Director University

Mona M. Smith

Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota (#347-********)

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Minneapolis, MN 55406-3816

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Selected Awards

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20 2006, Community Artist for 2007, National Museum of American Indian, Smithsonian

20 2005, Minnesota State Arts Board Community Cultural Partnership Grant, City Indians

20 2005, Finalist, Bush Artist Fellowship

20 2003, Fellowship for the Institute for Community Cultural Development, Minneapolis

20 2001, First Place Media Award, Nat l Council on Family Relations, Getting to the Heart of It

2001, Montreal First Nations International Film Festival, Wintercount

2000, Honorable Mention Media Award, Nat l Council on Family Relations

1999, Producer s Award (Mother Earth, Father Sky Award), Two Rivers Native Film and Video

Festival, Bertha Iron Boy Story

1999, Silver Cindy Award, Bronze Telly Award, New York Film Festival, Bertha Iron Boy Story

Sample Installations, Exhibitions and Broadcast

Mill City Museum, Mpls., Presence, in progress, multimedia/live installation-event, 06/15/2010

Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN, Mona Smith-Multimedia Retrospective, March, 2010

Form+Content Gallery, Mpls., MN, Mnisota Dakota Home - 11/27/2008-01/05/2009

Ancient Trader s Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, City Indians installation 11/10/2006-1/27/2007

Minnesota History Center, Cloudy Waters: Dakota Reflections on the River - 2004-2005

Brooklyn Museum of Art, American Indian Community House, International AIDS Conference,

Pacifica Archives, John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Native Film and Video Collection,

Walker Art Center, Regional PBS broadcasts, nat l Cable broadcasts of Her Giveaway, That

Which is Between and Bertha Iron Boy Story

Positions Held

1996-present

Producer/Director/Media Artist and Owner, providing media, art, and creative services

Allies: media/art (Allies, LLC) - http://www.alliesmediaart.com

1989-1995

Program Coordinator

National Indian AIDS Media Consortium

1983-1995

Independent scriptwriter/producer/director/talent

Approximately 40 audio-video programs; documentary, education and training produced.

1983

Personnel Director

Little Six Enterprises

Shakopee Mdewakanton Dakota Community

1979-1983

Instructor

Women s Studies, Health Science, and Minority Studies Departments

Mankato State University, Mankato, MN

References

Matthew Brandt, Minnesota Humanities Center, 987 Ivy St., St. Paul, MN 55106

Daniel Spock, Minnesota History Center, 345 West Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul, MN 55102

Laura Waterman Wittstock, 913 19th Avenue Southeast, Mpls., MN 55409

Mona M. Smith resume, p.2

Selected Media Projects

Bdote Memory Map Website Phase Two - 2010

Minnesota Humanities Center Partnership phase two available Spring 2010

Bdotememorymap.org

Role: concept, producer of site, and producer/director of video/audio for use in website.

Between Fences video piece supplement - 2009

Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit for

Minnesota Humanities Center

Role: producer/director

Jeffers Petroglyphs podcasts - 2009

Minnesota History Center four enhanced podcasts for web and tour use

Role: producer/director and editor

Mnisota Dakota Home 2008

Two-person photography and multimedia installation

Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

Role: media artist

Bdote Video/Audio Podcast - 2008

Telling River Stories

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Available for viewing at http://www.riverstories.umn.edu (Explore the river - confluence story)

Role: producer/director/editor

How to Grow Tobacco - 2008

8 min. video piece on traditional tobacco growth

Indigenous People s Task Force, Minneapolis, MN

Role: producer/director

Beishgo Aseehma 2008

20-minute video on traditional Native teachings about ceremonial tobacco

Indigenous People s Task Force, Minneapolis, MN

Available for viewing at http://www.indigenouspeoplestf.org

Role: producer/director

City Indians 2006- 2007

One-person multimedia installation

Ancient Trader s Gallery

Role: media artist

Cloudy Waters: Dakota Reflections on the River 2005-2006

Experimental Gallery Exhibit/Installation

Minnesota History Center, St. Paul, MN

Role: media artist

More information on projects available at http://www.alliesmediaart.com

Mona M. Smith resume, p.3

Selected Presentations

Mona Smith a Multimedia Retrospective

Augsburg College, Minneapolis MN

March, 2010

Encounter? Memory, Art, Place

Theatre Arts 8112, Sonja Kuftinec

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

January, 2009

Artist Panel Sovereignty; A Minnesota Sesquicentennial Symposium

University of Minnesota, Ancient Traders Gallery, Form+Content Gallery

Nolte Hall, University of Minnesota

December, 2008

Immersive Media and Teaching/Learning about Dakota People, Dakota Place

Center for Global Environmental Education - Summer Seminar for Teachers, Hamline University

