Nancy Marie Mithlo facts for kids
Nancy Marie Mithlo is a smart and talented person from the Chiricahua Apache tribe. She works as a curator, which means she helps organize art shows. She is also a writer and a professor. She has taught about gender studies and American Indian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Nancy has written and edited many books about Native Americans and their amazing art. Her art shows have even been displayed at the famous Venice Biennale!
About Nancy Marie Mithlo
Nancy Marie Mithlo was born in 1961. She is part of the Chiricahua Apache tribe and is a member of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe. Her family lives in Apache, Oklahoma. She grew up in Mississippi.
Nancy went to the Institute of American Indian Arts to study art. She earned her first college degree from Appalachian State University in 1986. Later, she earned her master's degree and a doctorate (a very high degree) in cultural anthropology from Stanford University.
Her Amazing Work
Nancy Marie Mithlo has held important jobs. She was the head of American Indian Studies at the Autry National Center Institute. She has also been a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. There, she taught about gender studies and American Indian Studies.
Nancy has helped create and organize nine art shows for the Venice Biennale. This is a very big and famous art event! For example, two of her shows, "Air, Land, Seed" and "Octopus Dreams," were part of the 2013 Venice Biennale. In 2019, she had an exhibition called "The People's Home: The United American Indian Involvement Photographic Project." In this show, Nancy explored how Native Americans live in modern Los Angeles.
Nancy has also edited several important books. In 2011, she edited Manifestations: New Native Art Criticism. This book shared different views on Indigenous art today. Another book she edited in 2014 was about the photographs of Horace Poolaw, called For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw. People said this book was an "outstanding work." In late 2020, Nancy edited Making History. She explained that this book helps young Native art scholars and other readers understand the field of American Indian arts.
