Nancy Marie Mithlo

14/04/2022 44 min Temporada 3 Episodio 10
Nancy Marie Mithlo

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Nancy Marie Mithlo (Chiricahua Apache) is a professor of Gender Studies and core faculty withthe American Indian Studies Interdepartmental program at the University of California, LosAngeles. Mithlo’s curatorial work has resulted in nine exhibits at the Venice Biennale. A life-long educator, Mithlo has taught at the University of New Mexico, the Institute of AmericanIndian Arts, the Santa Fe Community College, Smith College, California Institute of the Arts,Occidental College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Her 2020 book Knowing NativeArts was published by the University of Nebraska Press.Mithlo’s research addresses the pressing need for accurate and sensitive information for andabout American Indian communities using institutional critique, curatorial strategies and artsanalysis. She is concerned with the unequal application of resources in the arts and culture fieldand the outmoded theoretical frames of analysis that tend to describe, but fail to analyze thewealth of knowledge inherent in Native arts production and circulation.Order her book here:https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496202123/Website:https://nancymariemithlo.com/