Water is Life

Come to the Black Family Visual Arts Center to see Water is Life, by Studio Art Intern Darby Raymond Overstreet. This short clip is being projected on the wall of the atrium.

From Darby: "This piece was made in response to the overwhelming solidarity that has formed among Indigenous/Native Americans against the threat that the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) imposes on clean water resources and on the Indigenous sovereignty of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North Dakota. The piece is also to portray the wide variety of peoples and cultures Indigenous to the Americas. Over 400 different Indigenous languages to both North and South America are represented. Each word means water. All of the different languages represented here and all of the different dialects within these languages have their own message about water and its importance, it’s only a matter of whether those messages are heard and respected."