Kojiro Umezaki

Umezaki’s research and creative activity is rooted in 20+ years of performance and social action with Silkroad, a music organization that seeks to foster local and global social change by bringing together artists from diverse traditions to investigate the transformative power of music, art, and education. An extension of this work, initially through Turnaround Arts, is a longstanding relationship with middle and high school students at the Lame Deer School on Northern Cheyenne lands, where intercultural and multi-arts approaches to music and storytelling emphasize collaborative authorship with youth in historically isolated communities.