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Place-Based Media Arts





Place-Based Media Arts is assisting students to create media arts projects that are meaningful for themselves and their community.

Media Literacy


Media Literacy is an essential collection of skills that give students the ability to effectively read and write media.  UNESCO defines it as, "the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and produce communication and information in a variety of forms and means." 

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Students Engaging in their Communities and Cultures,  Participating in Global Conversations, 
Creating Award-Winning Film Projects.

Featured Film

RedBird Saves the Corn
A young traditional Navajo Spider Woman story retold through Lightbox Animation by STAR School students Larissa Luther, Taylor Long, Makyla Allison. Story learned through the Voices Native Literature program, "Zinnia: How the Corn was Saved" by Patricia Hruby Powell. Demonstration of integration of Native Literature, Literacy, and Place-Based Media Arts under the direction of Rachel Tso. Youth Mentors Camille Manybeads Tso and Kira Butler.
This film is an official selection of: 
The Red Nation Film Festival in Los Angeles
The American Indian film Festival in San Francisco
The Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival, 
and shown as a part of the Museum of Northern Arizona Navajo Show
and NAU Native American and Indigenous Film Series