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Dancing with Devils: Latin American Masks Traditions Exhibition
The K’acha Willaykuna Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Arts and Humanities Collaboration, a GAHDT-funded project, is pleased to present “Dancing with Devils: Latin American Masks Traditions” — an…

AWANA Network of Intercultural Community Artists and Cultural Administrators Minka Cultural - Virtual Concert and Cultural Encounter
On May 12, 2021 we witnessed the birth of AWANA Red de Artistas y Gestores Interculturales Comunitarios – AWANA Network of Intercultural Community Artists and Cultural Administrators by way of a…

Congratulations to our Spring 2021 Whitten Scholarship Awardees!
Each year the exceptional work and research that student curators undertake with the Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Art and Cultural Artifacts Collection is recognized by way of the Whitten…

Artist's Talk on Dancing with Devils: Latin American Mask Traditions Recording and Transcript
We are excited to share the recording and transcript for the Artist's Talk on Dancing with Devils: Latin American Mask Traditions from March 22nd, 2021. This was a conversation about the…

Elvia Andía Grágeda Receives Bolivian Literary Prize For Her Debut Novel
Congratulations K'acha Willaykuna Co-PI Elvia Andía Grágeda, who in 2019 won the Premio Guamán Poma de Ayala en Lengua Originaria, a national literary prize in Bolivia. Ms. Andía Grágeda…

Elvia Andía Grágeda: The World’s First Certified OPI Tester For Quechua
We would like to spotlight Professor Elvia Andía Grágeda, the Quechua instructor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the Ohio State University, who in 2019 became first American…

5th Annual Quechua Alliance Meeting Recap Video
Greetings friends!
In November of 2019 The Ohio State University hosted the 5th Annual Quechua Alliance Meeting, an event that gathers Quechua language speakers and students from across…

Dancing with Devils Interview with Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros and Leonardo Carrizo
Dancing with Devils Interview with Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros and Leonardo Carrizo
The Dancing with Devils: Latin American Mask Traditions online exhibit is now available for viewing…

dear fellow settler colonizer, Monthly Radio Show
One of our Co-PIs Professor Richard Fletcher will be hosting a monthly radio show on the Columbus-based community internet radio site Verge.fm called dear fellow settler…