DYLAN A.T. MINER
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF TRANSCULTURAL STUDIES
RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE IN THE ARTS & HUMANITIES
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
WWW.DYLANMINER.COM
CONTACT
C230J Snyder Hall
East Lansing, MI 48825-1106
aboqcs@r.postjobfree.com
DEGREES
Doctor of Philosophy 2007 The University of New Mexico Art History (Arts of the AmEricas)
DISSERTATION: With our Hearts in our Hands and Our Hands in the Soil :
AztlAn as Utopic Space in Chicana/o Art and Visual Culture
Master of Arts 2003 The University of New Mexico Latin American Studies
Bachelor of Arts 2000 Western Michigan University Studio Art (Magna Cum Laude)
2000 Western Michigan University Spanish (Magna Cum Laude)
Additional Study 2001 Universidad Nahuatl (Mexico) Indigenous Studies
Additional Study 1996 College for Creative Studies Design + Photography
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2007-presentAssistant Professor of Transcultural StudiesMichigan State University
Residential College in the Arts & Humanities
Associated Faculty American Indian Studies, Center for Latin American
& Caribbean Studies, Canadian Studies Center
201x Faculty Associate, Emerging Indigenous Voices Artist Residency Program
Hui No`eau Visual Arts Center, Maui, Hawai i (invited, pending fund ing)
2006-2007Visiting Instructor, University Honors The University of New Mexico
2005-2007Instructor, Art and Art History The University of New Mexico
2004-2007Elementary Art InstructorOur Montessori School
2006Adjunct Faculty, Humanities College of Santa Fe
2004Graduate Assistant, Art and Art History The University of New Mexico
PUBLICATIONS BOOKS
200x Creating AztlAn: Chicana/o Art, Radical Politics and Indigenous Utopianism
Under contract with University of Arizona Press, pa rt of Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-
funded First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies initiative.
PUBLICATIONS PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES + BOOK CHAPTERS
2010 When they Awaken : Indigeneity, Miscegenation, and Anti-Colonial Visuality,
DamiAn
Baca and Victor Villanueva, eds. Rhetorics of the AmEricas, 3114 BCE to 2012 CE (New
York:
Palgrave MacMillan): 169-196.
2009 Provocations on Sneakers: The Multiple Meanings of Athletic Shoes, Sport, Race, and
Masculinity. CR: The New Centennial Review 9, vol. 2: 73-108.
2009 From Aztlan to Red River: The Continental and Comparative Cultures of Chicana/o and
MEtis Anti-Colonialism. Denis Gagnon, ed. Colloque Gabriel Dumont: Histoire et identitE
mEtisses (Winnipeg, MB: Les Presses Universitaires de Saint-Boniface): 185-199.
2008 Straddling la otra frontera: Revisioning Chicana/o Art History Through MiChicana/o
Visual
Culture, AztlAn: The Journal of Chicano Studies (Spring): 89-122.
2005 El renegado comunista : Diego Rivera, la Liga de Obreros y Campesinos and Mexican
Repatriation in Detroit, Third Text, November 2005: 647-660.
PUBLICATIONS REVIEWS
2009 Review: Kevin B. Witherspoon, Before the Eyes of the World: Mexico and the 1968
Olympics
(Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois, 2008), Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes
d histoire 44:2 (Autumn).
PUBLICATIONS TRANSLATIONS
2005 The Latin American Left and Diego Rivera s Political Contribution, translation
from
Spanish, Alberto HIjar, Third Text, November 2005: 637-646.
PUBLICATIONS ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
2009 Indigenous Radicalism, Ed. Immanuel Ness, International Encyclopedia of Protest
and
Revolution (Boston: Blackwell); 3,200 words.
2009 Mujeres Creando, Ed. Immanuel Ness, International Encyclopedia of Protest and
Revolution, Updated ed. (Boston: Blackwell, forthcoming); 500 words, online only.
2009 Margarita Ortega, Ed. Immanuel Ness, International Encyclopedia of Protest and
Revolution, Updated ed. (Boston: Blackwell, forthcoming); 250 words, online only.
2009 Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Ed. Immanuel Ness, International Encyclopedia of Protest
and
Revolution, Updated ed. (Boston: Blackwell, forthcoming); 350 words, online only.
2008 AztlAn, Ed. Luz Elena RamIrez, Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature (New
York:
Facts on File); 1,000 words.
2008 AztlAn, Ed. Andrew Wood, The Borderlands: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Politics
on
the U.S.-Mexico Divide (Westport, CT: Greenwood); 1,500.
2008 Chicana/o Movement, Ed. Andrew Wood, The Borderlands: An Encyclopedia of Culture
and Politics on the U.S.-Mexico Divide (Westport, CT: Greenwood); 1,500 words.
2008 Industrial Workers of the World, Ed. Andrew Wood, The Borderlands: An Encyclopedia
of
Culture and Politics on the U.S.-Mexico Divide (Westport, CT: Greenwood); 1,000 words.
2008 Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/o de AztlAn (MEChA), Ed. Andrew Wood, The
Borderlands: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Politics on the U.S.-Mexico Divide (Westport,
CT: Greenwood); 1,000 words.
2007 CEsar ChAvez, Eds. Gary L. Anderson and Kathryn Herr, Encyclopedia of Activism and
Social Justice (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage); 1,500 words.
2007 Grape Boycotts, Eds. Gary L. Anderson and Kathryn Herr, Encyclopedia of Activism
and
Social Justice (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage); 500 words.
2007 Mural Art, Eds. Gary L. Anderson and Kathryn Herr, Encyclopedia of Activism and
Social
Justice (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage); 500 words.
