Conference Location
Annual TICA Conference will be held at Direct Relief at 6100 Wallace Becknell Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93117.
Hotel Info
TICA has secured a limited number of rooms at the following hotels. If the room block is full, the hotel may still honor TICA's discounted rate if the hotel has availability. Please call the hotel directly to inquire.
About the Art & Artist
Each year, the conference sponsors one American Indian, Alaska Native, or Native Hawaiian artist whose work is featured on digital and print conference materials, including the conference poster. We’re thrilled to introduce this year’s conference art, “Mother Geese,” by Jared Tait! @taitjared
About the Art
This piece represents community, nurturing our future generations. This piece shows a mother goose tending its nest and keeping eggs warm. The eggs have the four medicine colours, red, white, yellow and black. We use these colours to pass on teachings about honouring our 4 directions, 4 seasons, 4 stages of life, 4 medicines.
Artist Biography
Jared Tait belongs to lynx clan with roots to Sachigo Lake First Nation and Thunder Bay, Ontario. Learning under the mentorship of his father, Tim Tait, Jared began a journey into creating articulate imagery by painting. He practices within the Anishinaabe art style known as woodland.
His exposure to woodland painting began from a young age. Jared built a strong connection and appreciation for this artistic practice. Inspired through personal experience and oral stories, he captures the Anishnaabe relations to the traditional world and spirits that inhabit it. Each creation from Jared is meant to preserve shared teachings, symbolisms, and stories. For those now, in the past and future generations to come.
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