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MELISSA MELERO (Fallon Paiute-Modoc) is a mixed media artist living in Hungry Valley, Nevada. She is currently a full-time artist and works part time for a non-profit arts organization in Reno, Nevada. Melero has a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and a Bachelor of Science from Portland State University in Oregon. She exhibits her art throughout the United States. DENISE NEIL-BINION (Delaware-Cherokee) currently resides in Norman, Oklahoma. She has just completed her Master of Arts degree in Native American art history from the University of New Mexico, and her research interests center on Native American female artists in Oklahoma. She is a PhD candidate in Native American art history at the University of Oklahoma. Indian Market 2013 KESHi thezuniconnection 227 don gaspar santa fe nm 505.989.8728 www.keshi.com Saturday, August 17: 11 AM—1PM Jeff Shetima 2PM—4PM Jackie & Norman Cooeyate SUZANNE FRICKE NEWMAN (Ashkenazi- Sunday, August 18: American) completed her PhD in Art History, with an 11AM—2PM Quam Family Frog by Andrew & Laura Quam emphasis on 20th century Native American pottery, at the University of New Mexico in 2003. For the past 20 years, she has taught art history at the University of All proceeds go directly to the artists. New Mexico, the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe University of Art and Design, and Central New since 1981 fetishes jewelry pottery Mexico Community College. In 2012, she served as the principal curator for Octopus Dreams: 200 Works on Paper by Contemporary Native American Artists which traveled NEEBINNAUKZHIK SOUTHALL (Chippewas 5/30/13 12:31 PM to the Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts and the graphicIndian Market ad Quam frog v3.indd 1 of Rama First Nation) is a graphic designer and artist, triennial at the Novosibirsk State Museum of Art; the working in portrait photography and body painting. She show visited four other museums in Russia and 516 Arts earned a BFA with honors from Oregon State University’s Gallery in Albuquerque, and will continue to Tokyo, graphic design program and the University Honors Japan in 2014. College, with a minor in fine arts. She created the Native American Graphic Design Project to increase the visibility DUANE NIATUM ( Jamestown S’Klallam) is a poet, of North American Indigenous graphic artists. fiction writer, playwright, and editor living in Seattle, Washington. He earned his BA from the University of Washington, MA from Johns Hopkins University, YVONNE N. TIGER (Seminole-Cherokee-Muscogee and PhD in American Culture from the University of Creek-Cherokee) holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree with Michigan. Niatum served in the U.S. Navy and as an Honors from Smith College and two Masters Degrees editor for Harper and Row’s Native American Author from the University of Oklahoma. She is currently a series, and Niatum’s poetry has been widely published in research associate for the chief-of-staff at the Muscogee anthologies. He has earned the Governor’s Award from the (Creek) Nation. State of Washington and grants from the Carnegie Fund for Authors and the PEN Fund for Writers. JOHN TORRES-NEZ (Diné) is the chief operating officer of the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts STEPHANIE PRATT (Eastern Dakota) descends from the Sisseton-Wahpeton band by her paternal grandmother, (SWAIA), which hosts Santa Fe’s annual Indian Market. He earned his PhD in Ethnic Studies from the University Rosa Daisy Fleury. Pratt taught art history at Plymouth of California, Riverside. He has taught at the Institute of University for 19 years. Her book, American Indians in American Indian Arts since 2008. Torres-Nez has served as British Art, 1700–1840 (University of Oklahoma Press, a curator and tribal archaeologist and is a flintknapper and 2005) resulted from her doctoral research on the visual beadwork artist. representation of Native Americans in European Art. FAL L 2 0 1 3 | 7