Join Americans for the Arts in honoring G. Peter Jemison as the 2023 recipient of the Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities. Attend in-person or virtually for Artists as Community Catalysts: a conversation with G. Peter Jemison and John Haworth, on November 29, 2023, at 6:30 p.m. ET, hosted at the REACH at the Kennedy Center in the Justice Forum.

Since 2018, the Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities has supported individual artists or culture bearers working to impact community or social transformation. The 2023 Johnson Fellowship focused on those working in rural communities.

This year’s event will feature a conversation with G. Peter Jemison and long-time Americans for the Arts board member, John Haworth (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma), and will focus on Jemison’s journey as a contemporary Seneca whose work is rooted in the framework of Native American art, and how this has influenced his political and community activism. His advocacy has led to the establishment of the Ganondagan State Historic Site and the Seneca Art and Culture Center in Victor, NY. This is the only New York State Historic Site dedicated to a Native American theme (1987), and the only Seneca town developed and interpreted in the United States.

The Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities is supported by the Robert and Laurel Johnson Trust in recognition of their belief that artists, when given the opportunity and resources, can create real pathways for change.

We hope you can join us!