Honor and celebrate Indigenous culture during November, National Native American Heritage Month, and throughout the year as we live, learn and play on the traditonal homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone. SFPL has wonderful programs in store for you, from film screenings to arts and crafts workshops and more.
About the Artist
We are thrilled to showcase the artwork of fine art painter and muralist Felicia Gabaldon for this year’s First Person: Honoring Native and Indigenous Cultures campaign. Gabaldon’s paintings narrate the story of her identity as a Native American Indian with both Spanish and Mexican heritage.
Gabaldon’s work draws from the imagination a mythical and mystic part of the human experience in the natural world. Through cultural, iconic and folkloric content, her work expresses the wonders of nature realized through symbols and tradition. Her paintings represent the distant reverence of self-discovery, culture and historical elements.
Gabaldon is from Santa Fe, N.M. and currently resides in Berkeley, CA. She is a resident artist at Faultline Artspace in Oakland, CA. Gabaldon’s work can be seen in Bay Area galleries. She was one of three artists to install artwork at the Presidio Tunnel Tops as part of the Ancestral Futurism Public Art Mentorship. Find her on Instagram at @feliciagabaldonart.
Join us this month and throughout the year to honor the diversity, rich cultures, histories and storytelling traditions of Native Americans and Indigenous peoples.
Image: I left my heart in Santa Fe, painting by Felicia Gabaldon
Land Acknowledgment
The San Francisco Public Library Commission acknowledges that we occupy the unceded Ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples, who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula. We recognize that the Ramaytush Ohlone understand the interconnectedness of all things and have maintained harmony with nature for millennia. We honor the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples for their enduring commitment to wahrep, Mother Earth. As the Indigenous protectors of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. We recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. As uninvited guests, we affirm their sovereign rights as First Peoples and wish to pay our respects to the Ancestors, Elders and Relatives of the Ramaytush Community. We recognize to respectfully honor Ramaytush peoples we must embrace and collaborate meaningfully to record Indigenous knowledge in how we care for San Francisco and all its people.
Adopted by Resolution 2021-01.
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