Jordan Ann Craig in Conversation with Maia Rodriguez

Join artist Jordan Ann Craig for a conversation with UNM Director of Native American Studies Maia Rodriguez on the occasion of Craig’s newly signed Tamarind editions.

A printmaker at heart (the Northern Cheyenne artist was awarded High Honors for her Studio Art thesis in painting and printmaking from Dartmouth College in 2015), Jordan Ann Craig presents Indigenous design through a contemporary lens.
Craig has participated in numerous artist residencies including The Golden Paint Art Residency, Native American Artist Residency at the School for Advanced Research, Roswell Artist-in-Residence (RAiR Foundation), the Ucross Foundation, Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) Artist Residency, East London Printmakers Project Keyholder Residency, Cork Printmakers International Visiting Artist Residency, and Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, among others.

Maia Rodriguez is an enrolled member of the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas and Assistant Professor of Native American Studies at the University of New Mexico. Her research explores Indigenous worldview and aesthetics, with particular attention to how artistic and narrative forms express Indigenous relationships to place, community, sovereignty, and futurity. Her current book project, Geronimo’s Ghosts: Specters of Sovereignty in the Post-Civil Rights Ethnic American Novel, examines how narrative form articulates Indigenous resistance and reshapes the politics of coalition. Alongside her literary scholarship, she conducts community-based research with her tribe on land reclamation, cultural resurgence, and nation-building.