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Please help us in welcoming Averian Chee as the 2024 Summer Artist in Residency on The Farm at Coyote Crossing! Averian is a Member of IP3 as a Creative Resistance Trainer and Climb Trainer.  He comes from Nazlini valley, of the Dine Nation. As a young Artist and member of Black Sheep Art Collective (BSAC), Averian collaborated with local artists within indigenous territories across turtle island, painting murals in community spaces. For the past 15 years, Averian has continued to work in community in the form of skill shares and art builds with a focus on social and environmental struggles.

Since the beginning of Ave’s residency on The Farm at Coyote Crossing, he has been instrumental in assisting with land, garden, and sheep care. During the early months of 2024, a winter storm in the Pacific Northwest brought down two old growth Douglas Fir trees that destroyed both the house, our future office space, and shop, our future training space, and we’ve since been scrambling to prepare the land for future programming and events. With Ave’s leadership, and the hard work and dedication of our staff and volunteers, we were able to cut and clear the fallen trees, start the IP3 Dic Sa ‘a Maqs Geeladat (Good Relative) Memorial Garden, and begin a sheep care routine that includes sheering, feeding, tending and barn maintenance. Along with Ave’s assist in completing the IP3 conference room / building, he recently completed work on an IP3 mural that adorns the walls, and that represents both the landscape of the Pacific Northwest and cultural landscapes of tribes across Turtle Island.

IP3 is grateful for Ave’s contributions here on The Farm and for his commitment to the IP3 network, for his artistic vision, dedication to his craft, and for standing up for Indigenous Peoples here and everywhere. If you’d like to support Ave, you can find his work on Instagram @averian, or a quick Google search for articles and collaborations he’s done across Turtle Island. Big ups, Averian! We appreciate you.

In Solidarity,

Indigenous Peoples Power Project