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Join artist Melissa S. Cody (Diné) for an engaging talk about her artistic practice and perspective on contemporary Indigenous art.
Melissa S. Cody (Diné, b. 1983) is a 4th-generation textile artist from No Water Mesa, Arizona. She works within the Germantown Revival style, integrating ’80s digital aesthetics with historic eyedazzler designs. Working on both a traditional Navajo loom and mechanized jacquard machine, Cody’s intricate and finely-woven tapestries create a bridge between the ancestral and the contemporary and transcend the boundaries of artistic canons. Her work has been featured in a recent solo exhibition at MoMA PS1 (2024) and in the Arts of Indigenous America galleries at the de Young.
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Re-Envisioning Native American Art at the de Young
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A dedicated team of curators has been rethinking how Native American art is displayed at the de Young. This short documentary takes you behind the scenes of their collaborative journey to reimagine our Native American art galleries, which reopened to the public on August 26, 2025.
Annual Bransten Lecture with Rose B. Simpson
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Join us for our ninth annual Bransten Lecture with multidisciplinary artist Rose B. Simpson. Working in ceramic, bronze, performance, and art cars, her practice centers around the figure as a proxy to address the emotional and existential impacts of global humanity. Simpson will discuss her practice and her upcoming exhibition "LEXICON," which will transform Wilsey Court into a Southwest environment through a large mural and two custom cars.
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Join artist Melissa S. Cody (Diné) for an engaging talk about her artistic practice and perspective on contemporary Indigenous art.
Melissa S. Cody (Diné, b. 1983) is a 4th-generation textile artist from No Water Mesa, Arizona. She works within the Germantown Revival style, integrating ’80s digital aesthetics with historic eyedazzler designs. Working on both a traditional Navajo loom and mechanized jacquard machine, Cody’s intricate and finely-woven tapestries create a bridge between the ancestral and the contemporary and transcend the boundaries of artistic canons. Her work has been featured in a recent solo exhibition at MoMA PS1 (2024) and in the Arts of Indigenous America galleries at the de Young.
Watch More:
Re-Envisioning Native American Art at the de Young
youtube.com/watch?v=xME2pD-KcTA
A dedicated team of curators has been rethinking how Native American art is displayed at the de Young. This short documentary takes you behind the scenes of their collaborative journey to reimagine our Native American art galleries, which reopened to the public on August 26, 2025.
Annual Bransten Lecture with Rose B. Simpson
youtube.com/live/gMTrlbJ0-VI
Join us for our ninth annual Bransten Lecture with multidisciplinary artist Rose B. Simpson. Working in ceramic, bronze, performance, and art cars, her practice centers around the figure as a proxy to address the emotional and existential impacts of global humanity. Simpson will discuss her practice and her upcoming exhibition "LEXICON," which will transform Wilsey Court into a Southwest environment through a large mural and two custom cars.
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![[Day 2] Bridges: Social Engagement in Artists’ Books/ 2021 Reva and David Logan Symposium](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/__Kti0abfM8/mqdefault.jpg "[Day 2] Bridges: Social Engagement in Artists’ Books/ 2021 Reva and David Logan Symposium
As potent tools for understanding, books can bridge disparate cultures. This year’s Logan Symposium brings together six powerful and courageous voices, artists who have traveled the world, and traveled within themselves, to bring back visual and poetic testimony
About the Speakers:
Laura Anderson Barbata: Book Making in the Amazon Rain Forest: Preserving a Culture
Laura Anderson Barbata, a transdisciplinary artist with studios in New York and Mexico City, produces work that, in her words, is “intended to connect various cultures . . . by engaging creative practices that promote dignity, shared values, diversity, and collaboration through reciprocal exchange of knowledge.” Her work with the Yanomami of southern Venezuela led to the production of handmade paper and an award-winning book that preserves the belief systems of their culture. The project became a tool for advocacy, social justice, self-determination, and environmental protection. (lauraandersonbarbata.com)
Clifton Meador: This Is Not Tibet
Clifton Meador combines writing, photography, printmaking, and design to make printed works that explore how the narratives of culture, history, and place are the basis for identity. For a 2006–2007 research project in Tibet, he produced detailed photo documentation of the production of printed sutras at a Tibetan temple. He later created a series of artist’s books inspired by the experience. Meador has worked as a pressman at several commercial, literary, and small–press production facilities. He is a professor in the Department of Art at Appalachian State University. (clifton-meador.com)")
