Rye Purvis is originally from Moriarty, New Mexico and is enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. She is a PhD Candidate in the Native American Studies Department at University of California, Davis. Rye received an Associates of Science in the Funeral Service Education program at American River College in December 2023, and a Bachelors of Fine Art in Painting from San Francisco Art Institute in 2011.
Her research and writing centers Tribal and Indigenous practices in burial and funerary support, as well as intentionally setting space for healing and grief support that reflects Native American and Indigenous methodologies and epistemologies including land-informed practices. She started Native American and Indigenous Deathcare Autonomy (NAIDCA) as a community resource and an ongoing project and co-hosts the Decolonizing Death Cafe with Dr. Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner (Luiseño & Cupeño). Rye will be interweaving her artwork throughout her dissertation work at UC Davis this upcoming year.
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21 окт 2024
