Autumn Star Chacon | 2018 AIP Fellow

Tribal Affiliation: Diné/Chicana

Artistic Discipline: Activist, Community Organizer, Agriculturist, and Multimedia & Performance Artist

Albuquerque, NM

Autumn Star Chacon is a Diné/Chicana activist, community organizer, agriculturist and multimedia and performance artist from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Chacon looks for traditional philosophy in contemporary stories and experiences drawing from her early career as a television producer, her ar often includes electronic sound, sound installations, and unconventional radio frequencies in which she creates environments where an audience is free to control how much of her work they wish to receive. Autumn strives to make work that reflects her natural environment and to give voice to those around her that often live unheard.