Melanie Yazzie, Winter Stories, 17/20
Melanie Yazzie
1966-
Diné (Navajo)
Date
2013
Medium Specific
print
Classification
Print
Dimensions
11 x 8 in. (27.9 x 20.3 cm)
Accession Number
2013.20.20.21
Credit
Gift of the Artist
Memo / Artist Statement
The images in this print are inspired by winter stories told at home. Within our Navajo way many creation stories are only told during winter months. These stories are about the right and wrong way to live and how to treat each other. The main characters in these special stories are animals and plants from home. Home for me is the Navajo Nation in Northeastern Arizona.
I have had many personal ups and downs and I am at a point in my life where I am attempting to live quiet and see the positive in life. Its is a hard thing to do but I try everyday to think of many good things and see the light all around. This project is one such good thing.
I have had many personal ups and downs and I am at a point in my life where I am attempting to live quiet and see the positive in life. Its is a hard thing to do but I try everyday to think of many good things and see the light all around. This project is one such good thing.
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.
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