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2021 UC DAVIS
ARTS & HUMANITIES 
GRADUATE EXHIBITION

June 10th - September 6th

Check out my virtual exhibit at the Manetti Shrem Museum and view my photo collection, “A Good Day to Garden,” which is part of the photography component of We Are Not Your Savages. It features Christina Thomas (Northern Paiute/Western Shoshone/Hopi) and her son, Jace.

OF COMMUNITY AND CULTURE: A SNAPSHOT OF TRIBAL COLLEGE ALUMNI

August 23, 2021

Check out my interview with the Tribal College Journal (Volume 33, No. 1 - Fall 2021) where I discuss my journey from a Tribal College/University (TCU) graduate to a PhD student and college instructor and how being a TCU graduate has uniquely qualified me for a career in higher education.

"I AM WHO I SAY I AM: RECLAIMING NATIVE AMERICAN IDENTITY"

September 28th, 2021

"I Am Who I Say I Am: Reclaiming Native American Identity through Visual Sovereignty." Check out my piece for Imagining America in which I talk about my publicly engaged scholarship and art and the importance of Native American self-representation in media and popular culture.

NATIVE AMERICAN MEDIA ALLIANCE - UNSCRIPTED WORKSHOP

October 1st, 2021

I am one of eight participants who have been selected for the inaugural Unscripted Workshop hosted by Native American Media Alliance. Sponsored by Comcast NBCUniversal, A+E, Yahoo!, CNN, Turner Sports, and the Cherokee Nation Film Office.

WE ARE NOT YOUR SAVAGES

April 13-16, 2022

Join me for my presentation, We Are Not Your Savages: Deconstructing the Myth of the American Frontier through Native American Visual Sovereignty, at the 2022 Popular Cultural Association’s Annual Conference. I will be presenting in the Mythology in Contemporary Culture section #PCAACA22

IMAGINING OURSELVES

February 3, 2022

KALICO Art Center announces its first exhibition of 2022, “Imagining Ourselves: Celebrating Indigenous Culture, Color, and Vibrancy” by artist Haley Rains.