PUBLICATIONS FORTHCOMING
2010 Essays on Diego Romero, Will Wilson, Jason LujAn, and Jean Lamarr. Nancy Mithlo, ed.
Vision Project: Toward an Indigenous Art History (Santa Fe: Institute for American Indian
Arts): final drafts accepted by editor, funded by Ford Foundation.
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2011 Hasta la Victoria (Deportista) Siempre : Revolution, Art, and the Representation of
Sport in
Cuban Visual Culture, International Journal of the History of Sport : final draft
accepted by
editors.
2011 Hasta la Victoria (Deportista) Siempre : Revolution, Art, and the Representation of
Sport in
Cuban Visual Culture, In Mike Huggins and Mike O Mahony, eds. The Visual in Sport
(New York: Routledge): final draft accepted by editors. Reprint of International Journal
of
the History of Sport article.
2011 Fourth Cinema as Radical Alternative: A Continental Approach to Indigenous
Documentary
Cinema Susan Sleeper-Smith, ed. Indigenous Voice in Film (Lincoln: University of
Nebraska); early draft presented at CIC -AISC symposium, accepted by press and editor.
200x Border Culture, Jack McKivigan and Heather Kaufman, eds., Encyclopedia of American
Reform (New York: Facts on File, forthcoming); 2,000 words, draft accepted.
200x Grape Boycott, Jack McKivigan and Heather Kaufman, eds., Encyclopedia of American
Reform (New York: Facts on File, forthcoming); 1,000 words, draft accepted.
200x MEtis, Peter C. Mancall, ed., Encyclopedia of Native American History (New York:
Facts
on File); 1,500 words, initial draft accepted.
200x Art, Peter C. Mancall, ed., Encyclopedia of Native American History (New York:
Facts on
File); 3,300 words, initial draft accepted.
200x Louis Riel, Peter C. Mancall, ed., Encyclopedia of Native American History (New
York:
Facts on File); 1,000 words, initial draft accepted.
PUBLICATIONS IN PROCESS [ACCEPTED] + UNDER REVIEW
200x AztlAn, Anishinaabewaki, Ixachilan: Radical Hemispheric Indigeneity and the
Liberation of
Art through the Graphic Work of Carlos CortEz Koyokuikatl. Arturo J. Aldama, M. Bianet
Castellanos, and Lourdes GutiErrez NAjera, eds. Comparative Indigeneities of the AmEricas
(uder review at University of Arizona Press) ; chapter accepted by editors, under peer
review.
200x Michael and Me: Working -Class Solidarity in the Documentary Work of Michael
Moore.
M. Keith Booker, ed. Working Class Pop Culture (New York: Praeger); prospectus accepted
by editor.
200x Indians of All Tribes: Brown Pride, Red Power, and the Importance of Indigenous
Civil
Right Era Activism. Charles W. McKinney and Dwain C. Pruitt, eds. Looking Back:
Legacies and Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement (under review at University Press of
Mississippi); prospectus, initial and edited draft accepted by editors.
200x Movimiento, migraciOn y el medioeste: Reconfiguring AztlAn in Chicana/o Art.
Dionicio ValdEs and Jerry GarcIa, eds. Mexicanos in Greater AztlAn: From the Pacific
Northwest to the New South (under review at University of North Texas Press); chapter
accepted by editors.
200x The Five Elements of the Fourth World: Indigenous B-Boys, Grafiteros, and Native
Hip Hop
in the Americas. Jeff Berglund, Kimberi Lee, and Jan Johnson, eds. Indigenous Pop:
Contemporary Songwork of the Americas (under review at University of Arizona Press) ;
prospectus accepted by editors, chapter in development.
200x Halfbreed Theory: Maria Campbell s Storytelling as Indigenous Knowledge and une
Petite
Michin. Jolene Armstrong, ed. Maria Campbell: Essays on her Works (Toronto: Guernica
Editions, forthcoming): forthcoming.
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200x Stories as Mshkiki: The Medicinal Practice of Anishin aabeg Storytelling. Jill
Doerfler,
Niigonwedom James Sinclair, and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, eds. Centering
Anishinaabeg Studies: Understanding the World Through Stories (East Lansing: Michigan
State University Press); prospectus accepted by ed itors, chapter under peer review.
200x Prefigurative and Decolonizing Pedagogies: Teaching Art as Social Justice. Mary
Stone
Hanley, George Noblit, Thomas Barone, and Gilda Sheppard, eds. A Way Out of No Way:
The Arts as Social Justice in Education (forthcoming): prospectus accepted by editors,
revised
chapter submitted.
200x Don t Mourn, Organize: CE Setzer, Carlos CortEz Koyokuikatl and the Vernacular
Language
of Wobbly Printmaking. Under development, to be submitted to Labor: Studies in Working-
Class History of the Americas.
200x Art. Russell Lawson, ed. Encyclopedia of American Indian Issues Today (Westport,
CT:
Greenwood); 3,500 words. Entry submitted.
200x American Indian Activism. Russell Lawson, ed. Encyclopedia of American Indian
Issues
Today (Westport, CT: Greenwood); 3,500 words. Entry under development.
PUBLICATIONS NON-PEER REVIEWED
2010 Essays on Hatuey, CLR James, Lili uokalani, and Po pay. Shaun Slifer and Bec Young,
eds.
Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas (Bloomington, IN: Microcosm).
2009 Toward an Activist-Based, Indigenous Neo-Regionalism: Lansing and Three Fires
Territory. Brett Bloom, ed. Art Work: A National Conversation about Art, Labor and
Economy (Chicago: Temporary Service).
