A campus initiative to support arts-centric research and project development.
A campus initiative to support arts-centric research and project development.
Dr. Vincent Whipple is an American Indian performing artist and educator who has worked in Southern California tribal communities for over 30 years. He is an enrolled member of the Navajo Tribe of Arizona and is also descended from the Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota.
Dr. Whipple has served as the Director of Tribal Relations for California State University, San Bernardino, and he has been the Artistic Director for the Wichozani Native American Dance & Theater Company, a Southern California based theater group focusing on cultural revitalization through Native music, dance, theater, and storytelling.
In September 2021, Whipple hosted an artist talk entitled Native American Arts and Advocacy: An Artist Talk to share his art and discuss the influences that shaped his work, including the intergenerational passage of Native American artistic traditions.
The artist talk can be viewed below: