B&B + NATIVE ARTS AND CULTURES FOUNDATION CALENDAR – APRIL 2024
We’re excited to announce our 2024 partnership with The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, a Native-led, national nonprofit that advances equity and cultural knowledge, focusing on the power of arts and collaboration to strengthen Native communities and promote positive social change with American Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native peoples in the United States. The April calendar features Mobéy Lola Irizarry, one of the 2022 LIFT– Early Career Support for Native Artists Award music score program awardees.
We hope that you will use this calendar as an opportunity to explore Native arts and cultures to provoke thought and spark discussion. You can order the calendar absolutely free by jumping on our list HERE.
MOBEY LOLA IRIZARRY | B&B Calendar APRIL Featured artist
Mobéy Lola Irizarry is Puerto Rican, and a Citizen of Chickasaw Nation. Their work is grounded
in a decolonial, queer, and anti-racist practice, posing liberated futures for all colonized and oppressed peoples. A transdisciplinary artist whose work spans visual arts, media, and film, their musical practice is centered around congas, bongos, violin, production, and song. Full bio here.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Propuestes is an installation-sized, three-movement graphic score installation, read and performed by multiple ensembles, and grounded in the Land Back movement, Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba music, the precolonial languages of drums and braids, Queer and Trans cultures, graffiti, and experimental music. Listen in here.
“I think it’s integral to any social justice movement to start with imagination. Without imagining what other worlds are possible, we don’t know what to build toward.”
– Mobéy Lola Irizarry (Puerto Rican, Citizen of Chickasaw Nation)
Featured on the April calendar is a photo of poet and visual artist Irizarry – the walls and tabletops of their apartment are covered with paintings and constructions in various stages of development.
Print details: This calendar page is printed on the Xerox Iridess Digital Press using the CMYK process, plus special clear and gold toners on Titan dull cover.
About Native Arts and Cultures Foundation
The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation is a Native-led, national nonprofit dedicated to advancing equity and cultural knowledge, focusing on the power of arts and collaboration to strengthen Native communities and promote positive social change with American Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native peoples in the United States.
Learn more on their website and follow them on Instagram.
About B&B
B&B Print Source is a full-service Portland-area commercial printer, specializing in signage and large format projects, promotional items and corporate apparel, direct mail, and high-quality packaging that pops. Our collective talent, experience, and investment in technology allow us to produce award-winning projects year after year. We focus on results, and we strive to exceed our customers’ expectations every day.
This gorgeous calendar doubles as a sample packet! Request one today.