Artists at the Farmhouse: Casey Brown and Julia Pello In Conversation

Casey Brown and Julia Pello will show excerpts from two of their films in progress, including “Indian Mounds in a Year,” a documentary on Indigenous earthworks from a Native perspective. The film includes footage shot at mound sites near Muscoda.

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Casey Brown served as Executive Public Relations Officer for the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin, where he won an Emmy Award for Exploring the Artistic Process of Truman Lowe. A lifelong advocate for American Indian rights, Casey is a filmmaker, comedian, and musician. He also serves as Vice President of Chicago’s Koz Park Advisory Council. Last fall his talk sold out so quickly we had to offer a second one the next day. Please check out highlights from his talk on our Crosscurrents YouTube channel.

Julia Pello, a refugee from the former Soviet Union, is an interdisciplinary media artist, filmmaker, and educator. Her practice involves historical research that addresses problematic national narratives to articulate complex layers of local histories. She received the Wexner Fellowship for Post-Production in 2018 and a DCASE Individual Artist Grant in 2022. Her first feature film, These Sounds Mark the Placements of an Inner World–shot in the archives and historical locations of the early modernist poet and Wisconsin resident Lorine Niedecker–premiered in competition at FIDMarseille in 2024. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2018 and has worked closely with inter-tribal American Indian/First Nations/Indigenous communities in Chicago, the greater midwest region and Canada for over ten years. She is a professor and filmmaker in residence at Northwestern University. Click here to read a fascinating interview with Julia about her feature film. 

Crosscurrents Heritage Center

14640 State Highway 60

Port Andrew, WI 53518

(The first farm west of the Blue River Bridge on Highway 60)