Land/Trust Programming:  In conjunction with the exhibition Land/Trust, currently on view in the Meyerhoff Gallery at Maryland Institute College of Art, the Curatorial Practice graduate class of 2019 is excited to welcome artist Demian DinéYazhi' to Baltimore for a poetry reading.

Demian DinéYazhi’ (b. 1983 Gallup, NM) is a transdisciplinary artist whose work archives and explores memory formation, landscape representation, HIV/AIDS-related art & activism, gender and sexuality, and indigenous survivance. In 2010, DinéYazhi' founded the Indigenous artist/activist/warrior collective, R.I.S.E.: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment and co-directed the publication Locusts: A Post-Queer Nation Zine. In 2016, DinéYazhi' was an artist-in-residence at the Institute of American Indian Arts. The artist has received grants from Evergreen State College (2014, 2016), PICA – Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (2014, 2016), Art Matters Foundation (2015), and Potlatch Fund (2016) and is a recipient of Crow’s Shadow 2017 Golden Spot Residency. DinéYazhi' lives and works in Portland, OR.

Poetry and posters by DinéYazhi' are currently on view in Land/Trust.