A member of the Spokane Nation and an artist, writer, educator, and activist, Charlene Teters (MFA 1994) rose to national prominence as a graduate student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where she led protests against the degrading depictions of American Indian caricatures used as sport team’s mascots and was the subject of the award-winning documentary In Whose Honor? by Jay Rosenstein. She has been honored as “Person of the Week” by ABC News and received a New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. She is the recipient of two honorary doctorates from Mitchell College in Connecticut in 2000 and from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2021.

March 21, 2024

Temple Hoyne Buell Hall