Melanie Yazzie

[5] Melanie Yazzie works in a wide range of media that include printmaking, painting, sculpting, and ceramics, as well as installation art.

[1] A recurring motif in some of Yazzie's work has been Blue Bird flour sacks,[3] which provided clothing material to many Navajo children throughout the 20th century.

It is a paper designed originally for screen printing but is the perfect surface for many of the works Yazzie creates.

She teaches printmaking courses and travels extensively to Indigenous communities within the United States and abroad.

These exchanges include artists from Siberia, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Mexico, and Germany.

These projects are community-building events that help people connect over large distances and are often used as teaching tools in art studios across the globe.

[8] Yazzie's solo show Histories Beyond Homeland opened on October 8, 2015, at the University of Denver Museum of Anthropology.

Works displayed use gouache, an opaque version of watercolor paint, and handmade paper, in these aerial view interpretations.

[9] The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe, New Mexico opened a solo show entitled "Memory Weaving: Works by Melanie Yazzie" in May 2018.

Developments in Contemporary Native American Art Since 1992" Edited by Veronica Passalacqua and Kate Morris Compiled by James H. Nottage.

"Geographies of Memory: Melanie Yazzie", by Lisa Tamiris Becker, Lucy Lippard, UNM Art Museum 2014