Image Credit: Evan Benally Atwood, Window Rock, AZ
Location: CSWS Lyceum (Room 120)
Free and open to all.
Celebrating Earth Day & FLC Arts April!
Join us at the Center of Southwest Studies for a special artist talk with Diné photographer, curator, and creative collaborator Rapheal Begay.
Rapheal is a visual storyteller based in Tségháhoodzání (Window Rock, Arizona) who uses cultural landscape photography, Indigenous storytelling traditions, and land-based knowledge to inform his creative practice and to preserve memory and understanding found within the Diné way of life.
Rapheal will share his professional approach and the projects that have shaped his practice, including ALL REZ: Kéyah, Hooghan, K’é, Iiná | Land, Home, Kinship, Life (The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and Axle Contemporary), the first traveling site-specific photography exhibition across the Navajo Nation. He was also co-curator of the highly acclaimed exhibition Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles (Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, 2023–2025). Named as one of 12 New Mexico Artists to Know in 2020 by Southwest Contemporary, Rapheal is also the recipient of the 2021-22 Goodman Aspiring Artist Fellowship from the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture. He holds a BFA in Photography with a minor in Arts Management and a Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of New Mexico.
This artist talk was made possible with generous support from the Belonging Colorado initiative of The Denver Foundation and the Greater Good Science Center, and is in partnership with the America 250-Colorado 150 Southwest regional “Power of Place” initiative.