On Wednesday, April 3, artists from the AMITIKATXI collective in Brazil came together virtually for a panel discussion. The artists created The Forest is Our Future, which Makes Us Grow in 2021, currently on view in Womb of the Earth: Cosmovision of the Rainforest. The discussion was in English and Portuguese.

AMITIKATXI is a collective of female artists from the Tiriyó, Katxuyana, and Txikiyana peoples (Tarëno and Pïrehno, in their own languages) from the Tumucumaque Indigenous land reserve in Pará state, and their neighbors, the Kahyana, Katxuyana, Tunayana, Wayana, and Aparai peoples.

The Forest is Our Future, which Makes Us Grow is an intricate depiction of a Sumaúma, the largest tree in the Amazon, which can grow as tall as 70 meters (approximately 230 feet), rendered in beads sewn onto the red fabric that makes up the skirts of women on feast days.