Southern Tier NY

Hayden Haynes

Hayden Haynes

Hayden Haynes is an antler carving artist working deeply in cultural arts revitalization and teaching. Born in Claremore, OK, Hayden grew up on the Seneca-Cattaraugus Territory in Western New York. It is from here where he draws inspiration related to land, history,...

Vicie A. Rolling

Vicie A. Rolling

Vicie A. Rolling of "Framing the Past", is a storyteller and oral historian who concentrates on telling the stories of African American life in the twentieth century.  She says, "With historical research, I craft dialogue and narratives of their lives. I sometimes...

Akilah Briggs-Melvin

Akilah Briggs-Melvin

Step dance, also known as stepping, is a style of percussive dance where a dancer uses their entire body as an instrument to make rhythms and sounds through a mixture of footsteps, spoken words,and hand claps. Traditionally stepping was rooted and developed after the...