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Education

1987 Indiana University, Masters of Fine Arts, Bloomington, Indiana
1979 Wichita State University, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Wichita, Kansas
1972 Haskell Indian Junior College, Associate of Arts, Lawrence, Kansas

Selected Exhibitions

2003 UNVEILING, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Centennial – Bicentennial: Lewis and Clark in Perspective, The Montana Museum of Art and Culture,
Missoula, Montana
SEE WORTH: Vessels from the Desert Southwest, Northern Michigan University Art Museum, Marquette,
Michigan.
2002 Can’t see the forest through the trees, Installation, Boise Art Museum, Boise, Montana
North Eastern Art Gallery, North Eastern University, Ada, Oklahoma
2001 Dartmouth University, Hood Museum, Hanover, New Hampshire
Above Highway 7 Group Show, Sudbury Art Gallery, Sudbury, Ontario
2000 Reservation X, Smithsonian Museum of Indian Art, New York, New York
Material Culture, Paris Gibson Museum, Great Falls, Montana
1999 Route 66 Sculpture Show, White Box Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Transitional Status, Installation, Mobius Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1998 Reservation X, First Civilization Museum, Hull, Quebec, Canada
Sex and Shamanism: The Seduction of Stereotypes and Misrepresentations of Native Peoples, C. N.
Gorman Museum, University of Davis, Davis, California
We are One, We are Many, Touring Exhibition, La Cross, Wisconsin
1997 7th Native American Fine Art Invitational, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ.
Indian Casinos: Slots and Sovereignty, C. N. Gorman Museum, University of Davis, Davis, California
1996 Women of Color Exhibition, Federal Bank Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Up and Running, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1995 SITE Santa Fe Regional Artist Show, The Warehouse, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Mapped Out: Reinventing the New Mexico Landscape, Fine Arts Gallery, School of the Arts, University of
California, Irvine, California
GHOST LIGHTS, Collaboration Installation with Melanie Yazzie, Institute of American Indian Arts
Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1994 Watchful Eyes; Native American Women Artists, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Volume I: Book Arts by Native American Artists, American Indian Community House Gallery, New York,
New York
Artists Who Are Indian, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
1993 501 Blues/501 Years of Post Columbian Resistance in the Americas, Core Gallery, Denver, Colorado
Before There Were Boarders/Beyond Imaginary Lines, The Gallery at the Rep, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Awards and Honors

2000 Andrea Frank Foundation, Artist Grant Award, New York, New York
1998 The Joan Mitchell Foundation, Inc., Sculptor Grant Award, New York, New York
1995 SITE Santa Fe, Regional and Local Artist Endorsement Award, Santa Fe,New Mexico
1990 Randolph Street Gallery, New Forms Regional Grant, Alternative Arts Category, National
Endowment Award Funded, Chicago, Illinois
1982-1985 Associate Instructor Graduate Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
1978-1979 Miller Art Scholarship, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas
1978-1979 Minority Studies Scholarship, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas
1973 Indian Arts Studies, Fine Arts Award, Haskell Indian Junior College, Lawrence, Kansas.ADMINISTRATION EXPERIENCE
2002 - 2004 Dean, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2000 - 2002 Associate Dean, White Mountain Academy of the Arts, Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada
1994 - 1996 Foundation Art Department Chair, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Publications

2000 Material Culture: innovation in native art, catalog, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls,
Montana, pg. 28 - 31. New York Times, Reservation X review, May 4
1999 The New Tribe, Critical Perspective and Practices in Aboriginal Contemporary Art, Gerald R. McMasters, pg. 225-229
Art in 2 Worlds: The Native American Fine Art Invitational 1983-1997, Margaret Archuleta, American Indian Art, Spring Issue, pg. 33
Artists, Charlene Teters, Indian Artists, Winter Issue
1998 Reservation X Catalog, First Civilization Museum, Hull, Quebec, Canada, pg. 149-157.
The Power of Place in Aboriginal Contemporary Art, ABORIGINAL VOICES, May/June, Canada, Vol. 5,
No. 3, pg. 34-37.
The Canadian Museum of Civilization, INDIAN ARTIST, Spring, pg. 60.
Immortalizing the prison and sanctuary; No reservation required, X Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,
April 30.
Another side of aboriginal art, The Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, April 23.
1997 Earth Song, The Heard Museum Newsletter, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, Fall.
7th Native American Fine Art Invitational Catalog, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona.
1996 SITE Santa Fe Regional Artist Show Review, The Albuquerque Journal, Arts and Entertainment section, January.
1995 INDIAN ARTIST, The Magazine of Contemporary Native American Art, Voices, Santa Fe, New Mexico,
vol. 1, number 1, Spring.
Review: Installation - Ghost Lights, Institute of American Indian Art Museum, THE, Art Magazine, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April.
1994 Artists Who are Indian, On & Off The Wall, Denver Art Museum News, Denver, Colorado,J an/Feb, pg. 4.
Watchful Eyes: Native American Women Artists Catalogue, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona.