Join us at the Center of Southwest Studies for a special artist talk with Diné photographer and curator, Rapheal Begay.

Rapheal is a “visual storyteller” based in Tségháhoodzání (Window Rock, Arizona), who uses cultural landscape photography, Indigenous storytelling traditions, and land-based knowledge to inform his creative practice, and to preserve memory and understanding found within the Diné way of life.

Rapheal will discuss his collaborative approach to creating ALL REZ: Kéyah, Hooghan, K’é, Iiná | Land, Home, Kinship, Life (The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and Axle Contemporary), the first traveling site-specific photography exhibition across the Navajo Nation. He was also co-curator of the highly acclaimed exhibition Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles (Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, 2023–2025). He holds a BFA in Photography with a minor in Arts Management and a Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of New Mexico.

This artist talk is connected to our yearlong series of programming under the “Power of Place” initiative, made possible with generous support from the Belonging Colorado initiative of The Denver Foundation and the Greater Good Science Center.