“As Indigenous people and as artists we really need to speak these truths, and disrupt, and make examples of an envisioned future where we do radically reclaim these lands.” – @jeremynative Tuesday, October 11 @roughdraftny, @forgeprojectny executive director and chief curator @candicebhopkins (Tlingit) joined artist and @mashousestudio founder Jeremy Dennis (Shinnecock) for an intimate conversation on new New York–based initiatives focusing on Indigenous arts and culture, making space for Native kinship, and re-building community in the region. Ma’s House Studio is a not-for-profit BIPOC-focused communal artist residency program in a family home originally built in the 1960s on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation on Long Island. Launched in 2020, Ma’s House holds an art studio, library, and hosts an array of art and history-based programs for tribal members and the broader local community. Launched in 2021, #ForgeProjectNY serves the social and cultural landscape of shared communities through a funded fellowship program for Indigenous culture workers, including those working in food and land justice, law and decolonial governance, and art. Forge hosts Native-led public education and events, a lending art collection focused on contemporary art by Indigenous artists, and a teaching farm and related programs developed in partnership with @skyhighfarmhudsonvalley. Rough Draft is a community bar and bookstore located in uptown Kingston, New York, the ancestral homelands of the Esopus band of the Lenape tribe, who were forcibly displaced from the region through years of Anglo-European settlement. The uptown neighborhood is the site of the original stockade, constructed in 1658 by Dutch colonial governor Peter Stuyvesant to remove the Esopus from their tribal lands. Thank you to the entire staff @roughdraftny for their hard work and making space to support this important dialogue. Watch the entire conversation online via the #LinkInBio