This exhibition is a platform to highlight the work led by the Indigenous Womxn’s Collective fellows. Each fellow identified a topic or issue important to them and facilitated an event in partnership with campus and community partners.
The mission of the Indigenous Womxn’s Collective (IWC) is to empower future leaders by leveraging Indigenous womxn’s shared stories, lived experiences, and intersectionality through intergenerational exchange and collaboration. Program initiatives guide and develop leaders through service-oriented projects while creating a collective of womxn supporting womxn.
Exhibition is by the American Indian Resource Center at the University of Utah.
In the month of Ramadan, the Quran was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of sawm, or fasting, prayer, reflection, and community. A commemoration of the first revelation, the annual observance of Ramadan is regarded as one of the Five Pillars of Islam and lasts twenty-nine to thirty days, from one sighting of the crescent moon to the next.
This year, the Rare Books Department, in partnership with the Al Mustafa Foundation of Utah, invite you to celebrate Utah’s Muslim Community with a showing of our unique and exquisite Qurans from around the world.
Kiya Green, a Modern Dance and World Languages & Culture double-major, recently held the U of U Black Faculty & Staff Association research internship. She conducted original research about the history of diversity within the School of Dance at the University of Utah and uncovered the impactful contemporary story of Dr. Joselli Deans (the first Black ballet professor at the U of U) as well as heroic acts of graduate students Alex Barbier and Irishia Hubbard.
Kiya’s research is currently being shown as part of the University of Utah’s Unsung Heroes exhibition on level 1 at Marriott Library. The exhibition will be up until April 1st, 2024.
Check out an interview with Kiya Green here.