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<p>I realize that this Commencement will be held on a Saturday, but I thought that some of you may still be interested in hearing Joy Harjo, the Poet Laureate of the US, speak.  The ceremony will be virtual, but I think that we are getting used to having important

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<p>Best wishes,<br>

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<p>Faye Hadley<br>

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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 14, 2020 2:23 PM<br>

<b>To:</b> Hadley, Faye, DCA<br>

<b>Subject:</b> [EXT] US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo to Deliver IAIA Commencement Address</font>

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<div><span>Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA)  </span></div>

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<div><span>to be Delivered by  </span></div>

   United States Poet Laureate and IAIA Alumna<br>

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<div><b><span style="font-size:16pt">Saturday, August 22, 2020 at 11:00 am MDT</span></b></div>

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<span><span style="color:#000000">Two-term United States Poet Laureate and IAIA Alumna<b> Joy Harjo </b><span style="background-color:#ffffff; text-align:center">(Mvskoke Nation) '68 </span></span>has been selected to give the Institute of American Indian Arts'

 2020 <strong>commencement address</strong> at 11:00 am on Saturday, August 22, 2020</span><span>.  </span></div>

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<span style="border:0px; padding:0px; margin:0px; font-variant:inherit; color:inherit; font-weight:inherit; vertical-align:baseline; line-height:inherit; font-style:inherit">After consulting with New Mexico health authorities, faculty, staff, and students,

 IAIA has made the difficult decision to conduct a <strong>virtual graduation ceremony.</strong> As with other changes resulting from the pandemic, this one is especially disappointing for everyone at IAIA that have been looking forward to an in-person celebration

 in honor of the class of 2020's achievements.   <strong>However, the safety and health of the students and the IAIA community have remained the highest priority.   </strong></span></div>

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<strong>recorded and live-streamed speeches from the class Valedictorian, MFA Creative Writing Program student speaker, Faculty of the Year, IAIA President Dr. Robert Martin

</strong>(Cherokee)<strong>, Board of Trustees Chair Loren Kieve</strong> (Cherokee),<strong> and Joy Harjo</strong>.   </span></div>

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<span style="border:0px; padding:0px; margin:0px; font-variant:inherit; color:black; font-weight:inherit; vertical-align:baseline; line-height:inherit; font-style:inherit">The program also will be comprised of a video montage announcing each

<strong>graduating student in their cap and gowns or regalia</strong> as well as honor songs and footage of students, staff and faculty.  </span><span style="border:0px; padding:0px; margin:0px; font-variant:inherit; color:inherit; font-weight:inherit; vertical-align:baseline; line-height:inherit; font-style:inherit">In

 addition to participating in this virtual ceremony, graduates will have the option to take part in the

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 Harjo will also be awarded </span><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow","Arial MT Condensed Light",sans-serif">an

<strong>Honorary Doctorate of Humanities </strong>degree during the ceremony. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Arial Narrow","Arial MT Condensed Light",sans-serif">Previous recipients of the IAIA Honorary Doctor of Humanities Degree have included

 notable persons such as <strong>Roxanne Swentzell</strong> (Santa Clara Pueblo), <strong>George Rivera </strong>(Pojoaque Pueblo), <strong>Dan Namingha</strong> (Hopi-Tewa), <strong>Kevin Red Star</strong> (Crow), <strong>Suzan Harjo </strong>(Cheyenne/Hodulgee

 Muscogee), <strong>James Luna </strong>(Luise�o), <strong>N. Scott Momaday</strong> (Kiowa), <strong>Tony Abeyta </strong>(Navajo), <strong>Dave Warren</strong> (Santa Clara Pueblo), <strong>David Bradley</strong> (Minnesota Chippewa Tribe), and <strong>Linda

 Lomahaftewa</strong> (Hopi/Choctaw).</span></span></div>

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 of the Mvskoke Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv (Hick�o�ry Ground). Born in Tul�sa, Okla�homa, she left home to attend high school at the inno�v�a�tive

<strong>Insti�tute of Amer�i�can Indi�an Arts</strong>. Har�jo began writ�ing poet�ry as a mem�ber of the

<strong>Uni�ver�si�ty of New Mexico's Native stu�dent orga�ni�za�tion, the Kiva Club</strong>, in response to Native empow�er�ment move�ments. She went on to earn her MFA at the

<strong>Iowa Writ�ers' Work�shop</strong> and teach Eng�lish, Cre�ative Writ�ing, and Amer�i�can Indi�an Stud�ies at

<strong>Uni�ver�si�ty of Cal�i�for�nia-Los Ange�les, Uni�ver�si�ty of New Mex�i�co, Uni�ver�si�ty of Ari�zona, Ari�zona State, Uni�ver�si�ty of Illi�nois, Uni�ver�si�ty of Col�orado, Uni�ver�si�ty of Hawai'i, Insti�tute of Amer�i�can Indi�an Arts</strong>,

 and<strong> Uni�ver�si�ty of Ten�nessee</strong>, while per�form�ing music and poet�ry nation�al�ly and internationally.</span></div>

