Ka’ila Farrell-Smith on Clubhouse

Bio

Klamath Modoc Artist Activist⚡️ 🌊 🏹
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MFA Contemporary Art Practices
NOLS Certified Wilderness First Responder
Hallie Ford Fellow 2021
Fields Artist Fellow 2019-2020, Oregon Humanities
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Here to share ideas and meet new people in the global fight for land back and Black and Indigenous liberation movements against settler colonialism and resource extraction. Working on building community and mutual aid coalitions. People of the Global Majority. Music lover 🎼🎧
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A R T I S T B I O
Ka'ila Farrell-Smith (She/Her) is a contemporary Klamath Modoc visual artist based in Modoc Point, Oregon (so called USA). The conceptual framework of her practice focuses on channeling research through a creative flow of experimentation and artistic playfulness rooted in Indigenous aesthetics and abstract formalism. Utilizing painting and traditional Native art practices, her work explores space in-between the Indigenous and western paradigms.

Ka’ila’s work has been exhibited at Out of Sight, Museum of Northwest Art, Tacoma Art Museum, WA; Missoula Art Museum, MT and Medici Fortress, Cortona, Italy; and in Oregon she has work in the permanent collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and Portland Art Museum.

She is represented at SCALEHOUSE Collaborative in Bend. Her solo exhibition ‘Ghost Rider: Performing Fugitive Indigeneity’ featuring the Land Back painting series will be on view at Ditch Projects in Springfield and MESH exhibition at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon in 2021. Ka’ila has recently been selected to attend artist residencies at Djerassi, UCROSS, Institute of American Indian Arts, and Crow's Shadow.

www.kailafarrellsmith.com

Venmo: @Kaila-Farrell-Smith