Dylan Miner

Dylan AT Miner, PhD (b. 1976) is an artist, activist, scholar, prolific writer, and transformational leader. Starting in Fall 2023, Miner began a new position as Professor and Senior Associate Dean of Research, Creative Practice, and Graduate Education in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. He is formerly Dean and Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH) at Michigan State University.

He is a founding member of the artist collective Justseeds. As an artist, he has hung nearly 30 solo art exhibitions and participated in more than 115 group exhibitions. He has created graphics for numerous community organizations, social justice campaigns, and environmental organizations.

Miner has published extensively, with chapters in books by Duke University Press, Yale University Press, and Oxford University Press. His book Creating Aztlán: Chicano Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Lowriding Across Turtle Island (2014) was published by the University of Arizona Press.

Born and raised in Michigan, Miner is a registered citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario. His most recent publication is "Rivers of Resistance: A History of the Métis Nation of Ontario" in the September/October 2022 issue of Canadian Geographic.

Key Sites

• Miner’s Website: Projects, Exhibitions, Graphics//Prints, Videos, Writings, Teaching
• Justseeds: Dylan A.T. Miner

Commentaries, Interviews, and Lectures

• "Dylan Miner: An Anti-Authoritarian Artist on Bikes Beyond Borders," by David P. Ball, Indian Country Today Media Network
• "Métis Artist and Indigenous Activist: Dylan Miner", interview by _America Meredith_, First American Art Magazine, No. 1, Fall 2013
• Indigenous Art as Creative Resistance: A Conversation with Dylan Miner
• "Dylan Miner: Aki-gikendamowin (Learning from the Land): Indigenous Art, Ecology, and Aesthetics"

Readings

• Dunbar-Ortiz, R. (2023). An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States. Beacon Press.
• Estes, N. (2019). Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance. Verso Books.
• Estes, N., & Dhillon, J. (Eds.). (2019). Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement. University of Minnesota Press.
• Simpson, L. B. (2017). As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance. University of Minnesota Press.
• Coulthard, G. S. (2014). Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. University of Minnesota Press.

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