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Har�jo is the author of nine books of poet�ry, includ�ing her most recent, the high�ly acclaimed <em><strong>An Amer�i�can Sun�rise</strong></em> (2019); <em><strong>Con�flict Res�o�lu�tion for Holy Beings</strong></em> (2015), which was short�list�ed for the

 Grif�fin Prize and named a Notable Book of the Year by the Amer�i�can Library Asso�ci�a�tion; <em><strong>The Woman Who Fell From the Sky</strong></em> (1994), which received the Okla�homa Book Award; and <em><strong>In Mad Love and War</strong></em> (1990),

 which received an Amer�i�can Book Award and the Del�more Schwartz Memo�r�i�al Award. Her mem�oir, <em><strong>Crazy Brave</strong></em>, was award�ed the PENUSA Lit�er�ary Award in Cre�ative Non Fic�tion and the Amer�i�can Book Award. She has also pub�lished

 two award-win�ning children's books, The <em><strong>Good Luck Cat</strong></em> and <em><strong>For a Girl Becom�ing;</strong></em> a col�lab�o�ra�tion with photographer/ astronomer Stephen Strom; an anthol�o�gy of North Amer�i�can Native women's writ�ing;

 sev�er�al screen�plays and col�lec�tions of prose inter�views; and three plays, includ�ing <em><strong>Wings of Night Sky,</strong>

<strong>Wings of Morn�ing Light,</strong> <strong>A Play</strong></em>, which she toured as a one-woman show and was recent�ly pub�lished by Wes�leyan Press. She is Exec�u�tive Edi�tor of the forth�com�ing anthol�o�gy <strong><em>When the Light of the World

 was Sub�dued, Our Songs Came Through - A Nor�ton Anthol�o�gy of Native Nations Poet�ry</em></strong>, to be released in 2020.<br>

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Har�jo per�forms on sax�o�phone and flutes -- solo and with her band, the <strong>Arrow Dynam�ics Band</strong>, and pre�vi�ous�ly with <strong>Joy Har�jo and Poet�ic Jus�tice.</strong> She/they have toured across the U.S. and in Europe, South Amer�i�ca, India,

 Africa, and Cana�da. Har�jo has pro�duced five award-win�ning music albums includ�ing <em><strong>Wind�ing Through the Milky Way</strong></em>, for which she was award�ed a NAM�MY for Best Female Artist of the year.</span></div>

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<strong>Harjo's awards for poet�ry</strong> include the Ruth Lily Prize for Life�time Achieve�ment from the Poet�ry Foun�da�tion, the Acad�e�my of Amer�i�can Poets Wal�lace Stevens Award, the New Mex�i�co Governor's Award for Excel�lence in the Arts, a PENUSA Lit�er�ary

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In addi�tion to serv�ing as U.S. Poet Lau�re�ate, Har�jo is a chan�cel�lor of the

<strong>Acad�e�my of Amer�i�can Poets</strong>, holds a <strong>Tul�sa Artist Fel�low�ship</strong>, directs <strong>For Girls Becom�ing</strong>, an arts men�tor�ship pro�gram for young Mvskoke women, and is a found�ing board mem�ber of the

<strong>Native Arts and Cul�tures Foun�da�tion</strong>. She lives in Tul�sa, Oklahoma.</span></div>

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<div><strong>IAIA President Dr. Robert Martin</strong> (Cherokee) commented<span> </span><span style="font-size:12pt">"</span><span class="markq1hpef7ph SSBqA0O5vTLfa9GC1wxGQ" style="border:0px; padding:0px 1px; margin:0px; vertical-align:baseline; font-size:12pt; line-height:inherit">Congratulations</span><span style="background-color:#ffffff; color:#323130; font-size:12pt"> Class

 of 2020!   I express my heartfelt gratitude and pride for the resilience and determination they have demonstrated in confronting the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.  Their success in completing the academic year and graduating is testament to

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<div><span style="background-color:#ffffff; color:#323130; font-size:12pt">I applaud each and every one of them for remaining focused on achieving their academic goal of earning a postsecondary degree or certificate. I</span><span style="font-size:12pt">t is

 also an incredible honor for IAIA and our 2020 graduating class for Joy to join us on this day of celebration to deliver the commencement address.  Also, the awarding of an honorary doctorate will provide an opportunity for IAIA to acknowledge and express

 our admiration to one of our alumna for her outstanding contributions to IAIA, Native arts and cultures, New Mexico, and the nation".</span></div>

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<div>Offering undergraduate degrees in <strong style="font-size:11pt">Studio Arts, Creative Writing, Cinematic Arts and Technology, Indigenous Liberal Studies, Museum Studies,</strong><span style="font-size:11pt"> and </span><strong style="font-size:11pt">Performing

 Arts</strong><span style="font-size:11pt"> -- an </span><strong style="font-size:11pt">MFA in Creative Writing</strong><span style="font-size:11pt"> -- along with certificates in </span><strong style="font-size:11pt">Business and Entrepreneurship, Museum Studies,</strong><span style="font-size:11pt">

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