Dylan AT Miner
Dylan AT Miner, PhD is an artist, activist, and scholar. He is Director of American Indian and Indigenous Studies, as well as Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, at Michigan State University. In Spring 2019, he was Denison Visiting Professor of Native American Studies at Central Michigan University. In 2010, he was an Artist Leadership Fellow at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. He serves on the board of the Michigan Indian Education Council and is a founding member of the Justseeds artist collective.
His book Creating Aztlán: Chicano Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Lowriding Across Turtle Island was published by the University of Arizona Press. His scholarly writing has been published and distributed by Duke University Press, Yale University Press, Washington State University Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, Oxford University Press, Michigan State University Press, University of Arizona Press, University of Toronto Press, Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, and Blackwell, among others. He has published multiple risograph books and booklets, including an artist’s book titled Aanikoobijigan // Waawaashkeshi; a booklet on Métis and Anishinaabe beadwork; a chapbook on quillwork; a notebook for learners of the Odawa and Ojibwe language; and a poem-book titled Bakobiigwaashkwani // She Jumps into the Water.
In 2018, he began collaborating to re-print early twentieth-century graphics from the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). He has hung 28 solo art exhibitions, as well as participated in more than 115 group exhibitions. In the past year, he has exhibited in the Biennale d’art contemporain autochtone in Montreal and at the National Gallery of Canada. He recently hung a solo exhibition entitled “These Conditions Can Be Changed” at the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre and is preparing a solo exhibition at the University of Michigan for 2022. Miner is presently working on a multivolume portfolio of prints on activist-athletes and a risograph book of floral beadwork patterns.
Miner is a registered citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario.
His book Creating Aztlán: Chicano Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Lowriding Across Turtle Island was published by the University of Arizona Press. His scholarly writing has been published and distributed by Duke University Press, Yale University Press, Washington State University Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, Oxford University Press, Michigan State University Press, University of Arizona Press, University of Toronto Press, Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, and Blackwell, among others. He has published multiple risograph books and booklets, including an artist’s book titled Aanikoobijigan // Waawaashkeshi; a booklet on Métis and Anishinaabe beadwork; a chapbook on quillwork; a notebook for learners of the Odawa and Ojibwe language; and a poem-book titled Bakobiigwaashkwani // She Jumps into the Water.
In 2018, he began collaborating to re-print early twentieth-century graphics from the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). He has hung 28 solo art exhibitions, as well as participated in more than 115 group exhibitions. In the past year, he has exhibited in the Biennale d’art contemporain autochtone in Montreal and at the National Gallery of Canada. He recently hung a solo exhibition entitled “These Conditions Can Be Changed” at the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre and is preparing a solo exhibition at the University of Michigan for 2022. Miner is presently working on a multivolume portfolio of prints on activist-athletes and a risograph book of floral beadwork patterns.
Miner is a registered citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario.
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underpaid // unpaid
undo the pain, of lost
practices, knowledges, our
relationships with animals
plants who sing our names
we no longer hear.
A beading template book for teaching Métis and Anishinaabe beading to youth and community groups.
Using the idea that lowriding is an Indigenous way of being in the world, artist and historian Dylan A. T. Miner discusses the multiple roles that Aztlán has played at various moments in time, from the Pre-Cuauhtemoc codices through both Spanish and American colonial regimes, past the Chicano Movement and into the present-day. Across this “migration story”, Miner challenges notions of mestizaje and asserts Aztlán, as visualized by Xicano artists, as a form of Indigenous sovereignty.
Throughout this book, Miner employs Indigenous and Native American methodologies to show that Chicano art needs to be understood in the context of Indigenous history, anti-colonial struggle, and Native American studies. Miner pays particular attention to art outside the U.S. Southwest and includes discussions of work by Nora Chapa Mendoza, Gilbert “Magú” Luján, Santa Barraza, Malaquías Montoya, Carlos Cortéz Koyokuikatl, Favianna Rodríguez, and Dignidad Rebelde, which includes Melanie Cervantes and Jesús Barraza.
With sixteen pages of color images, this book will be crucial to those interested in art history, anthropology, philosophy, and Chicano and Native American studies. Creating Aztlán interrogates the historic and important role that Aztlán plays in Chicano and Indigenous art and culture.