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Artist Talk: Teresa Baker In Conversation with Dr. Scott Manning Stevens Associate Professor and Director of Native American and Indigenous Studies at Syracuse University. This public programming event takes place on the occasion of Teresa Baker's exhibition "Pulling Up The Prairie" at de boer gallery, Los Angeles, Calfiornia.

This conversation took place on Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Teresa Baker is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes in Western, ND. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Interface Gallery, Oakland in 2019, and Gray Contemporary, Houston in 2018. She has exhibited widely in the San Francisco Bay area at venues such as Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, di Rosa, the Wattis Institute, Kiria Koula, Et al., and The Luggage Store Gallery. In 2016 she had her first solo museum show with the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX. She was the 2020 Native American Fellow for Visual Artists at the Ucross Foundation, Tournesol Award Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, 2013–2014 Artist-in-Residence at The MacDowell Colony, 2015. Baker received her MFA from California College of the Arts and her BA from Fordham University.

Dr. Scott Manning Stevens is a citizen of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation and holds a Ph.D. and master’s degree from Harvard University. A highly sought-after educator, Stevens has taught at a number of universities, including Harvard, Arizona State and SUNY Buffalo. He is an associate professor and Director of Native American and Indigenous Studies at Syracuse University. He has held several fellowships at major archives, including the John Carter Brown and the Newberry libraries. Stevens has lectured broadly throughout the United States and internationally. He is currently a Fulbright Research Fellow in Hungary.

An avid researcher, Dr. Stevens’ primary areas of interest include diplomatic and cultural strategies of resistance among North American Indians in the face of European and American settler colonialism, as well as the political and aesthetic issues that surround museums and the indigenous cultures they put on display. He has published broadly on Native American art and settler depictions of Indigenous peoples. Next year Stevens will be a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Research, where he will finish book-length research project titled “Indian Collectibles: Appropriations and Resistance in the Haudenosaunee Homelands.”