Title
Interview with Ivan Watkins, Painter, Film Documentarian, Sculptor and Multimedia Artist Muralist.
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Description
Video interview with Ivan Watkins by Kim Vaz-Deville. Ivan Watkins, an artist, sculptor and multimedia artist muralist, member of the Northside Skull and Bone Gang and Wild Man for the Yellow Pocahontas Black masking Indians. He talked about his history of joining the Mardi Gras Indian group, the African spirituality, and his understanding of what it means to be part of the group.
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Publisher
Xavier University of Louisiana
City
New Orleans, Louisiana
Keywords
Mardi gras indians, New Orleans, Mardi Gras Indian suits, African diaspora
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Digital Humanities | Social and Cultural Anthropology
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Vaz-Deville, Kim and Thomas, Lexcie, "Interview with Ivan Watkins, Painter, Film Documentarian, Sculptor and Multimedia Artist Muralist." (2020). Mystery in Motion: African American Spirituality in Mardi Gras. 18.
https://digitalcommons.xula.edu/masked/18
Comments
Filmed and edited by Lexcie Thomas.
Produced and directed by Kim Vaz-Deville.
Time: 25 Minutes.