Gå’om Arts
by Melissa Taitano
Gå’om - a CHamoru word loosely translated as "that which moves and is inspired by spirit" is how Melissa chooses to describe her work. Inspired by the peoples and ecological landscapes of Micronesia, her work is a contemporary expression of the traditional arts of the region with the purpose of bridging time, places, spaces, and communities.
Melissa Taitano, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the University of Guam. She is a native Chamorro woman, born and raised in the northernmost village of Yigo, Guam. Dr. Taitano is also a Taan Gech traditional canoe carver and Pwo navigator sailing under mast of the Micronesian School of Weriyeng. Her general research interests include cultural memory, Micronesian indigenous knowledge systems and technologies, traditional spaces of knowledge production, and archival theoretical development. She received her doctoral degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Education, Department of Information Studies.
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