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Artist Talk: Vanessa Dion Fletcher with Julie Rae Tucker

Artist Talk: Vanessa Dion Fletcher with Julie Rae Tucker

DATE: Thursday, November 20, 2025

TIME: 7:30pm – 8pm

LOCATION: 2nd floor galleries

COST: This event is part of AWE at Night

Current AWE Members: Free admission
Non-Members: $20

Accessibility: Accessibility and accommodation requests must be made at least two weeks in advance of the event. Please contact [email protected] for questions.

Join artist Vanessa Dion Fletcher for a talk on BIG Doll | XWAT Naaniitus, an exhibition that celebrates making from the heart rather than the head. Both personal and collaborative, the project invites audiences of all ages to take part in creating an artwork while reflecting on how education systems can limit creativity. By transforming the intimate act of beadwork into something large and public, Fletcher reveals the beauty of process, imagination, and shared learning.

About the Artist: Vanessa Dion Fletcher

Vanessa Dion Fletcher is a Lenape and Potawatomi neurodiverse Artist; her family is from Eelūnaapèewii Lahkèewiitt (displaced from Lenapehoking) and European settlers. She uses porcupine quills, Wampum belts, and menstrual blood to reveal the complexities of what defines a body physically and culturally. Reflecting on an Indigenous and gendered body with a neurodiverse mind, Dion Fletcher primarily works in performance, textiles and video.