Virtual Featured Artist Talk: Monique Verdin

Virtual Talk: Sunday December 6th, 2020 4:30-5:30

BIO:

Monique Verdin is an interdisciplinary storyteller who documents the complex relationship between environment, culture, and climate in southeast Louisiana. She is a citizen of the Houma Nation, director of the Land Memory Bank & Seed Exchange and a member of the Another Gulf Is Possible Collaborative, working to envision just economies, vibrant communities, and sustainable ecologies.  She is co-producer of the documentary My Louisiana Love and her work has been featured in a variety of environmentally inspired projects, including the multiplatform performance Cry You One, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, and the Neighborhood Story Project’s 2020 collaborative book Return to Yakni Chitto : Houma Migrations.