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04/07/2021 with Zachary Miller

Zachary Miller (Chickasaw), 2019-2021 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation curatorial fellow and curator, discusses the exhibition Shonto Begay:  Eyes of the World, featuring the work of Navajo Neo-Impressionist artist Shonto Begay. Autobiographical in nature, Begay's paintings visually narrate his connection to the Navajo landscape, personal histories, and cosmology.

Zachary Miller (Chickasaw), 2019-2021 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation curatorial fellow discusses the exhibition Shonto Begay: Eyes of the World, featuring the work of Navajo Neo-Impressionist artist Shonto Begay. Autobiographical in nature, Begay's paintings visually narrate his connection to the Navajo landscape, personal histories, and cosmology. Shonto Begay a Navajo painter and storyteller. His strong support of environmental issues is not only offered through his paintings, but in his capacity as an author, poet and illustrator, and his leadership in community projects like youth murals and painting workshops. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff, AZ; the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona in Tucson, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, in Salt Lake City, and the Phoenix Art Museum to name a few. His work is in the collections of Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, NM; The Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA; Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ; Institute of American Indian Art, Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe, NM; The James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art, St. Petersburg, FL; and the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.. He received an Associate of Fine Arts degree at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, and a Bachelor of Arts from California College of Arts. He worked for over a decade in the 1980’s as a National Park Service ranger at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming and the Navajo National Monument in Arizona.

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