K’acha Willaykuna is an interdisciplinary Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Arts and Humanities Collaboration that centers around a fundamental appreciation of material cultural production, oral traditions and performance practices as key sites of Andean and Amazonian Indigenous knowledge, memory and meaning making.
"Where there may be misunderstanding, misinformation and/or misappropriation of resources, cross-disciplinary research sets the stage for creating commonplaces that work toward a more just, livable world." — Christa Teston, Andrea Lunsford Designated Associate Professor of English and Director of Business and Technical Writing
"Art can do things that other disciplines cannot do, and vice-versa, but when we are working together new possibilities emerge that expand the questions, the methods, the knowledge, and problem-solving potentials." — Amy Youngs, Associate Professor in the Department of Art