Visualizing Chamoru

Visualizing new vocabulary is an essential tool of language learning. Being a visual artist that is also a language nerd, I have started to incorporate new vocabulary into my artwork and I’ve made a couple visual vocabulary sheets along the way.

Chamoru, illustration, Guam, indigenous languageKameko BranchaudFebruary 23, 2021indigenous language, Chamoru, visualizing language, visual vocabulary, Chamoru vocabularyComment

Los Ladrones: How Historic Maps Illustrate What It Means To be An American

Historic maps are beautiful artifacts from oftentimes ugly eras. For many of us, European discovery meant genocide, and displacement for the survivors. The maps remind us how land has been exchanged between governments throughout the generations, how borders move, and how colonizing powers control the narrative.

Guam, maps, colonizationKameko BranchaudJuly 19, 2020Guam, indigenous, prutehiltekyan, liberationday, maps, historicmaps, americanidentity, losladrones, colonization, selfdetermination, historic maps, antique maps, primary sourceComment

In Defense of Guam's "Percent for Art" Law

Response to a Pacific Daily News (PDN) article in which Guam's Percent for Art law is inaccurately characterized. In this response I provide historical context of why the program exists, and why it's so important to Guam's creative economy.