Dr. Co Carew (Mescalero Apache); An Art-Based Experience: Understanding a Sense of Place
January 22nd, 2025, 12 PM - 12:50 PM in the Payne Family Native American Center Room 103.
Please join this free event with Dr. Co Carew for an art-based experience to discuss and explore a sense of place using an Indigenous Framework. A 'Sense of Place' is understood as one's connection with people, land, one's ancestry, culture, and experiences. Participants will explore their connection to PLACE with an art-making experience using watercolor, markers, and heavy duty watercolor paper. You will create your narrative of PLACE with the use of color, lines, shapes, and designs.
Co Carew, PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Work, has worked as an instructor for over 21 years. She infuses experiential and discovery learning, as primary teaching modes. Carew also works as an expressive arts therapist, with a focus on trauma. Her doctoral research explored and further defined a sense of place, understood as one’s connection to-P-people, L-land, A-ancestry, C-culture and E-experiences. Additionally, she found that fostering these aspects can build resiliency. Dr. Carew's research, instructional and therapeutic specialty is using arts-based modalities and Indigenous research methods.