2009 Untitled essay on the intersection of printmaking and politics in my artwork. Josh
MacPhee
with Deborah Caplow. Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today (Oakland: PM
Press).
2007 Red (Pedal) Power: Natives, Bikes, and Anti-Colonial Art. Ed. Jenny Western. Do
Not
Park Bicycles!: Aboriginal Bike Culture (Brandon, MB: Art Gallery of Southwest Manitoba).
2007 El Grito del DiseNo : The Radical Visual Language in Chicana/o Newspapers, Eds.
Josh
MacPhee and Eric Rueland, Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority (San Francisco:
AK Press). In second edition.
2005 Carlos CortEz Koyokuikatl: Wobbly Heir to the TGP. Dylan Miner, ed. Yours for the
OBU:
Radical Wobbly Traditions in the Art of Carlos CortEz Koyokuikatl and Dylan A.T. Miner
(Albuquerque: Amoxtli Press): 2-11.
2001 Anglo en AztlAn: A xicanglo poet speaks (Kalamazoo, MI: Amoxtli Press, 2001).
2000 Printmakers from Taller MExicano de Grabado: Carlos Cortez, RenE Arceo, TomAs
Bringas. Barbara Brotherton, ed. Into the Center: Images for the New Millenium
(Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University, 2000).
2000 Guillermo GOmez-PeNa. Barbara Brotherton, ed. Into the Center: Images for the New
Millenium (Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University, 2000).
1998 Yo soy xicano: A xicano pocket manual (Kalamazoo, MI: Amoxtli Press, 1998).
PUBLICATIONS PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
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2009 Claiming the University as a Punk Space, with Estrella Torrez, Give Me Back #5
2003 UNM Should Offer Chicana/o Studies, Daily Lobo (13 February).
2002 MEtis Histories Across Turtle Island, MEtis Voyageur (November/December).
2002 Curanderismo and Drug Abuse, La Prensa (06 November).
2002 Diego Rivera in Detroit, Las Noticias Estudiantiles (Fall).
2002 Frida and Diego, the Detroit Connection, Mi Gente (October).
2002 ?QuE pasO al arte chicano?, La Prensa (18 September).
2002 Our struggle as mestizo and mEtis people continues, La Prensa (03 June).
2002 The Legacy of Rivera, La Prensa (12 May)
2002 History of American FUtbol, La Prensa (12 May).
GRANTS
2010 First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies Initiative publication grant,
US$2,000
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, funded through University of Arizona Press
2010 Contemporary Indigenous Arts Program, Artist Leadership Grant, US$12,900
National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
PRIMARY RESEARCH AREAS
Art and Activism; Indigenous Visual Culture; Chicana/o Art; MEtis Studies; Anti -Colonial
Theory.SECONDARY RESEARCH AREAS
Latin American Studies; Popular Printmaking; Sport Studies; Youth Subcultures; Critical
Theory;
Documentary Cinema; Comics Studies; Working -Class + Labor Studies; Oral History;
Sneakers.COURSES TAUGHT
20: Artist as Curator, Curator as Artist [Scheduled Fall 2011]
19: Culturas de la Tierra: Art, Activism, and Aboriginality in the Land of Enchantment
Seminar Away in New Mexico, USA [Scheduled Summer 2011]
18: Civic Engagement in the Native Community [Scheduled Spring 2011]
17: Seminar on Art and Activism [Scheduled Spring 2011]
16: Contemporary Indigenous Knowledge
15. Anishinaabeg Oral Histories, Graduate Fieldwork
14. Presence of the Past: Graphic Novels and Documentary Cinema
13. Printed Matters: Artistic Reproduction as Revolutiona ry Tool, studio
12. Sophomore Tutorial in Youth Subcultures: Punk and Hip -Hop
11. Art + Anti-Colonialism: Envisioning Third and Forth World Liberation, PhD seminar
10. Cultura de la Resistencia Culture of Resistance: Art + Social Justice in Oaxaca
Seminar Abroad in Oaxaca, MX, Summer 2008
09. Transcultural Relations: Indigeneity, Coloniality, Modernity
08. Presence of the Past: Qhiparu nayraru uNtas sartaNani
07. Horizontality + Creativity: Art as Social Justice, studio
06. Sport, Symbol, Society: The Cultural Study of Sports
05. Another (Art) World is Possible: Art and Social Justice in the AmEricas
04. Art of the Mexican Diaspora
03. World Art III
02. Western Art II
01. Introduction to Visual Culture
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2009-pres. Co-Coordinator, Nkwejong Oral History Project, Lansing, MI
2002-2003Film Festival Director, Sin Fronteras Film Festival, Albuquerque, NM
2001-2002Graduate Assistant, Latin American Institute, The University of New Mexico
2001-2002Collections Assistant, Center for Southwest Research
1999-2000Assistant Curator, Into the Center, Western Michigan University
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CONFERENCE PAPERS PEER REVIEWED
2010 Toward a Halfbreed Theory: Theorizing MEtis Visualities
Universities Art Association of Canada University of G uelph, Canada (October 2010)
2010 Visiting as Indigenous Activism: Language, Knowledge + History in Urban
Anishinaabeg Communities
United States Social Forum, Detroit, MI
2010 The Five Elements of the Fourth World: Indigenous B-Boys, Grafiteros and Hip Hop
across
Turtle Island Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
University of Arizona Tucson, AZ
2010 Disavowing Mestizaje: Jack Forbes and Indigenous Critiques of Miscegenation
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Seattle, WA
2010 Participatory Democracy and the Politics of Indigenous Communities
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Seattle, WA
2010 Nkwejong Urban Anishinaabeg Oral History Project; Chair
Native American Critical Issues Conference Michigan Indian Education Conference
