Charlene Teters

E-Mail: charleneteters@mac.com

Website: https://www.charleneteters.com

Born: Spokane, WA. Spokane Tribal Member

Education

M.F.A. 1994 University of Illinois

B.F.A. 1988 College of Santa Fe

A.F.A. 1986 Institute of American Indian Arts

Honorary Degrees

Doctorate of Humanities 2021, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Doctorate, Fine Arts 2000, Mitchell College, New London, Connecticut

Professional Experience

2021- present Board Member, Gonzaga University, School of Leadership Studies

2021- present Board Member, Strategic National Art Alumni Project

2014-2021 Academic Dean, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM

1997-2020 Associate Professor, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM

2005 – 2007 Professor, Hugh O. LaBounty Chair of Interdisciplinary Applied Knowledge, Cal Poly Pomona, CA

Grants/Fellowships/Awards

2017 Women’s Caucus for Art, Lifetime Achievement Award

2010 Vision Project, Artist, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM

2008 New Mexico’s Feminist Art Pioneers, award

2003-2004 W.K. Kellogg Leadership Fellow.

Allan Houser Memorial Award, New Mexico Governors Award for Excellence in the

Arts

1997 Person of the Week, ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings

1995 New Forms Regional Initiative Grant, DiverseWorks, Art Space

Art Matters Fellowship, Art Matters Foundation

Solo Exhibitions

2020 Way of Sorrows, MoCNA, Santa Fe, NM

2007 Man, Studio 266, Pomona, CA

2004 We Were Like Custer, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM

2003 Home of the Brave, Notre Dame College, Cleveland, OH

Baseball and Playing Indian, American Museum of Natural History

1999 ROUTE 66 REVISITED: It Was Only an Indian, Magnifico Art Space,

Albuquerque, NM

Poe Gae, The Watering Place, Public Art Installation, Santa Fe, NM

1996 We, the Invisible People, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA

1995 The Good White Man, Spokane Falls Community College, Spokane, WA

1994 It Was Only an Indian, American Indian Community House Gallery, NYC

1993 It Was Only an Indian, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM

Into Indian Country, Center for Contemporary Arts Museum, Santa Fe, NM

1992 American Holocaust, Sculpture Project, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019 Faculty Exhibition: Contemporary Edge, Santa Fe, NM

2018 Without Boundaries: Visual Conversations, MoCNA

2017 Without Boundaries: Visual Conversations, Anchorage Museum, AK

2012 Agitated Histories, SITE Santa Fe, NM

2006 Native Pop, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM

2005 Changing Hands 2, Without Reservations, Museum of Art and Design, NYC

2004 Only Skin Deep, December 2003-February 2004

Tour dates, Seattle Art Museum, March – June 2004.

San Diego Museum of Art, thru December 2005.

2003 Holponiyochi” Contemporary Native American Sculpture. Wright State

The Art of Community, Institute of American Indian Arts Faculty Exhibit

Daily Terrors, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM

2001 CSF, Sculpture Project, Invitational, Santa Fe, NM

2000 Over the Edges: The Corners of Ghent, organized by SMAK, Museum of

Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium; curated by Jon Hoet and Giacinto Di Pietrantonio

EV+A 2000, Friends and Neighbors, International Exhibition, organized by Limerick City Gallery; curated by Rosa Martinez

1999 Looking for a Place, Third International Biennial, Catalog, SITE Santa Fe; curated by Rosa Martinez

Sculpture 2000, International, Outdoor sculpture exhibition, New London, CT

1997 The Rio Grande Project: A River Thirsting For Itself, Santa Fe Council for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM

Selected Lectures

2020 Gonzaga University, WA

2019 California State San Bernardino, CA

2016 Penn State, State College, PA

Kansas University, Lawrence, Kansas

2015 Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

2014 New Mexico State University,

Reed College, Vine Deloria Jr Lecture Series, Portland OR

Native American Student Advocacy Institute, Albuquerque, NM

2013 Pitzer College, Claremont, CA

2012 SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN

2011 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Gonzaga University, Institute for Hate Studies, Spokane, WA

2010 California State University, San Bernardino, CA “Conversations in Diversity”

Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, Student Leadership Conference

Fielding Gradate University, Santa Barbara, CA

2009 People of Color Conference, Keynote Speaker, Denver, CO

Student Diversity Leadership Conference, Denver, CO

Augsburg, Minneapolis, MN

2008 Through the Flower, Belen, NM

Cal Poly Pomona, California

Cleveland, Ohio

New Mexico State University, NM

Wyoming conference

Yakima Community College

Yakima Teachers Conference

2007 Fielding Institute

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

National Indian Education Conference, workshop speaker

2006 Miami University, Ohio

University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

Bowling Green State University

Tulsa Indian Coalition Against Racism Awards speaker

Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

2005 Mt San Antonio Community College, CA

Central Michigan University

Georgia College and State University,

2003 Tufts University, MA

Oberlin College, OH

Notre Dame College, OH

Ohio Wesleyan University, OH

Penn State, College of Education, PA

Cornell University, NY

2002 Columbia University, NY

Connecticut College, CT

Ossining School District, NY

Drake University, IO

University of Iowa, IO

Michigan Indian Education Conference, Traverse City Keynote Address

National Indian Education Conference, MT

Illinois State University, IL

2001 Facing History and Ourselves, New York Historical Society, NY

American Museum of Natural History, NY

California State University, Monterey Bay, CA

Commission on Racial Justice Conference, UCC National, Cleveland, OH

Ohio State University, OH

Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO

Lake Erie College, Painesville, OH

Arizona State University-West, Phoenix, AZ

Mesa State College, Grand Junction, CO

2000 Penn State, State College, PA

Museum of Nature Science, Houston, TX

Mitchell College, New London, CT

American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY

University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, WI

University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL

1999 Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA

University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Harvard Law School, Keynote Address, “Defining Our Vision, Defending Our Voice”,

