Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a presentation next week as part of its lecture series featuring prominent voices in Native knowledge, art, culture and language.
Interdisciplinary artist and Chilkat weaver Ursala Kadusné Hudson will present her talk, “The Gendered Burden of Cultural Continuity,” on Thursday, Aug. 28.
The lecture will explore the often invisible labor of cultural survival carried by historically female-gendered Indigenous art forms such as weaving, sewing and beading. Drawing from her lived experience and research, Hudson will examine how these practices are foundational to Indigenous sovereignty, memory and resilience.
Her project, a three-dimensional woven Chilkat totem pole, will blend personal story, visual documentation and art historical critique to reveal how care, ceremony and generational knowledge are embedded in material practices.
Themes of the presentation include the patriarchal valuation of “fine art” over “craft,” Indigenous feminist theories of rematriation and the role of intergenerational care in art making.
Learn more about Sealaska Heritage here: sealaskaheritage.org
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Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a presentation next week as part of its lecture series featuring prominent voices in Native knowledge, art, culture and language.
Interdisciplinary artist and Chilkat weaver Ursala Kadusné Hudson will present her talk, “The Gendered Burden of Cultural Continuity,” on Thursday, Aug. 28.
The lecture will explore the often invisible labor of cultural survival carried by historically female-gendered Indigenous art forms such as weaving, sewing and beading. Drawing from her lived experience and research, Hudson will examine how these practices are foundational to Indigenous sovereignty, memory and resilience.
Her project, a three-dimensional woven Chilkat totem pole, will blend personal story, visual documentation and art historical critique to reveal how care, ceremony and generational knowledge are embedded in material practices.
Themes of the presentation include the patriarchal valuation of “fine art” over “craft,” Indigenous feminist theories of rematriation and the role of intergenerational care in art making.
Learn more about Sealaska Heritage here: sealaskaheritage.org
facebook.com/SHInstitute
instagram.com/shinstitute
twitter.com/SHInstitute
