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Melanie Yazzie

Melanie Yazzie: Finding Oneself Again and Again

August 24, 2019February 23, 2020

Melanie Yazzie is informed by the Diné philosophy of hozho — translated as blessings, beauty, and harmony. After experiencing illness, she challenged herself to create artworks that find ways to heal from and to balance the negative effects of settler colonialism that Indigenous people live with on a daily basis. Her earlier works focused on calling attention to the harsh realities of racism, poverty, and loss of home territories. She continues to acknowledge these struggles, but now layers her artworks with recuperative images. As a Mellon Foundation Artist in Residence at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College in 2018, Yazzie began using printing plates recovered from a 1939 book project about Diné healing practices. By layering the fractional images of the color-separation plates with her own iconography formed from memories of people and places, Yazzie asserts the ongoing significance of Indigenous knowledge. This exhibition presents recent works created during the Mellon Foundation residency and over the course of a very productive time following her experience at Colorado Springs.

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Start:
August 24, 2019
End:
February 23, 2020
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Website:
https://devfac.coloradocollege.edu/exhibits/melanie-yazzie/

Venue

Fine Arts Center
30 W. Dale St.
Colorado Springs, CO 80903 United States
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(719) 634-5581