Cherokee Talks: NATIVE AMERICAN ART & PERSPECTIVES WITH KALYN BARNOSKI

Live Cultural & Traditional Demonstrations
(Durbin Feeling Language Center, Tahlequah, OK 74464)
SATURDAY 8/31 @1PM
BIO:
Kalyn Fay Barnoski (b. 1990, Cherokee Nation enrollee, Muscogee Creek descent) is an
interdisciplinary artist, musician, curator, and educator from Oklahoma. Centering Indigenous
and decolonial methodologies, their work focuses on self-location, community-building,
collaboration, and empathy through the use of music, publication, storytelling, and
contemporary craft. In every endeavor, they see their practice as a way to find the ways in
which we all intersect and to build bridges of understanding between. Their practice is “for you,
for me, for us, for we.”
Kalyn Fay Barnoski holds an M.F.A. from University of Arkansas (2021), an M.A. from The
University of Tulsa (2016), and a B.F.A. from Rogers State University (2012). Kalyn has worked
with Peabody Essex Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, Gilcrease Museum, Crystal Bridges
Museum of American Art, The Momentary, Eiteljorg Museum, along with others, and
performed, exhibited, and facilitated workshops both nationally and internationally.