Janet and Àlvaro
Ohsweken, ON + Monterey Park, CA
Janet is a Mohawk/Tuscarora poet, media producer and performance artist. She lives on her home territory of Six Nations of the Grand River where she operates the small publishing press, Ojistoh Publishing. She has seven published poetry titles and is the current McMaster University and Hamilton Public Library Writer in Residence (2020-2021). Janet combines her literary talents with her passion for media making to produce audio and video poetry. Her video poem Ego of a Nation was screened widely around the world in 2020 and 2021 and won Best Music Video at the American Indian International Film Festival 2020.
Álvaro D. Márquez is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and researcher who works primarily with printmaking, fiber art, sculpture, and installation. Utilizing a research-based methodology, their work explores the history of displacement in the Americas, starting with Indigenous dispossession and genocide to current issues around gentrification, segregation, and questions around the unhoused. Their work has been showed nationally and internationally, and they are the current artist-in-residence at the El Segundo Museum of Art. They hold an MA in American Studies and Ethnicity from the University of Southern California, as well as an MFA in Printmaking from CSU Long Beach.
