Melanie Yazzie

Melanie A. Yazzie (born 1966) is a Navajo sculptor, painter, printmaker, and professor. She teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder. There are many people with the name Melanie Yazzie including college professors. This page is about the artist and professor based in Colorado.

Early life and education Yazzie was born in 1966 in Ganado, Arizona, United States. She is Navajo of the (Salt Water Clan), born for (Bitter Water Clan). She grew up on the Navajo Nation.

Artwork Yazzie works in a wide range of media that include printmaking, painting, sculpting, and ceramics, as well as installation art.

Exhibitions A selection of major exhibitions from the 1990s to the present include "Between Two Worlds" (2008) at Arizona State University, "Traveling" at the Heard West Museum (2006), "About Face: Self-Portraits by Native American, First Nations, and Inuit Artists" at the Wheelwright Museum (2005), "Making Connections" (2002) in Bulova, Russia, "Navajo in Gisborne" (1999) in Gisborne, New Zealand and "Watchful Eyes" (1994) at the Heard Museum.

In September 2013 she co-curated the exhibition "Heart Lines: Expressions of Native North American Art" in Colorado University Art Museum, partially based on her private collection and including her work "Pollen Girl".

In February 2014, Yazzie opened the largest retrospective of her work in 20 years at the University of New Mexico (UNM) Art Museum titled Geographies of Memory curated by Lisa Tamiris Becker, director of the UNM Art Museum. The exhibit ran through May 2014. A catalogue accompanied the exhibition.

Yazzie's solo show Histories Beyond Homeland opened on October 8, 2015, at the University of Denver Museum of Anthropology. This exhibition consists of Yazzie's depiction of landscape drawings, drawn from the perspective of someone looking down at the earth. Works displayed use gouache, an opaque version of watercolor paint, and handmade paper, in these aerial view interpretations.

The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe, New Mexico opened a solo show entitled "Memory Weaving: Works by Melanie Yazzie" in May 2018. The exhibit continued through October 6, 2018. thumb Public collections

Yazzie's artwork is in numerous museums' collections. These include the New Mexico Museum of Art ; Rhode Island School of Design , Print Collection; the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Art; the Kennedy Museum of Art, Art Collection, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio; Rhodes University, Print Collection, Grahamstown, South Africa; City of Boulder, Colorado; Boulder Arts + Culture; New Mexico Arts in Public Places; Art in Embassies: US Department of State; and Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian Washington, DC. , University of Denver, CO, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM, The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, NM, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM