Melanie Yazzie, Visions in Brittany
Melanie Yazzie
1966-
Diné (Navajo)
Date
2007
Medium Specific
Print
Edition / State
19/20
Classification
Print
Dimensions
20 x 15 in. (50.8 x 38.1 cm)
Accession Number
2007.20.20.106
Credit
Gift of the Artist
Memo / Artist Statement
I taught printmaking several summers at the Pon Aven School of Art in France between the years 199 to 2003. One of the most beautiful places in the area is a place called Carnac. It is along the gulf of Morbihan on the south coast of Brittany and is known for the most extensive Neolithic menhir collections in the world. I come from the Southwest where we have ancient sites like Chaco Canyon, and I felt a connection to these stone menhirs. I often use the image of small animals as self-portraits in my work. In this print I am dreaming and being a part of the land with the formation of Carnac on my body. I also use the images of the profiles of the houses in the areas in this work. These places I have been in Brittany, France, as always a part of me. -- Melanie Yazzie, 2025
Biography
Melanie Yazzie is Dine/Navajo of the Salt Water Clan and Bitter Water Clan of the Dine/Navajo People of North Eastern Arizona. She is Professor of Art and Head of Printmaking at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. Her works belong to many collections such as: the Anchorage Museum of History & Art, the Art Museum of Missoula, the Australian National Gallery, the Institute of American Indian Arts, the Kennedy Museum of Art and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally in places such as: Alaska, California, New Mexico, New York, Florida, New Zealand, France, Russia, Canada, Bulgaria, Portugal, Spain and Northern Ireland. She often takes part in collaborative art projects with indigenous artists form many different natoins. She has taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts, the College of Santa Fe, University of Arizona, and now at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally in places such as: Alaska, California, New Mexico, New York, Florida, New Zealand, France, Russia, Canada, Bulgaria, Portugal, Spain and Northern Ireland. She often takes part in collaborative art projects with indigenous artists form many different natoins. She has taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts, the College of Santa Fe, University of Arizona, and now at the University of Colorado, Boulder.