resilience of indigenous foods and the ability of plants to transcend national borders.
This video was made in collaboration with dancers, choreographers, musicians, and visual artists that reside in the US/Mexico border and whose work in this project was inspired by their own experience as border artists.
For this project, HONOR Collective members will document and celebrate their efforts by creating a short film that highlights their Indigenous methods of caretaking and ceremony for resilience.
Combined with the layered challenge of the pandemic, this dance film project involves original choreography, set in the desert, which communicates the felt sense of disconnection, repetition, and hopelessness.
The project aims to understand past and present realities living in a border city, the intersecting crises of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the drug cartel war.
An image of Ernie McCray and Shirley Robinson labeled as the "Whiz Kids". Taken in front of "Dew Drop Inn" between church services at Mt. Calvary Church, they competed on radio shows against white students. The prize they sought was a radio.
A photograph of Emma Hollins with Edgar J. Born and two other women. Hollins was part of the very first Pueblo High School Class where she served as class treasurer.
A newspaper clipping from the Tucson Citizen with a picture of Marilyn Berhard, Sid Dawson (Dunbar choir teacher), and Mildred Pickett rehearsing a scene in the annual TEA show.