Melanie A Yazzie was born on 1966 and is a Navajo sculptor, painter, printmaker, and professor.
12 Facts About Melanie Yazzie
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Melanie Yazzie teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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Melanie A Yazzie was born in 1966 in Ganado, Arizona, United States.
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Melanie Yazzie earned a BA in studio art with a minor in Spanish from Arizona State University in 1990 and an MFA in printmaking from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1993.
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Melanie Yazzie's art is accessible to the public on many levels, and the main focus is on connecting with people and educating them about the contemporary status of one Native American woman, and hoping that people can learn from her experience.
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Melanie Yazzie is known for her multilayered monotypes that focus on storytelling and reflect her dreamtime friends and companions.
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Melanie Yazzie is a professor and the head of printmaking at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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Melanie Yazzie teaches printmaking courses and travels extensively to Indigenous communities within the United States and abroad.
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Melanie Yazzie has led more than 100 international print exchanges over a 20-year period.
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In February 2014, Melanie Yazzie opened the largest retrospective of her work in 20 years at the University of New Mexico Art Museum titled Geographies of Memory curated by Lisa Tamiris Becker, director of the UNM Art Museum.
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Melanie Yazzie's solo show Histories Beyond Homeland opened on October 8,2015, at the University of Denver Museum of Anthropology.
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Melanie Yazzie: Peace Walking, Denver Botanic Gardens January through May 2023.