Just back from trip to Washington DC with my NM Coordinator for RTD and daughter Liesette Paisner. Liesette and I were at the pre-meeting for RTD Coordinators and Martin Luther King III's Summit to Realize the Dream the next day with lions of the Civil Rights Movement like Dick Gregory and Congressman John Lewis, as well as other peace and civil rights activists. It was an inspiring and historic event.
Current.tv broadcast the third item for their news pod on solar energy from Bill Brown at NewMexicoGlobalWarming.org via Charleen Touchette at TouchArt.net
Watch it here -Chareen Touchette and S. Barry Paisner at Canyon de Chelly 2007Charleen Touchette at Canyon de Chelly Photo by S Barry Paisner 2007Liesette Paisner and Charleen Touchette with Martin Luther King III at Congress October 24, 2007Liesette Paisner with Martin Luther King III at Congress October 24, 2007Congressman Tom Udall with Liesette Paisner and Charleen Touchette, Longworth Congressional Building in DC, October 24, 2007Get your own slideshow on RingoArtist, Author, Mother of
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Charleen Touchette, Jacques Paisner and S. Barry PaisnerTouchArt Ltd.A network that connects progressive 21st century minds.TouchArt Books:TouchArt Books is an independent book publisher of progressive literature and art. Family owned and run. www.touchart.netIT STOPS WITH ME: MEMOIR OF A CANUCK GIRL by Artist Charleen Touchette won a ForeWord Book of the Year 2004 Finalist Award, critical acclaim by literary luminaries and leaders Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Louise Erdrich, Russell Means, Winona LaDuke and Margaret Randall.ALBUQUERQUE BLUES, Short Fiction and Plays by Jacques Paisner. Acclaimed first book of short fiction and plays by a 27 year old author.REAL & FAKE INDIANS (PD 2008) was awarded the Writers Show's First Chapter Contest Honorable Mention and has a cover by Cheyenne Artist Edgar Heap of Birds, Professor at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.Charleen TouchetteCharleen Touchette is an artist, writer, curator, art critic, educator, and activist. She is the President and founder of TouchArt Ltd. She is the first woman member of the Oppressionist Art Movement organized by Lakotah Indian artists Russell Means, James Starkey and Francis Yellow.“It Stops with Me†was banned in Touchette’s Hometown
In 2006, Touchette's award winning non-fiction book "It Stops with Me: Memoir of a Canuck Girl" was banned in her hometown library. The President of Bard College wrote in support of the book ban stating that Touchette (Bard 1975) book "did not deserve First Amendment Protection." Literary critics, and esteemed authors like Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Louise Erdrich and Winona LaDuke have lauded Touchette's book. ALA (American Library Association), PEN USA, PEN American Center, and the RI ACLU, challenged the book banning and the book was reinstated in the Woonsocket Harris Public Library.Touchette was awarded the Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA) 1998 President’s Award for her art, her contributions to the Feminist Art Movement, and her work and expertise on women’s, multicultural, and Native American art since the late 1970s. Touchette founded the Spiderwomen World Arts Network in 1990 and was featured in the University of Colorado at Boulder’s “What follows†video series in 2001. Touchette has organized and curated exhibits at museums nationwide, including the Queens Museum, Chicago Cultural Center, National Museum of Women in the Arts, New Mexico’s Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Institute of American Indian Arts, and Santa Fe Art Institute. Her art has been exhibited around the world, from New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) and Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art to the United Nations’ Palais de Nations in Geneva and Museo de Arte Comtemporanea in Brazil. Her writing and art have appeared in many books and periodicals and she is the author of NDN ART. Touchette lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with her husband and four children ages 17 to 27. Touchette is also a certified yoga teacher.
Mixed Blood Radio Host Charleen TouchetteMixed Blood Radio - Voices on Indigenous Arts and Politics Across the Americas is in production. Host Charleen Touchette and Producer Liesette Paisner toured Minnesota,
Mixed Blood Radio Producer Liesette Paisner with Juanita Espinosa's, August 2006 family in teepee at Mystic Lake Powwow in Shakopee, Minnesota.South Dakota and California gathering tape and interviews with Indian, Mixed Blood, and indigenous-minded artists, activists, and leaders including Winona LaDuke, Billy Warsoldier, Russell Means, Gary Farmer, Quincy Troupe and Tony B. Conscious.Russell Means interviewed for Mixed Blood Radio September 2006
Gary Farmer and Charleen Touchette at opening of GARY FARMER CONTEMPORARY ART 2006In 1998 Touchette was awarded the Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA) President’s Award for her contributions to the Feminist Art Movement, and her work and expertise on women’s, multicultural, and Native American art since the late 1970s. Touchette founded the Spiderwomen World Arts Network in 1990 and was featured in the University of Colorado at Boulder’s “What follows†video series in 2001.
Touchette has organized and curated exhibits at museums nationwide, including the Queens Museum, Chicago Cultural Center, National Museum of Women in the Arts, New Mexico’s Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Institute of American Indian Arts, and Santa Fe Art Institute. Her art has been exhibited around the world, from New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) and Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art to the United Nations’ Palais de Nations in Geneva and Museo de Arte Comtemporanea in Brazil. Her writing and art have appeared in many books and periodicals and she is the author of "ndn art" and with her husband attorney S. Barry Paisner of the forthcoming novel "Real & Fake Indians" winner of the First Chapter's 2006 Honorable Mention Award. Touchette lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with her husband and four children ages 17 to 27. Touchette is also a certified yoga teacher...
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