Fort Snelling State Park, Mpls., MN

Summer, 2008

Allies: media/art - Place Specific Media Art

Summer Studio: Space & Place Collaborative,

University of Minnesota with Land2,

University of Leeds, United Kingdom (www.land2.uwe.ac.uk)

Summer, 2007

Bdote, Where You Live - Seniors Speakers Series

Nokomis Lutheran Church

Spring, 2008

Dakota Speak of Rivers

U of M public lecture series

Institute for Advanced Study - College of Design, Institute for the Environment, University of

Minnesota

October, 2007

Primary Scholar for two two-day teacher institutes, Urban Natives at Minnesota Humanities

Center, St. Paul, MN

November, 2007

Is Empty Ever Truly Empty?

Architectures of Emptiness,

University of Minnesota Symposium,

Spring, 2008

http://www.ias.umn.edu/EmptyArchitecture.php

Dakota, Media and Place

Final Dakota Scholars Conference,

Southwest Minnesota State University, Marshall, MN

Spring, 2008

Mona M. Smith resume, p.4

From Artistic and Activist Memory-Work: Approaching Place-based Practice,

by Karen Till, PhD, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota,

Memory Studies 1(1) (2008)

. Not only can scholars learn from such memorials for the ways they question existing

institutional structures of memory, they can also begin to consider the ways these projects explore

the creative potential of time and space, memory and forgetting. .In quite distinct ways,

American Dakota multi-media artist and educator Mona Smith (2007) questions Western practices

of memory by acknowledging the presence of Dakota peoples in public space. Through temporary

multi-media installations, such as Cloudy Waters and City Indians, and in educational

projects, including memory maps, community events, and semi-permanent sound environments,

visitors encounter multi-sensual historical narratives, Dakota stories, environmental memories,

and landscape experiences. As Smith explains, Dakota remember through land, experience

(including ceremony), and story. Dakota people know that everything passes away, so buildings

and signage and memorials are not the traditional ways to honor, to mourn, to remember.

Smith s work calls attention to interior and exterior movements of memory through landscape,

story and ritual. As I describe below, this is another reason why memory studies scholars should

pay attention to artistic and activist practice: these projects explore the understudied relationships

between embodied and shared memory.

More selected publications that discuss Smith work

"Consideration of a Native American Aesthetic: Mona Smith and Activist Video Voice. Michigan

Academician. 30.4 (August 1998): 371-386.

"Consideration of a Native American Aesthetic: Mona Smith, Community Leadership and the Activist Video

Voice," A Leadership Journal: Women in Leadership - Sharing the Vision. 3.1 (Fall 1998): 67-76.

"Native Women and Film: Activist Video and Mona Smith." Columbia College Women's Studies Conference on

Native Women's Voices." Columbia, SC, October 1997.

Implications of A Feminist Narratology: Temporality, Focalization and Voice in the Films of Julie Dash, Mona

Smith and Trinh Minh-ha." University Film and Video Association Conference, Orange, CA, August 1996.

Wiping the War Paint off the Lens: Native American Film and Video, Beverly R. Singer

Indigenous Aesthetics; Native Art, Media and Identity, Steven Leuthold

Women in Culture, Peach

Killing Us Quietly; Native Americans and HIV/AIDS, Irene S. Vernon

Gender on Campus: Issues for College Women, Marcie Hefernan Stoff, Jody Lynn Yetger, Sharon Gmelech

AIDS TV. Alexandra Juliasz

Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and Subjectivity. Amina Mama

Women Film Directors: an International Bio-Critical Dictionary. Gwendolyn Audrey Forster

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