Visual artist, writer and activist Ka’ila Farrell-Smith says she considers herself a wartime artist.
She is a member of the Klamath tribes and lives in Modoc Point, Oregon. When asked about how history influences her work, the answer weaves through over 150 years of white colonization and Indigenous struggles in the West:
She brings up the Modoc War of 1862, when Modoc war leaders resisted U.S. government forces for seven months in Southeastern Oregon and Northern California. She references the ...