TRIBAL AFFILIATION: Mi’kmaq, Acadia First Nation

PANEL TITLE: Arts Transforming Our Futures

BIOGRAPHY
Jared Lank (Mi'kmaq) is an interdisciplinary filmmaker from Maine. He holds advanced degrees in anthropology and human geography. His work explores identity and belonging, focusing on the nuanced, intergenerational experience of forced cultural loss, erasure, and assimilation under settler colonialism. His films expose the vicious and indoctrinating colonial underpinnings of society through metaphor, lived experience, and an Indigenous lens.

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UPCOMING DAWNLAND FESTIVAL OF ARTS & IDEAS

Organized by the Abbe Museum, the Dawnland Festival of Arts & Ideas is a unique multi-day event is an evolution of our popular Abbe Museum Indian Market (AMIM) and Native American Festival that featured invitation-only Native arts markets and performances. The Dawnland Festival of Arts & Ideas includes those elements but will also spotlight conversations by Wabanaki and other Indigenous leaders on some of the biggest questions of our time, including climate, democracy, and food systems.

The Dawnland Festival of Arts & Ideas is FREE and open to the public.

This event is supported in part by grants from the Henry Luce Foundation and Maine Office of Tourism, along with a partnership from the College of the Atlantic.