The Mojave Project Webinar: African American Homesteading in Lanfair Valley

Описание: During the early twentieth century, twenty-three African American families filed for homesteads in the eastern Mojave at Lanfair Valley near Goffs, California. Palm Springs-based artist Dr. Barbara Gothard has been conducting extensive research on these homesteaders which has led to a body of artwork on exhibition through August 10, 2022, at the Victor Valley Museum in Apple Valley, California. For this Transformation and Reinvention panel discussion, Dr. Gothard will be in conversation with David Nichols, who has led archaeological research at the historic homesteading site as the Cultural Resource Program Manager at the Mojave National Preserve. Claytee White, who directs the Oral History Research Center at UNLV Libraries, will act as panel moderator. This panel was held as a Zoom webinar hosted by the UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art on Thursday, July 22, 2022.

Panel participants include:

Dr. Barbara Gothard, visual artist and researcher

Claytee D. White, Director of the Oral History Research Center at UNLV Libraries

David Nichols, Cultural Resource Program Manager, Mojave National Preserve

Kim Stringfellow, Mojave Project Director, was panel co-moderator.

The four scheduled webinars coincide with The Mojave Project exhibition at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), and bring together a variety of voices and perspectives, including Indigenous culture bearers, scholars, researchers, artists and activists from the Mojave Desert bioregion spanning California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah. This free-to-the-public webinar series educates audiences by generating impactful conversation.

The Mojave Project Webinar series is supported by a Humanities for All Quick Grant through California Humanities. and hosted by the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art UNLV.