Traditional Teachings: Dylan Miner
First Peoples House of Learning Elder in Residence
Event Details
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Tuesday, November 1, 2016
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Building: Gzowski College First Peoples House of Learning
Room: The Gathering Space
Cost: Free
All are invited to the Traditional Teachings workshop by Elder in Residence Dylan Miner.
Dylan AT Miner is a Wiisaakodewinini (Métis) artist, activist, and scholar. He is currently director of American Indian Studies and associate professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University. Dylan is also adjunct curator of Indigenous art at the MSU Museum and a founding member of the Justseeds artists collective. He holds a PhD from The University of New Mexico and has published more than 50 journal articles, book chapters, critical essays, and encyclopedia entries.
In 2010, he was awarded an Artist Leadership Fellowship through the National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian Institution). Dylan has been featured in more than 20 solo exhibitions and has been artist-in-residence or visiting artist at institutions such as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, École supérieure des beaux-arts in Nantes, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Rabbit Island, Santa Fe Art Institute, and numerous universities, art schools, and low-residency MFA programs.
His book Creating Aztlán: Chicano Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Lowriding Across Turtle Island was published in 2014 by the University of Arizona Press. He is currently completing a book on Indigenous Aesthetics: Art, Activism, Autonomy (Bloomsbury, expected 2016) and writing his first book of poetry, Ikidowinan Ninandagikendaanan (words I must learn).
Contact Info
Shari Beaver sharibeaver@trentu.ca