ART
interview by BILL POWERS
all artwork courtesy of NATALIE BALL and HALE GALLERY
born and raised in a black neighborhood in portland, oregon, artist natalie ball relocated to her ancestral native american homeland to embrace a sustainable art practice and raise her three children, teaching them the art of stinta, an ancient word for love in her tribe’s language.
BILL POWERS — Where did your love of art come from?
NATALIE BALL — I was 21 and had just started college at the University of Oregon when I saw the video Couple in the Cage: Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West, by artists Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña, for their exhibition “The Year of the White Bear and Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West.” That’s when I fell in love with art and started focusing on making art.
BILL POWERS — Do you think that, culturally, there are…