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BIO – ᒪᕐᒉᓪᓚ ᐁᕐᓀᔅᑦ

 

Marcella is a visual artist creating experimental films, video art and sound installation. Her work is often described as dreamlike and intimate. Her practice includes creative responses to the archive, research, writing, lecture + performance. Marcella’s research areas are on the varying relationships between Native art and history, sound studies, Native feminisms, queer Indigenous critique, and land justice. She received a PhD in American Studies from the University of New Mexico, an MA from the University of Washington’s Native Voices program and a BA in Ethnic Studies from Mills College. Marcella is Gunflint Lake Ojibwe and an enrolled member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior and has heritage that includes European ancestry. She is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of New Mexico where she teaches contemporary Native American art and its histories.

Before arriving at the UNM Department of Art, she was working in Tribal Historic Preservation to protect tribal cultural resources and archives, repatriation and research and community heritage activities. She was also teaching courses in American Indian Studies at the University of California Los Angeles and was a Yale University Fellow in the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.