Traverse City, MI
2009 Urban Anishnaabeg Oral History Project; Chair
Great Lakes History Conference Grand Valley State University Allendale, MI
2009 Popping the Spirit of Crazy Horse into Underground (Visual) Ciphers :
Theorizing Contemporary Indigenous Graffiti
Native American Art Studies Association University of Oklahoma Norman, OK
2009 Hasta la Victoria (Deportista) Siempre: Sports Posters in Revolutionary Cuba
Conference on the Visual Turn in Sport History Bristol University Bristol, UK
2009 The Need for a Network: A Continental Approach to Indigenous Documentary Theory
Indigenous Voice in Film, CIC-American Indian Studies Consortium Symposium
Kellogg Center, Michigan State University
2009 Carlos CortEz Koyokuikatl: Xican-Indio Intellectual (accepted, unable to present)
Class Matters Working-Class Studies Association Conference University of Pittsbu rgh
2009 Class, Nationhood and Indigeneity in Post -1968 Chicana/o Cultural Practice
Labor and Working Class History Association Conference Chicago, IL
2009 Chicana/o Art versus Hispanic Artifice: A Critical Analysis of Contemporary
Visual Culture through an Investigation in Arte Caliente! And the NHCCNM
National Assoc. for Chicana and Chicano Studies Rutgers Univ. New Brunswick, NJ
2009 MigraciOn y Movimiento : AztlAn in Chicana/o Art and Visual Culture
Seminar in Borderlands and Latina/o Studies Newberry Library Chicago, IL
2009 Class or Nation: The Refiguration of Chicana/o Cultural History
Great Lakes American Studies Association Conference University of Notre Dame
2008 Class v. Nation: Reframing Chicana/o Cultural History
North American Labor History Conference Wayne State University Detroit, MI
2008 Thinking Through Indigenous and Anti-Colonial Modernisms
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Outside the Frame: Kendall Colloquium on Art + Design Kendall College of Art + Design
2008 Teaching Active History Panel Discussion (accepted, unable to present)
Active History: History for the Future Glendon College, York University Toronto, ON
2008 Sneakers for Social Justice or Just for Us: The Athletic Shoe as Site of
Contestation
To Remember is to Resist: Forty Years of Sport and Social Change University of Toronto
2008 Art, Anti-Colonialism, and National Liberation: Chicana/o and MEtis Visual Culture
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Austin, TX
2008 Aboriginal Anti-Colonial Art: A Fanonian Approach
Native American & Indigenous Studies Conference Athens, GA
2007 MigraciOn y Movimiento : AztlAn in Chicana/o Art and Visual Culture
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Midwest Foco East Lansing
2006 The Continental Cultural Capacity of Chicana/o and MEtis Anti-Colonialism
Gabriel Dumont: MEtis History and Identity Conference Winnipeg, Canada
2005 Trabajadores MiChicanas/os: Class-consciousness and Chicana/o Art in Michigan
College Art Association Atlanta
2004 DiseNo Mestiza/o: Chicana/o Graphic Design as a Critical Engagement with Hybridity
Graduate Art History Symposium Albuquerque
2002 Toward una nueva historia xicana in the Works of Alma LOpez
Graduate Art History Symposium Albuquerque
2000 MiXicana/o: Chicana/o Nationalism in the Midwest
Conference on the AmEricas Grand Rapids
2000 !Soy Xicana/o! An Overview of Chicana/o Art History
Conference on the AmEricas Grand Rapids
1999 Diapers and Books: Surviving School and Parenting
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Midwest Foco Lansing
1999 Still Battling for Xicana/o Studies: A Midwest Story
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Midwest Foco Lansing
CONFERENCES SESSIONS CHAIRED
2011 Toward an Indigenous Artistic Sovereignty: Theorizing Contemporary Native Art;
Chair
College Art Association New York City, NY (February 2011)
INVITED LECTURES + PANELS NON-PEER REVIEWED
2010 Will Wilson and Dylan A.T. Miner, a Conversation
In Session Artist-Critic Lecture Series
Museum of Contemporary Native Art Santa Fe, NM
2010 A Bundle of Twigs (is Strong): Artist s Gallery Talk
Cleveland State University
2010 The Mexican Revolution: A Conversation on its Cultural and Historical Legacy
Panel: Dr. Howard Bossen, Dr. Eduardo GuIzar, Dr. Theresa MelEndez, Dr. Juan Javier
Pescador, Dr. Elvira SAnchez-Blake, Dr. Benjamin Smith, and Dr. Estrella Torrez
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Kresge Art Museum Michigan State University
2010 Indigenous Transportation in a Post-Automobile Era
National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC and Suitland, MD Lecture given twice, once at each NMAI location
2010 State of Chicana/o, Latina/o and Mexican Art, Commentator
Panel: Dr. Coco Fusco, Dr. Gisela Latorre, Dulce Aldama,
Latino and Latino American Space for Enrichment and Research
Ohio State University Columbus, OH
2010 My People Will Sleep for 100 Years: Art, Activism and Visual Sovereignty
CIC-AISC Graduate Student Conference Keynote Lecture
(Committee on Institutional Cooperation American Indian Studies Consortium)
Michigan State University East Lansing, MI
2010 Indigenous Visualities: Contemporary Practives of Native Women Artists
Prof. Heather Howard Anthro 432, American Indian Women Michigan State University
2010 Michif Cultural History, an Introduction
Prof. Estrella Torrez Res. College in Arts & Humanities Michigan State University
2010 Confronting the Capitalist Crisis: Activist, Artist. Indigenous, Intellectual
Prof. Laura Smith Department of Art & Art History Michigan State University
