Dylan Miner

Dylan Miner is an artist and assistant professor at Michigan State University.

Art

As an artist, Miner has exhibited widely, including the Institute of American Indian Arts, the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, National Museum of Mexican Art, Native American Rights Fund, La Galería de la Raza, Nokomis Center and countless alternative and university galleries, community centers, union halls, and anarchist bookstores. His working-class comics are included in Studs Terkel’s Working: A Graphic Adaptation (New Press, 2009) and Wobblies: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World.[1] In 2005, as part of the centennial celebrations of the founding of the IWW, Miner’s two-person exhibition with Carlos Cortéz Koyokuikatl traveled throughout North America and the world. In 2010, he was awarded an Artist Leadership fellowship from the National Museum of the American Indian. From this award, he created the exhibition Anishinaabensag Biimskowebshkigewag (Native Kids Ride Bikes). In 2010 and 2011, Miner had nine solo exhibitions, Urban Shaman Gallery, in Winnipeg, Manitoba and various university galleries. In 2015 he exhibited at the Martha Street Studio[2][3], in Winnipeg. In 2016 he did a residency in Regina, Saskatchewan in collaboration with the MacKenzie Art Gallery, and the Dunlop Art Gallery.[4].

Miner is a member of Justseeds Radical Artist Collective. He co-founded the Campesina/o Collective.

Controversies

The Metis scholar Dr. Chris Andersen found fault with Miner's use of Metis identity and iconography in his book Metis: Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood. Dr. Andersen criticized Miner's racialization of Metis identity to support arguments for a Metis presence in locales with little Red-River-based iconography.[5] Miner's membership in the Woodland Métis Tribe of Ontario is not affiliated with the Métis National Council or the Métis Nation of Ontario. Tony Belcourt stated in 2005 that he does not know who OMAA members are, but that they are not Metis.[6][7]

Selected Articles

Notes
  1. Buhle and Schulman, 6, 106, 212
  2. http://printmakers.mb.ca/mss/exhibit/the-silence-of-sovereignty-dylan-miner
  3. http://michaeldirisio.ca/pdf/DiRisio_Breach.pdf
  4. http://mackenzieartgallery.ca/engage/exhibitions/dylan-miner-residency-project-in-collaboration-with-dunlop-art-gallery
  5. Andersen, Chris (May 21, 2014). Metis: Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood. UBC Press. p. 56. ISBN 0774827211.
  6. "Red (Pedal) Power: Natives, Bikes, and Anti-Colonial Art". Retrieved 6 February 2020. Miner is an artist, historian and critic from Michigan as well as being a member of the Woodland Métis Tribe of Ontario who currently finds himself in Albuquerque teaching at the University of New Mexico.
  7. Young, George (2005). "OMAA names MNO in legal action against governments". Ontario Birchbark. 4 (5): 5. Retrieved 6 February 2020.

References
  • Buhle, Paul and Nicole Schulman. Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World. Verso, 2005. ISBN 978-1-84467-525-8.
  • McPhee, Josh and Erik Reuland. Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority. Oakland: AK Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-904859-32-1.
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