Living Artist Living Art (LALA) Presents Mike Dangeli

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The Visual Arts Department Presents, Living Artist Living Art (LALA) Guest Artist: Mike Dangeli Topic: Lugyetga’nu Da Na Goadu (Returning home to my heart): Reflections of Self-Decolonization as Reconciliation Bio: Mike Dangeli is of the Nisga’a, Tlingit, Tsetsaut, and Tsimshian Nations. He is a visual artist, singer, composer, dancer, and educator. Mike is in line to be a hereditary chief and has trained under the chiefs and matriarchs since his childhood. A renowned wood carver, painter, and designer, he began studying and creating his people’s art at an early age through traditional apprenticeships. His work is collected and exhibited throughout the world. For the past 20 years, Mike and his wife Dr. Mique’l Dangeli have trained three generations of dancers, singers and drummers in their dance group the Git Hayetsk. He has carved hundreds of masks and headdresses and made hand-painted leather regalia danced in the performances of Git Hayetsk as well as by many Nations and dance groups along the Northwest Coast.