Jill Marie Holslin Lecture: Unsettling the Archive: Reweaving the Stories We Inherit

Artist Jill Marie Holslin will discuss Unsettled Artifacts, a project that weaves together family photographs, land deeds, and plat maps from her grandfather’s archive with her own photographs of native plants from Dakota and Ojibwe lands in Minnesota. Using fine art photographic paper, transparent film, and mylar, Holslin cuts and weaves the images to create layered compositions where past and present intersect. At a moment when climate change and renewed appeals to a mythic “American greatness” shape public debate, Holslin invites audiences to reconsider the stories we inherit about land, history, and belonging—and to imagine other ways of listening to the land and the histories it holds.

This lecture is free and open to the public.