Women of Color Collective, Cambridge, MA

Colby College, The Ralph J. Bunche Scholar Symposium, Keynote Address

Bradley University, Peoria, IL

University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

National Association for Treasurers of Religious Institutes, Panelist, PA

“Human Face to Human Rights”

NASA, Keynote, 1999 Glenn Native American Observance, Cleveland, OH

University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

University of New Mexico, “Public Art & Public Space” with Lucy Lippard,

Albuquerque, NM

Selected Bibliography

By Artist: Articles –

“Looking for a Place”, Third International Biennial, Catalog, SITE Santa Fe, Artist Essay, 2000.
“Turn of the Century Woman”, Reflections Column, Native Artist Magazine, 2000.
“Of Heroes and Savages”, Native Artist Magazine, Fall 1999.
“American Indians are People, Not Mascots”, Between Two Rivers Column, Indian Artist Magazine, Winter 1999.
“Coyote is Awake Again”, Between Two Rivers Column, Indian Artist Magazine, Summer 1998.
“Indian Identity”, Between Two Rivers Column, Indian Artist Magazine, Spring 1998.
“Meeting Sherman Alexie”, Indian Artist Magazine, Spring 1998.
“Battling Bureaucracy”, Indian Artist Magazine, Spring 1997.
“Juror’s Essay”, In Southwest 96, Catalog, New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, 1996.
“Meeting Shan Goshorn”, Indian Artist Magazine, Spring 1996.
“Challenging the Myth”, Indian Artist Magazine, Fall 1995.
“Stop Denigrating Indians with Worn Out Stereotypes”, Palm Beach Post, Nov. 1991.

· Books –

Stapleton, Dr. Bruce. Redskins: Racial Slur or Symbol of Success? Writers Club Press.
King, Richard C. and Springwood, Charles Fruehling. ed. Team Spirits: The Native American Mascot Controversy. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln & London.
Alexie, Sherman. ed. Ploughshares. Stories and Poems edited by. An Emerson College
Winter 2000. Cover art by Charlene Teters.
Rob, Mark Anthony. The American Indian and The Media. Chief Wahoo’s Free Ride. The National Conference for Community and Justice. 2000. Essay by Teters.
Spindel, Carol. Dancing At Halftime: Sports and the Controversy Over American Indian Mascots. New York University Press.
Broder, Patricia Janis. Earth Songs, Moon Dreams: Paintings by American Indian Women. Martin’s Press, New York. 1999.
Alexie, Sherman. The Man Who Loves Salmon. Limberlost Press. Cover Illustration by Charlene Teters
Hirshfelder, Arlene. Personal Accounts by American Indians, 1790 to the Present. New York: MACMILLION. 1995.

· On Artists: Articles –

Randall, Thompson Terri. “Sculpture Discourse”, Pasatiempo, The New Mexican, 26-Nov. 1, 2001.
Lawless, James. “Wohoo protesters see progress, plan demonstration”, The Plain Dealer. April 2, 2001, 2-B.
Indyke, Dottie. “Persona”, The New Mexican, March 10, 2001.
McDonald, Rob. “Mills decries lack of recognition”, The Spokesman Review, January 30, 2000, B-1.
Carlisle, Susanna. “I don’t understand what the be deal is. It was only an Indian”, Review, The Magazine, January/February, 2000.
Messec, Don. “Over the Edges, the Corners of Ghent”, Exhibition Catalogue, M.A.K., Museum of Contemporary Art, essay, June 30, 2000.
Lores, Maite. “EV+A 2000: Friends and Neighbors”, Contemporary Visual Arts, 2000, Issue 29.
Clemmer, David. “Site Santa Fe”, Art Nexus, November 1999-January 2000.
Mitchell, Charles Dee. “Report From Santa Fe: Places of the Art”, Art in America, December 1999.
Constable, Lesley. “Indians as Objects”, Pasatiempo, New Mexican, Nov 12, 1999, 24.
DellaFlora, Anthony. “Stereotypes and Culture Collide in Art Exhibition”, The Sunday Journal, Arts & Culture, November 7, 1999.
Lopez, Ruth. “Exploring ‘Place’ Can Be Tricky When the Place Is Someone Else’s”, The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, August 22, 1999.
Cross, Guy. “You’ve Got (Art) Mail”, The Magazine, July, 1999, 35.
Lopez, Ruth. “Less Is More”, Pasatiempo, The New Mexican, July 1, 1999, 14.
Humphrey, Kay. “PBS Shows Mascot Documentary”, Indian Country Today, July 21, 1997, A8.
Dingman, Tracy. “Turning Anger Into Action”, Albuquerque Journal, July 12, 1996, 1.
Reang, Putsata. “Fighting Racism, Native American artist brings vicious stereotypes to forefront”, Spokesman Review, February 29, 1996.
Coates, Ross and Lysohir, Marilyn. “Charlene Teters: Art on the Line”, High Ground ’96: Art Notes From the Plateau, 1996.
Canto, Minerva. “Artist Wants Others to Walk in Indians’ Shoes”, