HIAA offers course through the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative

America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), "Bambi Makes Some Extra Bucks Modeling at the Studio," 2002, acrylic on panel, 24 x 30 1/2 in.

Marina Tyquiengco, a CHamoru scholar of global Indigenous art with an emphasis on Native American art and Aboriginal Australian art will again teach HIAA 1882: Indigenous Art, Issues and Concepts. We're honored to collaborate with Brown's Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative to bring her course back.

Tyquiengco is currently a PhD candidate and an Andrew W. Mellon Predoctoral Fellow. Her dissertation focuses on the concept of embodiment and Indigenous artists’ use of their bodies in art from the 1990s to today in Australia, Canada and the United States.

In addition to her scholarly work, Marina has written exhibition reviews for First American Art Magazine and Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture. Her article, “Black Velvet: Aboriginal Womanhood in the Art of Fiona Foley,” will be published in the forthcoming special issue of Feminist Studies, Indigenous Feminisms in Settler Contexts.