First American Art Magazine No. 2, Spring 2014 | Seite 9

Be Keen. Be Seen... Advertise firstamericanartmagazine.com/advertise.html Subscribe Proud to Support the Arts firstamericanartmagazine.com/subscribe.html Join the conversation www.facebook.com/FirstAmericanArt The New Voice of Native American Art 1-800-590-2580 nbcok.com Member FDIC OKLAHOMA CITY · ALTUS · ENID · KINGFISHER · TULSA prosecutor and liaison to Indian tribal governments in western Oklahoma. He is the founder and President of the Oklahoma Indian Bar Association. Mikkanen graduated from Dartmouth College and earned his Juris Doctorate from Yale Law School. Recently, he received the US Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service in Indian Country. He is interested in and a collector of Indian art and formerly served as Chair the Board of Trustees of the Jacobson Foundation in Norman, Oklahoma. 3.625" W x 4.75" H STEPHANIE PRATT, PhD (Eastern Dakota), descends DAVID WINFIELD NORMAN (American-Norwegian) is Chair of the Museum Studies Program at the Institute of American Indian Art. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Washington, where she earned her Masters Degree in Sociocultural Anthropology. is a writer and art historian living in Oslo. He has studied at the University of Glasgow and the University of Oslo where his focus was contemporary art and culture in the circumpolar North and North Atlantic regions. His writing on Greenlandic art and exhibition strategies is in CONDITIONS and the catalogue to the Danish-Greenlandic pavilion at the 13th Venice Biennale. DG NANOUK OKPIK (Iñupiaq-Inuk) is originally from Alaska’s Arctic Slope, and her family lives in Barrow. She earned a BFA in Creative Writing from IAIA and an MFA in Creative Writing from Stonecoast College. okpik was awarded the Truman Capote Fellowship. Corpse Whale (University of Arizona Press, 2012) is her first full-length book. Her poetry has been published in Touchstone, Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry, Many Mountains Moving, Poet Lore, Washington Square, Red Ink, and Sentence. Her work has been anthologized in Effigies: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from the Pacific Rim (Salt Publishing, 2009) and Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas (University of Arizona Press, 2011). from the Sisseton-Wahpeton band by her paternal grandmother, Rosa Daisy Fleury. Pratt taught art history at Plymouth University for 19 years. Her book, American Indians in British Art, 1700–1840 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2005) resulted from her doctoral research on the visual representation of Native Americans in European Art. She lives in the United Kingdom. JESSIE RYKER-CRAWFORD (White Earth Chippewa) NEEBINNAUKZHIK SOUTHALL (Chippewas of Rama First Nation) is a graphic designer and artist, working in portrait photography and body painting. She earned an honors BFA from Oregon State University’s Graphic Design Program and the University Honors College, with a minor in Fine Arts. She created the Native American Graphic Design Project to increase the visibility of North American Indigenous graphic artists. MATTHEW RYAN SMITH, PhD, is a writer, independent curator, and sessional professor at the OCAD University and the Haliburton School of the Arts, Fleming College. Currently based in Toronto, Smith’s writings have appeared in several Canadian and international publications including Canadian Art, C Magazine, FUSE, Afterimage, and ArtUS. SP RI NG 2 0 1 4 | 7