MADAYIN: LAND AND LINEAGE
Charlottesville Indigenous Art Takeover 2024
Mayatili Marika will deliver the W. Wanambi Distinguished Lecture in the Dome Room of the Rotunda on Feb 3 at 4 pm, followed by a reception in the Upper West Oval Room. Marika is a Rirratjingu Traditional Owner and Yolŋu woman based in northeast Arnhem Land. Part of a new generation of leadership for Yolŋu people, she is a bilingual leader and advocate who is involved in the education pipeline for Yolŋu people in the region. Her lecture ties in with two of Kluge-Ruhe’s exhibitions of Yolŋu art at the University of Virginia this spring, Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Paintings from Yirrkala at The Fralin Museum of Art, Feb 3 – Jul 14, 2024, and Waŋupini: Clouds of Remembrance and Return in the Upper West Oval Room of the Rotunda, Jan 8 – July 8, 2024.
If you are unable to join in person in Charlottesville, you can tune in virtually at Kluge-Ruhe’s YouTube Channel.