All My Relations Collective: Skeleton Canoe

All My Relations Collective is dedicated to creating transformative experiences at the intersection of art, technology, and traditional Indigenous knowledge. We are committed to making new work that uplifts the interconnectedness of all living things past, present, and future.  We shed the idea of a prescriptive process. We weave together all parts of our artistic practices that we’ve developed in our concentric circles: social justice, community organizing, creative technology, and narrative justice. Notable honors and residencies include the 2024 National Theatre Project Creation and Touring Grant recipient (Skeleton Canoe), 2022 MacDowell Fellowship (Skeleton Canoe), 2021 New England Foundation for the Arts Capacity Building Grant (GIZHIBAA GIIZHIG | Revolving Sky), 2020 MAPP Fund Recipient (Skeleton Canoe), 2019 La Mama Umbria NexGen Residency (GIZHIBAA GIIZHIG | Revolving Sky).

A writer and interdisciplinary story artist. As a Grammy award winner, Ty shape-shifts, bending in and out of forms to celebrate the celestial force of rainbows on the Earth. Ty has earned fellowships and commissions from Robert Rauschenberg, MacDowell, Sundance, Kennedy Center’s Next 50, and Pop Culture Collab Trans Futurist! Ty creates work with rural communities, Broadway productions, and in the metaverse, fostering relations for Indigenous and decolonial futures. Works and authored created: Trail and Tears, River of Stone, Red Pine, The Way They Lived, Ajijaak on Turtle Island, Hear Me Say My Name, The Lesson, Firebird Tattoo, Copper Horns in Water,  Ballad of Smokey Quartz, Our Words Are Seeds, For The People, and a 2SiQ Pop Up Powwow. Ty has presented works at the Museum of the American Indian, The Momentary-Crystal Bridges, Guthrie Theater, Lied Center, Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, LaMaMa, Carnegie Hall, the O’Neill Puppetry Conference, PAC0NYC, Under the Radar, Hayden Planetarium, and various National Parks across Turtle Island. Publications: Casting a Movement, Thorny Locust, Routledge Press, and Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays for the Stage published by Bloomsbury. Professor of Practice at ASU and Writer-in-Residence for The Ground Beneath Our Feet at PACE in NYC. Founding member of All My Relations Collective. 

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