Best Practices in Representation

 

Mural Painting by Diego Rivera of Tinochitlan 1519

Our guest faculty this week is Dr. Ashley Minner. Dr. Minner is a community based visual artist from Baltimore, Maryland and an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. She received her MFA (’11) and MA (’07) in Community Arts, and her BFA (’05) in General Fine Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art. She recently earned her PhD ('20) in American Studies from University of Maryland College Park. Ashley works as a professor of the practice and folklorist in the Department of American Studies at University of Maryland Baltimore County, where she also serves as director of the minor in Public Humanities. She will be working with us on developing best practices in representation.

Here are some links to her work.

ashleyminnerart.com / @ashleyminnerart 

Ashley Minner, Reclaiming Space for the Lumbee Indians of Baltimore - Smithsonian Folklife Magazine

Art AND: Ashley Minner - BmoreArt

 A quest to reconstruct Baltimore's American Indian 'reservation' - The Conversation

 Dr. Minner has asked us to read two texts before coming to class on Tuesday morning.  In addition she has given us a few questions to add to our inventory.  The readings and questions are available on the Activity Page for this week. Please read them.