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Melanie Yazzie was born in Ganado, Arizona in 1966.She is Navajo of the Áshįįhí, born for Tó Dichʼíinii. She grew up on the Navajo Nation.
She first studied art at the Westtown School in Pennsylvania. Yazzie earned a BA at Arizona State University in 1990 and an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1993. She is currently a Professor and Head of Printmaking at The University of Colorado at Boulder. She has also taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts, the College of Santa Fe (now Santa Fe University of Art and Design), Boise State University, and the University of Arizona, Yazzie taught at the Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art in France. She is included in books by Zena Pearlstone (About Face), Lucy Lippard (The Lure of the Local) and Jackson Rushing (Native American Art in the Twentieth Century), and collected nationally and internationally in private and public collections. |
2015
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This project is made possible with the generous support of the following:
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I'd like to thank the great print assistants we had on this project: Jason Clark, Beth Huhtala, Tressa Jones, David Tarullo and Wilson Smith.
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2014
Melanie worked with students and printmaking faculty to create a beautiful series of 40 monotypes. I'd like to thank the great print assistants we had on this project: Jason Clark, Tressa Jones and Beth Huhtala.
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