Nancy Marie Mithlo (Chiricahua Apache) is a professor of Gender Studies and core faculty with
the American Indian Studies Interdepartmental program at the University of California, LosAngeles.
Mithlo’s curatorial work has resulted in nine exhibits at the Venice Biennale. A life-long educator, Mithlo has taught at the University of New Mexico, the Institute of American
Indian Arts, the Santa Fe Community College, Smith College, California Institute of the Arts,Occidental College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Her 2020 book Knowing Native
Arts was published by the University of Nebraska Press.
Mithlo’s research addresses the pressing need for accurate and sensitive information for and
about American Indian communities using institutional critique, curatorial strategies and arts
analysis. She is concerned with the unequal application of resources in the arts and culture field
and the outmoded theoretical frames of analysis that tend to describe, but fail to analyze the
wealth of knowledge inherent in Native arts production and circulation.
Order her book here:
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496202123/
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