Nancy Marie Mithlo

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Nancy Marie Mithlo is a Chiricahua Apache curator, writer, and professor. Mithlo has worked as the chair of American Indian Studies at the Autry National Center Institute and as a professor of gender studies and American Indian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author and editor of several books about Native Americans and Indigenous art. Her exhibitions have been shown concurrently with the Venice Biennale.

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Biography

Mithlo is Chiricahua Apache, is enrolled in the Fort Sill Apache Tribe, and has family in Apache, Oklahoma. [1] She was born in 1961 and grew up in Mississippi. [2]

Mithlo attended the Institute of American Indian Arts and earned her bachelor's degree from Appalachian State University in 1986, and her master's degree in anthropology from Stanford University in 1988. In 1993, she earned a doctorate in cultural anthropology from Stanford University. [3]

Work

Mithlo has worked as the chair of American Indian Studies at the Autry National Center Institute. [4] She has worked as a professor of gender studies and American Indian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. [5]

Mithlo has helped curate and create nine collateral exhibitions during the Venice Biennale. [3] Two exhibitions, "Air, Land, Seed" and "Octopus Dreams," were shown during the 2013 Venice Biennale. [6] In the exhibition, "The People's Home: The United American Indian Involvement Photographic Project" held at These Days Gallery in 2019, Mithlo looks into how Native Americans live in modern Los Angeles. [7]

Mithlo edited Manifestations: New Native Art Criticism in 2011. [8] Native Peoples magazine wrote that Manifestations contained "an excellent cross-section of the Indigenous art community today." [8] The Wíčazo Ša Review discusses how Manifestations focuses on how mentorship and continuity are important aspects of Indigenous art. [9] In 2014, Mithlo edited a book about the work of Horace Poolaw, For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw. [10] The Daily Beast called the book "an outstanding work of scholarship and a commanding visual document." Mithlo edited Making History, published by UNM Press, in late 2020. Mithlo describes the purpose of Making History is to provide "a scaffold of resources for emerging Native arts scholars, Native and non-Native readers, students, and academics who wish to understand the tenor and tone of what this field is about and how to approach teaching and learning about American Indian arts." [11]

Selected bibliography

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References

  1. ↑ Weatherford, Elizabeth (July 2010). "Nancy Marie Mithlo". Native American Film + Video Festival. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
  2. ↑ Mithlo, Nancy Marie (2020). Knowing Native Arts. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. p. 200. ISBN   978-1-4962-02123.
  3. 1 2 "Nancy Marie Mithlo". TLAXCALA. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
  4. ↑ Weideman, Paul (15 August 2014). "A Gaze of Intelligence: The Photos of Native Visionary Horace Poolaw". Santa Fe New Mexican. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
  5. ↑ Thackara, Tess (2019-05-31). "The Hand of Native American Women, Visible at Last". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-08-24.
  6. ↑ Pulkka, Wesley (11 August 2013). "Poignant Shows at 516 Arts". Albuquerque Journal. p. 37. Retrieved 2020-08-24– via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ Centeno, Jimmy (2019-02-27). "The People's Home: The United American Indian Involvement Photographic Project". Sounds and Colours. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
  8. 1 2 Krol, Debra Utacia (September 2012). "Manifestations: New Native Art Criticism" . Native People's Magazine: 64 – via EBSCOhost.
  9. ↑ McGeough, Michelle (2012). "Indigenous Curatorial Practices and Methodologies". Wíčazo Ša Review. 27 (1): 13. doi:10.5749/wicazosareview.27.1.0013.
  10. ↑ Birnbaum, Robert (2014-12-13). "The Best Coffee Table Books of 2014". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
  11. ↑ Making history : the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts : Institute of American Indian Arts. Nancy Marie Mithlo. Albuquerque. 2020. p. 1. ISBN   978-0-8263-6210-0. OCLC   1154100532.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
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