Naomi Natale

Naomi Natale, based in Albuquerque, NM, makes expansive, socially engaged art works centered around relationships & bringing people together. She has worked for 18+ years on multi-year, socially engaged projects rooted in activism and community organizing. “One Million Bones” was a social practice work in which over 150,000 people from 50 states and 30 countries created over 1,000,000 handmade bones to address genocides and mass atrocities in the world. They were installed on the National Mall in Washington, DC. “En la Luz,” a collaborative project based in Chile, addressed the reticence of people to talk about the 1973 coup d’état, and the silence resulting from two competing histories. It culminated in a “Constellation of Chilean Memory,” an intergenerational public art installation of handmade memory lanterns. “The Cradle Project,” a large-scale installation and social practice work, drew attention to orphaned and vulnerable children around the world. Natale was Co-Founder and Artistic Director of The Art of Revolution organization, and Lecturer in the Arts-in-Medicine program at Univ. of NM. She received a Rauschenberg Foundation Artist as Activist Fellowship, TED Senior Fellowship, Arts and Healing Network Award, and TED Global Fellowship.