A Convening: Native Mapping Strategies of Resistance
with Shayla Blatchford, Jeremy Dennis, and Daisy Quezada Ureña moderated by Tracy Fenix
Join artists Shayla Blatchford, Jeremy Dennis, and Daisy Quezada Ureña for a roundtable dialogue moderated by Tracy Fenix, curator. This conversation brings together artists whose creative practices utilize mapping as a strategy of resistance—countering state violence, erasure, and land dispossession. Together, they will discuss the challenges of hyper-surveillance, share methods for reclaiming place and narrative, and explore how collective mapping can mobilize power and visibility in the face of ongoing systemic oppression.
Daisy Quezada Ureña will share insights from her bosque brotante publication, which documents three conversations held along the Rio Grande in 2019. She will also discuss her work with Present Cartographers, a collective amplifying strategies and perspectives from artists and writers navigating the global migration crisis and the resurgence of territorial claims across border zones.
Jeremy Dennis (Shinnecock), 2025 Community of Practice AIR, will present On This Site, an art-based photography and mapping project that preserves and raises awareness of culturally significant Native American locations across Long Island, New York.
Shayla Blatchford, based in Santa Fe, will discuss the Anti-Uranium Mapping Project—a vital initiative documenting the uranium mining era from a Native perspective throughout the Southwest. Through a growing database of maps, oral histories, and archival materials, the project envisions an energy future guided by tribal sovereignty and the stewardship of natural resources on Native lands.
About the Moderator
Tracy Fenix, 2025 Community of Practice AIR, is a queer Native Tejana and 2025 Community of Practice artist-in-residence whose work explores the cultural and historical legacies of queer BIPOC communities in the built and imagined environment. Their ongoing project Mud Kin maps adobe and land art projects by Indigenous and Latinx artists across California and the Southwest. Tracy holds dual master’s degrees in Urban Planning and Art & Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere from the University of Southern California.
Free and open to the public
Questions: residency@sfai.org
Date
November 7
Time
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
