Every year during Wearable Arts, professional judges come in and weigh each piece and its presentation — then they pick their favorites. But K̲aachgóon Rochelle Smallwood’s piece got left out of that process.
Photo by K̲aachgóon Rochelle Smallwood. Her piece for Wearable Arts, Ya Héen Áwé Ya K̲usteeyi, is behind her in this photo.
Juneau arts council staff determined that there wasn’t racism involved in the decision to exclude K̲aachgóon’s piece from the judging process,“For them to just be like, ‘No, it wasn’t racist.’ It was like — it’s just kind of like — okay, well, you don’t get to decide that,” she said. “they were like ‘Yeah, haha, like that’s funny. Like, how is that going to happen?’ They laughed about it to my face.”
As Lingít language revitalization efforts grow, University of Alaska Southeast language professor X̱’uneiis coming up more often. “I understand that some people want to know, and they feel excluded if they don’t know,” Twitchell said. “But then hopefully, there’s got to be ways, I think, for the communities to also sort of say, ‘Hey, not everything has to be for everybody.’ But at the same time, it does get complicated at times, because some people were dealing with languages that were specifically prohibited by an English speaking population.
“You know, you can do some research on art, if we see a painting that we don’t understand or by an artist that we’re not familiar with, we don’t dismiss it and reject it immediately. We do some research, we talk to people, we ask questions, and then we appreciate it even more,” she said.
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