Guest speaker: American Meredith, Cherokee, editor of First American Art Magazine
America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) is painter, curator, educator, and editor of First American Art Magazine.[1][2] Based in Norman, Oklahoma, her work is known for its humorous approaches to social and environmental issues and for combining Native American and pop imagery.
Background
America Meredith was born in 1972 to Howard Meredith, a Cherokee author and American Indian Studies professor, and Mary Ellen Meredith, a Cherokee museum director and curator. Meredith’s maternal grandfather was William Thomas Milam, a Cherokee photographer and aeronautical engineer from Oklahoma. Both of her grandmothers were Swedish-American. W. T. Milam’s uncle was J. B. Milam, the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, and his great-uncle was Will Rogers, a Cherokee humorist, actor, and movie producer.[3]
During much of the 1990s, Meredith worked as a bike messenger in San Francisco, California, where she was active in the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6’s organizing campaign of the Bay Area urgent delivery industry.[4]
Meredith earned her AA at City College of San Francisco; her BFA in painting from the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma; and her MFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, California in 1995. She also attended the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma in Chickasha and the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.[5]
Artwork
Meredith paints with acrylic, gouache, watercolor, and egg tempera.[6] In the series, The Cherokee Spokespeople Project, handmade paintings and drawings illustrate Cherokee words that are reproduced as spokecards, which were distributed to cycle couriers and cyclists worldwide.[7]
from Wikipedia
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