2010 The Five Elements of the Fourth World: Hip Hop, Graffiti, and Contemporary
Indigenous Art
Concordia University Montreal, QB, Canada
2010 Revolution, Art and the Representation of Sport in Cuban Posters (unable to
present)
The Visual in Sport Follow-Up Conference Tottenham Hotspurs Football Club
London, UK
2009 Confronting the Capitalist Crisis: Artist, Activist. Indigenous, Intellectual
Joseph Gross Gallery University of Arizona Tucson, AZ
2009 Joe Hill Ain t Dead! : Wobbly Visual Culture and Contemporary Radical Graphics
Our Daily Work/Our Daily Bread Lecture Series
Michigan State Museum East Lansing, MI
2009 Panelist, Art and Activism Conference on Democracy + Direct Action
Michigan State University and East Lansing High School East Lansing, MI
2009 Indigenous Visuality, Revolutionary Love, and Me
American Indian Rhetorics with Dr. Malea Powell
American Indian Studies Consortium Graduate Spring Seminar
CIC-American Indian Studies Consortium Michigan State University East Lansing, MI
2009 Moderator for The Latin American Struggle Through Art
Latin American & Caribbean Studies Undergraduate Research Conference
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Michigan State East Lansing, MI
2009 Movimiento, Migration and Metonym: AztlAn in Chicana/o Art and Visual Culture
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL (April 2009)
2009 Arte Radical en MExico
Talk and Panel Discussion with John Womack (Harvard), Ben Smith (MSU) and
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photographers Antonio Turok (Mexico City), Edith SAnchez Morales (Oaxaca, MX)
LookOut! Gallery, Michigan State University
2008 Otepemisiwak, the People Without Bosses
[private talk for delegation of religious and educational leaders from Mali]
Nokomis Native American Center, Okemos, MI
2008 Indigenous Video, a Continental Approach
Global Script of Indigenous Identities Michigan Sta te University
2008 Rojo Amanecer and the Repression of Popular Insurrections in Mexico
Our Stories, Our Journeys Exhibition [Smithsonian Institution] Michigan State
University
2008 Indigenous Love as Revolutionary Love
Minobimaadizawin Lecture Series Nokomis Native American Center, Okemos, MI
2008 La resistencia sigue: El arte contemporAneo indIgena nortemaericano
CafE Brujula, Oaxaca, MX
2008 Aboriginality, Art & Anti-Colonialism: Writing About Contemporary Native Art
Returning the Gift Conference
Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers & Storytellers Michigan State University
2007 Art & Community in the New Millennium
Deliberately Building and Sustaining an Inclusive Community
Best Practices Multi-Cultural Teaching Conference Michigan State University
2007 Against Populism: Rethinking the Relationship Between Art and Commodity
Department of Art & Art History Michigan State University
2007 Migration, Movimiento, and Metonym: AztlAn in Contem porary Chicana/o Art
American Studies University of Iowa
2006 AztlAn as Site of Resistance in Chicana/o Art + Culture
Friends of Art Lecture Jonson Gallery, The University of New Mexico
2006 Against Populism: Creating Space for Radical Art in Contemporary Culture
Pocket Change: Contemporary Art and Money Providence
2004 Chicana/o Art as Political Intervention
The University of New Mexico
2004 Introduction to Color Theory
Our Montessori School
2004 Lucha Libre in as Art
The University of New Mexico
2004 Women in New Mexican Politics: The Dorothy Cline Papers
Zimmerman Library,
The University of New Mexico2004 Como hacer una estampa polItica
Longfellow Dual-Language Academy
2003 CityScape Mural and Sense of Place for Raza along la otra frontera
Chicano Studies,
The University of New Mexico
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2003The Unionization of Detroit MexicansThe University of New Mexico
2002 Diego Rivera s Role in the Repatriation of Mexicans
The University of New Mexico
2002 Diego Rivera and la colonia mexicana in Detroit
Bagley Housing Association Detroit, MI
CURATORIAL + ORGANIZATIONAL
201x Title TBD (Exhibition on Indigenous Hip Hop Video), curator
Museum of Contemporary Native Art
Institute of American Indian Art Santa Fe, NM
2010Dignidad Rebelde: In the Spirit of the Living and the Dead
In collaboration with Day of the Dead Initiative
MSU Musuem Michigan State University East Lansing, MI
2010Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration
A Conversation with Jimmy Manning and Tim Knox
RCAH Theater Michigan State University East Lansing, MI
2010 Collaboration and Celebration: The Graphic Work of Justseeds
Lookout! Gallery Michigan State University East Lansing, MI
2009Conference on Democracy + Direct Action, co-organizer
Michigan State University and East Lansing High School East Lansing, MI
2009 In the Name of the Bloodshed : Art, Revolution, and Indigenous Resistance in
Mexico, co-curator
Lookout! Gallery Michigan State University East Lansing, MI
2008 Global Script of Indigenous Languages Conference, film curator
Michigan State University East Lansing, MI
2008 Latino Journey Exhibition, film curator
MSU Musuem Michigan State University East Lansing, MI
VISITING ARTISTS AND RESIDENCIES FACILITATED
2010Jimmy Manning (Kinngait [Cape Dorset], Nunavut, Canada)
Kananginak Pootoogook (Kinngait [Cape Dorset], Nunavut, Canada); una ble to travel to US
Dignidad Rebelde, collaboration between Melanie Cervantes and JesUs Barraza (Oakland, CA,
USA
)
2009 Edgar Heap of Birds (Oklahoma City, OK, USA)
Favianna RodrIguez (Oakland, CA, USA)
Antonio Turok (Mexico City and Oaxaca, Mexi co)
