Dylan Miner
{{short description|Printmaker, author, and academic from Michigan, US}}
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| nationality = American
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| alma_mater = University of New Mexico (Ph.D.)
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Dylan Miner is an American artist and assistant professor at Michigan State University.
Art
As an artist, Miner has exhibited at 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, and Nokomis Center.{{cn|date=August 2023}} 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.Buhle and Schulman, 6, 106, 212 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,{{Cite web |url=http://printmakers.mb.ca/mss/exhibit/the-silence-of-sovereignty-dylan-miner |title=Martha Street Studio | |access-date=2018-11-08 |archive-date=2018-11-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108105019/http://printmakers.mb.ca/mss/exhibit/the-silence-of-sovereignty-dylan-miner |url-status=dead }}http://michaeldirisio.ca/pdf/DiRisio_Breach.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}} in Winnipeg. In 2016 he did a residency in Regina, Saskatchewan in collaboration with the MacKenzie Art Gallery, and the Dunlop Art Gallery.{{Cite web|url=http://mackenzieartgallery.ca/engage/exhibitions/dylan-miner-residency-project-in-collaboration-with-dunlop-art-gallery|title = Exhibitions}}
Miner is a member of Justseeds Radical Artist Collective. He co-founded the Campesina/o Collective.
Controversies
Chris Andersen (Métis), professor and director of the Rupertsland Centre for Métis Research at the University of Alberta,{{cite web |title=Chris Andersen |url=https://www.ubcpress.ca/chris-andersen |website=UBC Press |access-date=4 February 2022}} critiques Miner's use of Metis identity and iconography in his book "Métis": Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood. Andersen criticized Miner's racialization of Métis identity to support arguments for a Metis presence in locales with little Red River–based iconography.{{cite book |last1=Andersen |first1=Chris |title="Métis": Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood |date=May 21, 2014 |publisher=UBC Press |isbn=978-0774827218 |page=56}}
Miner is a former member of the Woodland Métis Tribe of Ontario, which is not affiliated with the Métis National Council.{{cite web |title=Red (Pedal) Power: Natives, Bikes, and Anti-Colonial Art|url=https://www.academia.edu/1964418 |accessdate=6 February 2020 |quote=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.|last1=Miner |first1=Dylan AT }}{{cite journal |last1=Young |first1=George |title=OMAA names MNO in legal action against governments |journal=Ontario Birchbark |date=2005 |volume=4 |issue=5 |page=5 |url=http://ammsa.com/publications/ontario-birchbark/omaa-names-mno-legal-action-against-governments |accessdate=6 February 2020}} He is now registered with the Métis Nation of Ontario.{{cite web |title=American Indian and Indigenous Studies |url=https://aiis.msu.edu/people1__trashed/director/ |website=Michigan State University |access-date=10 February 2022}}
Selected articles
- [http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/gallery/photo/dylan-miner-anti-authoritarian-artist-bikes-beyond-borders-148074 "Dylan Miner: An Anti-Authoritarian Artist on Bikes Beyond Borders,"] by David P. Ball, Indian Country Today Media Network
- [https://www.academia.edu/4703301/Dylan_Miner_Metis_Artist_and_Indigenous_Activist_Interview_by_America_Meredith_Tsalagi_ Métis Artist and Indigenous Activist: Dylan Miner], interview by America Meredith, First American Art Magazine, N° 1, Fall 2013
Notes
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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}}.
External links
- [http://www.dylanminer.com Dylan Miner], artist's website
- [http://rcah.msu.edu/people/ Michigan State University]
- [http://www.justseeds.org Miner's work at Just Seeds]
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Category:Michigan State University faculty