Collective Resistance

Faculty Forum

Artist Adela Goldbard, Associate Professor in RISD's Experimental and Foundation Studies, and her collaborator, Marcela Ortega, discuss their work, Nochixtlán with Kate Irvin, Curator of Costume & Textiles. Nochixtlán, a needle-felted wool triptych commemorates a bloody conflict within Oaxaca, Mexico. In 2016, federal police attacked teachers and allies protesting educational reforms that denied better working conditions and threatened to suppress Indigenous narratives.