Edith Morales SAnchez (Oaxaca, Mexico)
Lapiztola Collective (Oaxaca, Mexico); unable to travel to US
Zzierra Rrezzia (QuerEtaro, Mexico); unable to travel to US
2008 Edgar Heap of Birds (Oklahoma City, OK, USA)
Favianna RodrIguez (Oakland, CA, USA)
INVITED RETREATS & WORKSHOPS
2010Just Seeds Artists Cooperative Retreat Chicago, IL
2009Vision Project Native Art History Workshop
Institute for American Indian Arts Santa Fe, NM
2009What We Want! Radical Artists Retreat Ch icago, IL
2008Just Seeds Artists Cooperative Retreat Milwaukee, WI
2008 CIC-American Indian Studies Consortium Faculty Retreat Kalamazoo, MI
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
* JURIED, CURATED OR PEER-REVIEWED SELECTION P ROCESS
2011 Provisional *
Urban Shaman Gallery, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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(01 April 14 May 2011)
2011 Title TBA *
Art Gallery at Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO
(Fall 2011)
2010 A Bundle of Twigs (is Strong) *
University Art Gallery, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, O H
(03 September 09 October 2010)
2010 Big Enough to Win, Big Enough to Lose *
Alumni and Faculty Hall, Center Galleries, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
(September 2010)
2010 The Profit of our Sweat
Art Department + Chicano Education, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
(May 2010)
2010 Learning to Labor, Remembering to Resist *
University Art Gallery, Saginaw Valley State University, Saginaw, MI
(February-March 2010)
2010 Within the Shell of the Old *
ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
(January-February 2010)
2008 Otepemisiwak, The People Without Bosses
Nokomis Native American Center, Okemos, MI
(September 01 November 30, 2008)
2006 Anartista: Working-class Vision of Dylan Miner,
Out Ch yonda Performance Space, Albuquerque, NM
2 3 4 PERSON EXHIBITIONS
* JURIED, CURATED OR PEER-REVIEWED SELECTION P ROCESS
2011 EA$T/WE$T: A Global Look at Capitalism *
with Priscilla Briggs, Jennifer Locke, and Mary Ann Michna
New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Southern Indiana, IN
2011 Graphic Protest, with Alynn Guerra *
University Art Gallery, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
(11 January 12 February 2011)
2005- Yours for the OBU, with Carlos CortEz Koyokuikatl, Traveling to *
2007 20+ cities in US, Canada, Europe, Australia [catalogue]
GROUP EXHIBITIONS [JURIED OR CURATED*]
2010 ResVu, Scene MetroSpace, East Lansing, MI
Signs of the Times, TIa Chucha s Centro Cultural, Sylmar, CA
Celebrate Peoples History, Eastside Gallery, Linwood Community Arts Centre,
Christchurch, NZ
Bring Down the Walls!, Philagrafika 201, The A Space and Studio 34, Philadelphia, PA *
Art Work: A National Conversation About Art, Labor, and Economics *
Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
UW Commons Gallery, University of Hawai i, Manoa, Hawai i
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
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Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
Porch Gallery, Iowa City, IA
Many other unidentified alternative spaces
ExposiciOn GrAfica Justseeds, ZAM (Zona AutonOma Makhnovtchina), Mexico City, Mexico
2009 Art Work: A National Conversation About Art, Labor, and Economics, Spaces Gallery,
Cleveland, OH *
JustSeeds: Paper Politics for a New Decade, Hillyer Art Space, Washinton DC
Yo! What Happened to Peace?, House of Love and Dissent, Rome, Italy
[will subsequently be exhibited in an Italian museum in 2010]
Celebrate? Celebrate!, Mess Hall, Chicago, IL
Charting Our Course: A Show about Education, Literacy and Books, Reading Frenzy,
Portland, OR
Opposable Thumb: New Work from Justseeds about the Human Hand, Sea Change Gallery,
Portland, OR
th
28 Biennial of Graphics Arts, Ljublana, Slovenia [Justseeds awarded Grand Prix] *
Paper Politics Richmond, Ghostprint Gallery, Richmond, VA *
Food Security, Cass CafE, in conjunction with Allied Media Conference, Detroit, MI
Agit-Prop Overload, LeCagibi, Montreal, QB
Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Cultures, Eight Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues,
United Nations, New York, NY *
Which Side are You On?, Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin -Milwaukee *
Confronting the Capitalist Crisis, Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona *
Just Seeds Exhibition, Sewanee University of the South, Sewanee, TN *
2008 Portland Grassroots Media Camp, Liberty Hall, Portland, OR
Paper Politics Syracuse, Redhouse Arts Center, Syracuse, NY *
Paper Politics Cortland, Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, NY *
Speak Out: Art, Design, Politics, 516 Gallery, Albuquerque, NM *
I Am, Therefore I Think II, Goodfoot Gallery, Portland, OR
Reproduce and Revolt, Crewest Gallery, Los Angeles, CA *
Sustainable Visions for a Living Planet, AS220, Providence, RI *
Graphic Work: Imagining Today s Labor Movement, Labor Fest 2008, SEIU 1021 Hall,
San Francisco, CA *
Just Seeds Exhibition, Tuscan CafE, Warwick, NY
Declaration of Immigration, National Museum of Mexic an Art, Chicago, IL *
Just Seeds Print Show, Kismet Gallery, Troy, NY
Paper Politics, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX *
Sustainable, Visions for a Living Planet, AS220 Gallery, Providence, RI *
Repressed III, Gallery 5 (in collaboration with 2008 Southern Graphics
Council Conference and T.O.W.A.R.), Richmond, VA *
