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MELISSA MELERO (Fallon Paiute-Modoc) is a mixed
media artist living in Hungry Valley, Nevada. She is
currently a full-time artist and works part time for a
non-profit arts organization in Reno, Nevada. Melero
has a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts
and a Bachelor of Science from Portland State University
in Oregon. She exhibits her art throughout the United
States.
DENISE NEIL-BINION (Delaware-Cherokee)

currently resides in Norman, Oklahoma. She has just
completed her Master of Arts degree in Native American
art history from the University of New Mexico, and her
research interests center on Native American female artists
in Oklahoma. She is a PhD candidate in Native American
art history at the University of Oklahoma.

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the University of New Mexico in 2003. For the past
20 years, she has taught art history at the University of
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New Mexico, the Institute of American Indian Arts,
Santa Fe University of Art and Design, and Central New
since 1981 fetishes jewelry pottery
Mexico Community College. In 2012, she served as the
principal curator for Octopus Dreams: 200 Works on Paper
by Contemporary Native American Artists which traveled
NEEBINNAUKZHIK SOUTHALL (Chippewas 5/30/13 12:31 PM
to the Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts and the graphicIndian Market ad Quam frog v3.indd 1
of Rama First Nation) is a graphic designer and artist,
triennial at the Novosibirsk State Museum of Art; the
working in portrait photography and body painting. She
show visited four other museums in Russia and 516 Arts
earned a BFA with honors from Oregon State University’s
Gallery in Albuquerque, and will continue to Tokyo,
graphic design program and the University Honors
Japan in 2014.
College, with a minor in fine arts. She created the Native
American Graphic Design Project to increase the visibility
DUANE NIATUM ( Jamestown S’Klallam) is a poet,
of North American Indigenous graphic artists.
fiction writer, playwright, and editor living in Seattle,
Washington. He earned his BA from the University
of Washington, MA from Johns Hopkins University,
YVONNE N. TIGER (Seminole-Cherokee-Muscogee
and PhD in American Culture from the University of
Creek-Cherokee) holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree with
Michigan. Niatum served in the U.S. Navy and as an
Honors from Smith College and two Masters Degrees
editor for Harper and Row’s Native American Author
from the University of Oklahoma. She is currently a
series, and Niatum’s poetry has been widely published in
research associate for the chief-of-staff at the Muscogee
anthologies. He has earned the Governor’s Award from the
(Creek) Nation.
State of Washington and grants from the Carnegie Fund
for Authors and the PEN Fund for Writers.
JOHN TORRES-NEZ (Diné) is the chief operating
officer of the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts
STEPHANIE PRATT (Eastern Dakota) descends from
the Sisseton-Wahpeton band by her paternal grandmother, (SWAIA), which hosts Santa Fe’s annual Indian Market.
He earned his PhD in Ethnic Studies from the University
Rosa Daisy Fleury. Pratt taught art history at Plymouth
of California, Riverside. He has taught at the Institute of
University for 19 years. Her book, American Indians in
American Indian Arts since 2008. Torres-Nez has served as
British Art, 1700–1840 (University of Oklahoma Press,
a curator and tribal archaeologist and is a flintknapper and
2005) resulted from her doctoral research on the visual
beadwork artist.
representation of Native Americans in European Art.
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