LECTURES & ARTIST TALKS

Exploring creative processes and perspectives

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Lectures and talks from Rainbow Serpent affiliated artists and scholars offer deep insights into creative processes across themes of art, education, technology, and innovative healing. By highlighting diverse cultural narratives, we aim to inspire and educate, fostering a greater understanding of the connections between art, heritage, and contemporary practice.

Join us for enlightening discussions that bridge past and present, celebrating our shared human experience.

Featured Artist Talk

Select Scholarly Lectures

Marques Redd, Mikael Owunna (Lecturers). Uniting the Gods & Their Statues: Activating Ancient Egyptian Cosmology. American Research Center in Egypt – Missouri Chapter. May 21, 2024. (link)

2024

Marques Redd, Mikael Owunna (Panelists). Space and the Arts. Beyond the Cradle: Earth + Space. MIT Media Lab. Cambridge, MA. March 15, 2023. (link)

Marques Redd (Panelist). Sun Ra. Myth Salon with Dr. Stephen C. Finley: Extraterrestrials, Myth and Racism. YouTube. January 26, 2023. ( link )

2023

2022

Marques Redd (Lecturer). Activating Egyptian Spirituality. Sacred Inclusion Network. October 04, 2022. ( link )

Marques Redd (Panelist). Archives of the Impossible. Rice University. Houston, TX. March 3-6, 2022. (link)

2020

Mikael Owunna (Lecturer). Precolonial African Sexuality, Contemporary Homophobia, and #LimitlessAfricans. Middlebury College Museum of Art. Middlebury, VT. October 17, 2019. ( link )

2019

Mikael Owunna (Lecturer). Transcending The Body. TEDxTrinityCollege. May 26, 2020. ( link )

Marques Redd, Mikael Owunna. Space — A Visual Journey. Artist Talk with Mikael Owunna. Fotografiska. Stockholm, Sweden. October 19, 2024. (link)

Mikael Owunna. Imagine Fresh Darkness. Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts. Portland, OR. June 08, 2024. ( link )

Select Artist Talks

2024

Mikael Owunna. In the Artist's Studio. Museum of the African Diaspora. YouTube. May 31, 2023. ( link )

2023

Mikael Owunna. Left of Black. John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. YouTube. February 4, 2021. ( link )

2021