Anti, Anti, Anti, Hall of Flowers, Goldern Gate Park, San Francisco, CA *
2007 Modern Day Warriors: Empowering the Young Voices of Native America, Native American
Rights Fund, Boulder, CO [catalogue, 2008] *
Change is Gonna Come, Reading Frenzy, Portland OR *
DIa de los Muertos, Oldtown Galleries, Lansing, MI *
North of Nowhere, Multidisciplinary Festival of Independent Media & Underground Art,
Edmonton, AB, Canada
I Am, Therefore I Think, The Goodfoot, Portland, OR *
Paper Politics, Whitewater, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater, WI *
Paper Politics, Milwaukee, WI *
Paper Politics, Art and Anarchy Montreal 2007, Esplanade Loft Project, Montreal, QB *
Graphic Work: Imagining Today s Labor Movement, Martin Luther King Jr. Labor Center,
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Times Square, New York City, NY *
Do Not Park Bicycles!: Aboriginal Cycling Culture, Art Gallery of Southwest Manitoba,
Brandon, MB [catalogue] *
Regeneration, Hall of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA *
New York Anarchist Book Fair, Judson Memorial Church, New York City, NY *
2006 !Rini PresEnte!, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA *
Columbucide, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM *
Day of the Dead, Westside Community Center, Albuquerque, NM
DIa de los Muertos, South Broadway Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM *
Frybread and Roses: Art of Native American Labor, CounterPulse Gallery,
San Francisco, CA *
Frybread and Roses: Art of Native American Labor, Cherokee Heritage Center,
Park Hill, OK *
Frybread and Roses: Art of Native American Labor, Art Cove Gallery,
Alleghan, MI *
La Raza Unida May Day 2006, Lobo Theatre, Albuquerque, NM
Paper Politics Brooklyn, 5+5 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY *
Paper Politics Portland, Portland State University, Portland, OR *
2005 100 Years of the IWW, Traveling to 20+ cities in North America, Europe, Australia
[2005-2008: includes Brown University, Yale University, La PeNa Cultural Center, et al]
Paper Politics (West): An Exhibition of Socially and Politically Engaged Printmaking,
Phinney Arts Center, Seattle, WA [catalogue] *
IWW Centenial, University of Illinoi s-Chicago, Chicago, IL
Doing it Wob Style, Ace Art Inc., Winnipeg, MB
Printed Matters, Urban Folk Arts, Albany, NY *
DIa de los Muertos, Westside Community Center, Albuquerque, NM
DIa de los Muertos, South Broadway Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM *
Miccailhuitl, Barelas Community Center, Albuquerque, NM
Paper Politics Brooklyn, 5+5 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY *
2004 Allied Media Conference, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Art of Resistance, Seattle, WA *
Paper Politics, Chicago, IL *
2003 Allied Media Conference, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
DIa de los Muertos, Westside Community Center, Albuquerque, NM *
Day of the Dead, Barelas Community Center, Albuquerque, NM
2002 DIa de los Muertos, Westside Community Center, Albuquerque, NM *
GalerIa de Colores, Centro de la Raza, Albuquerque, NM *
Latin American Film Festival, Latin American Institute, Albuquerque, NM *
RESIDENCIES
2011 Emerging Indigenous Voices Artist Residency Program
Hui No`eau Visual Arts Center, Maui, Hawai I (Invited, pending funding)
BIBLIOGRAPHY TEXTS THAT INCLUDE MY ARTWORK
2010 Josh MacPhee, ed., Celebrate People s History: The Poster Book of Resistance and
Revolution, New York: Feminist Press (at City University of New York).
2010 2011 Service Employees International Union Calendar (New York: SEIU).
2010 Cover art for Michigan Indian Day. An annual conference for Indigenous service
providers.
2010 Migration and Integration, United Nation Alliance of Civil izations. One of ten
international
artists whose artworks speak to issues of migration and integration. Accessable at
http://www.unaoc.org/communities/migrationintegration/resources/gallery/
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2010 Darren PrEfontaine, ed. Gabriel Dumont: Li Chef Michif in Images and Words
(Saskatoon,
SK: Gabriel Dumont Institiute); four illustrations of Gabriel Dumont.
2010 Illustrations of Hatuey, CLR James, Lili uokalani, and Po pay. Shaun Slifer and Bec
Young,
eds. Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas (Bloomington, IN: Microcosm).
2010 Harvey Pekar, Paul Buhle, and Colelctif BrochE . Working : une adaptation graphique
(Paris:
Editions Amsterdam).
2009 Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle, eds. Studs Terkel Working: A Graphic Adaptation (New
York:
New Press, forthcoming); Roberto AcuNa, farmworker.
Top 5 Graphic Novels of 2009, Times of London
Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2009, Village Voice
Top Books of 2009, Mother Jones
2008 2009 Service Employees International Union Calendar (New York: SEIU ).
2008 Favianna Rodriguez and Josh MacPhee, eds. Reproduce and Revolt!: Radical Images for
the
Twenty-First Century (Brooklyn: Soft Skull); bilingual Spanish-English text.
2008 Jared Davidson, ed. Rivet 3 (Special Issue, Why Capitalism ) Canterbury,
Aeoteroa/New
Zealand.
2005 Yours for the OBU: Radical Wobbly Traditions in the Art of Carlos CortEz Koyokuikatl
and
Dylan A.T. Miner, Albuquerque: Amoxtli Press.
2005 Paper Politics (West): An Exhibition of Socially and Politically Engaged
Printmaking, Josh
MacPhee, Seattle: Seattle Print Arts.
2005 The Graphic History of the Wobblies, eds. Nicole Schulman and Paul Buhle, London:
Verso.
