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This Week in OMSA
A Message from an OMSA Student Leader
Joe Trujillo
MOSAIC Educator
Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day!
Oct 11  | 11:30 am-1:30 pm | OMSA (Wyllie D180)
Today, more states, cities, and communities than ever will observe Indigenous Peoples Day. Generations of Native People throughout the Western Hemisphere have protested Columbus Day for many years, as it represents the colonization of the Americas which led to the killings of millions of Native people and the forced assimilation of survivors. Today, we recognize that Native people are the first inhabitants of the Americas, including the lands that later became the United States of America.
 
Please check out some of these resources for more information!
Happy National Coming out Day!
Oct 11  | 11:30 am-1:30 pm | LGBTQ Resource Center (Wyllie D170)

Today, we celebrate the individuals who are brave and strong enough to come out and identify in the LGBTQ+ community! Also, we advocate for the need for a safe space to come out. On October 11, 1987, 500,000 people participated in the March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. During this period, over a hundred LGBTQ+ identifying individuals gathered outside Washington, DC, and decided on creating a national day to celebrate coming out, this was the beginning of the National Holiday.

Check out these resources for more information!
Celebrate each of these days by joining us for conversation and food in the LGBTQ Resource Center and the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm today.
Participate in a MOSAIC Workshop: Walk the Line: A Lesson in Privilege
Oct 11  | 12-1 pm | MOLN L116
Join this in-person workshop and learn the impact of privilege/advantage through a demonstrative experience. or attend virtually, on Tuesday, October 12 from 2 pm-3 pm.

Register here for the in-person workshop.

Register here for the virtual workshop.

Artist Talk with Rafael Francisco Salas
Oct 12  | 1-3:20 pm | Main Stage, Rita
Rafael Francisco Salas is a Wisconsin based artist. He combines landscape, the legacy of portraiture, architecture, and country music into artwork that evokes a strange, rural poetry. It reflects a personal journey of mixed race identity, conflict, beauty and devotion played out on the vast landscapes of rural Wisconsin.

His work has been exhibited in New York City, San Diego, Boston, as well as many venues in the Midwest including The Neville Public Museum, The Museum of Wisconsin Art, The John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Dean Jensen gallery, Circa Gallery and Frank Juarez Gallery. His work is represented by Portrait Society Gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Salas has also worked as an art critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Newcity Art in Chicago and Urban Milwaukee. Salas is a professor of art at Ripon College in Ripon, WI.
Register for the Internship & Career Fair and the Career Launch Panels on Handshake
Oct 11-27
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