Jana Harper
Collaborating Artist

Jana Harper (Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians) is an interdisciplinary artist of mixed settler and indigenous ancestry. Her work explores the themes and tensions between materiality and transcendence, chance encounters and human willfulness, relationships and connectivity, and human acts of meaning making. With a background in somatic practices, Harper works both individually and collaboratively towards establishing conditions for healing. Recent performance projects included Cargas, the closing event for Intermittent Rivers at the 2019 Havana Biennial and This Holding, which was supported by a National Endowment for the Arts award. Jana is associate professor of the practice in the department of art at Vanderbilt University.

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