[includes book jacket artwork and five interior prints]
BIBLIOGRAPHY TEXTS ABOUT MY ARTWORK
200x Modern Day Warriors: Empowering the Young Voices of Native America, Native American
Rights Fund Fund (Fulcrum: Golden, CO, forthcoming).
2010 Vince Carducci, The Art of Dead Labor, Motown Review of Art (11 November 2010)
http://motownreviewofart.blogspot.com/2010/11/art -of-dead-labor.html
2010 Eric Vernay, Working: una adaptation graphique, Fluctuant.com (20 October 2010)
http://livres.fluctuat.net/studs -terkel/livres/working-une-adaptation-graphique/11254-
chronique-Working-Heroes.html
2010 Octavio Ortega, Working, la adaptaciOn grAfica de la obra de Studs Terkel,
ReinosLibres.com
http://www.reinoslibres.com/working -la-adaptacion-grafica-de-la-obra-de-studs-
terkel.html
2010 Doretha Wells, Dylan Miner s Exhibit A Bundle of Twigs Showcases Latino and
American Indian Baseball, Cleveland Stater (16 September 2010)
http://www.csuohio.edu/class/com/clevelandstater/Copy/120211.html
2010 Azaria Podplesky, Artist Shares His Talent during Cinco de Mayo, The Easterner (12
May 2010)
http://www.easterneronline.com/eagle -life/ewu-promotes-college-on-cinco-de-mayo-
1.1432837
2010 Arrested Motion, Interview with Justseeds (accessed 01 June 2010)
http://arrestedmotion.com/2010/05/interview -justseeds-including-swoon-chris-stain/
2010 Elise Axel, EWU Promotes College on Cinco de Mayo, The Easterner (28 April 2010)
http://www.easterneronline.com/eagle -life/ewu-promotes-college-on-cinco-de-mayo-
1.1432837
2010 Sue White, Dylan Miner s Exhibit at Saginaw Valley State University Tells Stories
of those
Who Struggle, Saginaw News (19 February 2010), http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/
saginaw/index.ssf/2010/02/dylan_miners_exhibit_at_sagina.html (accessed 20 February 2010)
2009 Marc Sobel, Marc Sobel Reviews Working: A Graphic Adaptaton, The Comics Journal
(December 24), http://www.tcj.com/?p=1801 (accessed December 2009)
2009 Craig Taylor, Hard Graft, a Review of Studs Terkel s Working: A Graphic
Adaptaton, GuardianUK (July 25), http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/25/studs-
terkel-working-graphic-adaptation (accessed July 2009)
2009 Gavin O Toole, The Walking Wounded, a Review of Studs Terkel s Working: A Graphic
Adaptaton, Latin American Review of Books, http://www.latamrob.com/?p=894
(accessed July 2009)
2009 Review of Studs Terkel s Working: A Graphic Adaptation, AC Club 15 May 2009,
http://origin.avclub.com/articles/may -15-2009,28068/2/?utm_source=pager
2009 Review of Studs Terkel s Working: A Graphic Ad aptation, Chicago Sun-Times (
online thread is no longer active)
2009 Win Wiacek, Review of Studs Terkel s Working: A Graphic Adaptation, Now Read This!
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02 July 2009 http://www.comicsreview.co.uk/nowreadthis/
2009 Sarah Boslaugh, Review of Studs Terkel s Working: A Graphic Adaptation, Pop Matters
24 June 2009
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/95075 -studs-terkels-working-a-graphic-adaptation/
2009 Apoyo IMAC creadores del diseNo. Contacto Hoy (10 February), S3.
2009 Mezcla de color, lIneas y figuras. El Siglo de Durango (08 February), E1.
2008 Social Justice s Greatest Hits: Printmaker Creates Individualized Art for the
Masses, Eric
Gallippo, CityPulse (01-07 October 2008), 18.
2007 Brendan Bouffard. Day of the Dead Showcases Hispanic Culture in Old Town.
Lansing State Journal (03 November), B1-B2.
2007 Joanne F. Villeneuve. AGSM Exhibit Takes a Look at Bike Culture. Brandon Sun
(02 May).
2007 Do Not Park Bicycles! Momentum 28 (2007), 18.
2007 Do Not Park Bicycles!: Aboriginal Bike Culture . Ed. Jenny Western (Brandon, MB: Art
Gallery of Southwest Manitoba, 2007).
2006 Frybread and Roses journeys through Native American art, labor, Charlotte Weick,
Penasee Globe (23 October), 6-7.
2006 Art, Work, Hiya Swanhuyser, SFWeekly (05
STUDENT RESEARCH ON MY ART
2009 Students from Art Institute of Seattle
2008 Students from Bard College, Michigan State University
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
University-level University Committee on Liberal Learning, 2009 -present
University Committee on Diversity Abroad, 2010 -present
College-level Faculty Advisory Committee, 2010-present
Advising Committee, 2007-2009
Artist-in-Residence Coordinating Committee, 2007-2008
African Art History Search Committee, 2007 -2008
Program-level Chicano/Latino Studies Graduate Committee, 2008-2009
American Indian Studies Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Committee, 2008, 2009
Chicano/Latino Studies Faculty Committee, 2007-2009
American Indian Studies Faculty Committee, 2007 -present
Misc. Institutional Film Selection, Latino Journey Exhibition, MSU Library, 2008
Film Selection, Global Script of Indigenous Languages, College of Arts and
Letters, 2008
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
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Board of Directors, Michigan Indian Education Council, 2010-present
Advisory Committee, Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Gallery, Winnipeg, MB, Canada,
2007-2009, 2010-present
Local Com