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• Drowned Land : Indigenizing dominant culture - Pt. IV

  • When
    Thursday, December 18, 2025
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    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    ZOOM - Mountain Time

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  Drowned Land : Indigenizing dominant culture - Pt. IV 

  Thursday, December 18 Timebuddy
  

  United States: 11am HST, 1pm PST, 2pm MST, 3pm CST, 4pm EST 

  Europe: 21:00 GMT, 22:00 CET

  Australia: Friday, December 19, 8am AEDT

  For this screening and Q&A event we will hear from Colleen Thurston (Choctaw), Director of the documentary Drowned Land, which shares the stories of a group of water protectors determined to preserve the lifeline of their community and end a cycle of environmental exploitation on the Kiamichi River in Oklahoma.

  Winding its way through southeastern Oklahoma, deep in the Choctaw Nation, the Kiamichi River is a bastion of eco-diversity. Much to the dismay of communities along the river, the state of Oklahoma recently signed an agreement to dam and divert 85% of its remaining water.

  This isn’t a first for the Kiamichi and its tributaries, already twice-dammed to create reservoirs. One, Sardis Lake, is named after the town that was flooded by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1980. All that is left of Sardis is the cemetery, now an island in the middle of the lake.

  Residents of communities along the Kiamichi are determined that their water source should not be further disturbed. A group of locals have banded together to fight developers and the state in court over their river, invoking the Endangered Species Act–not only is the Kiamichi the most ecologically diverse river in the state, it is the most mussel-diverse river in the world.

  This is the fourth and final event in our fall series exploring how Indigenizing dominant culture can encourage a greater balance between humans and the more-than-human world.

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  Coleen Thurston is a documentary storyteller, producer and film curator from Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has created non-fiction film and videos for the Smithsonian Channel, Vox, and museums, public television, and federal and tribal organizations. Grounding her filmmaking practice in place-based narratives and Indigenous world views, her work has screened at international film festivals and broadcast nationwide. Her work has been supported by Firelight Media, the Sundance Institute, Patagonia, ITVS, Vision Maker Media, the Ford Foundation, the Redford Center, and Creative Capital. Colleen’s first feature documentary DROWNED LAND (2025) examines the cycle of displacement as it is related to resource extraction in her tribe, the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Colleen is the project producer for the Indigenous video series Native Lens, and is a senior programmer for Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival and an Associate Programmer for MountainFilm. She has curated film programs for institutions such as the Momentary (Bentonville, AR), the Smithsonian’s Native Cinema Showcase (Santa Fe, NM), the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), UCLA Film and Television Archives and Vidiots (Los Angeles, CA) and numerous film festivals. Thurston is the founder of the Indigenous Moving Image Archive and is currently an Tulsa Artist Fellow and International Documentary Association Fellow. drownedland.com

  
  

  This is a fundraiser event. Attendees donate $5 for each ticket. Please purchase as many as you would like to donate. All attendees MUST REGISTER.

  
  

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• Sustain(ability) & the Art Studio - Fall 2025 Presentations

  • When
    Saturday, December 20, 2025
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    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ZOOM - Mountain Time

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  FALL 2025 Presentations
  

  Saturday, December 20

  United States: 8am HST, 11am PST, Noon MST, 1pm CST, 2pm EST

  Europe: 19:00 GMT  Australia: Sunday, December 21, 6am AEDT

  Participants from the Fall 2025 Sustain(ability) & the Art Studio course will give presentations of their projects for interested members. You can also sign up for the Winter/Spring 2026 session, which will be held on Zoom February through May.
  

  This was the seventh course designed exclusively for ecoartspace members guiding artists to develop ways of thinking about sustainability in their practice, both conceptually and physically. Participants learned how to wildcraft art materials, a practice that requires one to deepen in their relationship with land, creativity, and self. Through lectures, discussions, self-guided creative research, and class presentations, participants were invited to think critically about how their practice engages place, materiality, and voice in a time of socio-ecological destabilization. Join us to witness their journey way-finding a meaningful practice grounded in bioregional artistic research.

  Special thanks to our guest artists Koyoltzintli Miranda-rivadeneira and Nicole Dextras for sharing their practices with the Fall 2025 participants.

  This event is free for members + one guest. Non-members are free. All participants MUST REGISTER.

  
  

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• ecofiction book club

  • When
    Sunday, January 18, 2026
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    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ZOOM - Mountain Time

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  ecofiction book club
  

  Led by Colette Copeland
  

  2026 February, May, September

  
  

  Initial Meet Up, Sunday, January 18

  United States: 10am HST, Noon PST, 1pm MST, 2pm CST, 3pm EST 

  Europe: 20:00 GMT, 21:00 CET

  Australia: Monday, January 19, 7am AEDT

  Welcome to the ecoartspace ecofiction book club for 2026, which will be led by member Colette Copeland. There will be three books and three online meet ups. Discussions starting in February, then May, and September. We will be meeting in January for introductions and to come up with the best days/times to convene. Depending on how many participants sign up, discussions will last somewhere between 60-90 minutes. The three books to be read include: Once There Were Wolves (2022) by Charlotte McConaghy situated in Scotland where a team of biologists are reintroudcing gray wolves in the Highlands; second, a story of a young wife and mother on a failing farm in rural Tennessee titled Flight Behavior (2015) by Barbara Kingsolver that energizes religious leaders, climate scientists, environmentalists, and politicians; and, the third set in the world's largest ocean titled Playground (2024) by Richard Powers, which explores the last wild place yet to be colonized. Discussion questions will be sent out a week before each meet up.

  "My philosophy on book choices is to emphasize different aspects of environmental issues and climate change, through contemporary literary fiction with some cross-over into other genres." Colette Copeland 

  
  

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  Colette Copeland is an interdisciplinary visual artist based in Granbury, Texas. Inspired by Dada and Fluxus, her artistic practice combines personal narratives, history, and contemporary culture using a variety of media including video, photography, sound, performance, printmaking and sculptural installation. Her performance videos utilize experimental narrative strategies to map the complexities of human and non-human relationships. Over the past 34 years, Copeland's work has been featured in 40 solo exhibitions and 170 group exhibitions and festivals across 35 countries. She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MFA from Syracuse University and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Texas. In 2023–2024, she received a Fulbright Scholar Research Award to document contemporary female artists in India working with socially engaged practices, and to develop an experimental sound project that amplifies the voices of female, non-binary, and queer communities. Copeland currently writes for Arteidolia and Glasstire online publications and is a member of International Association of Art Critics (AICA-USA). She is an avid bibliophile and leads two monthly book clubs. 

  
  

  This series is $15 for members (only). All participants MUST REGISTER.

  
  

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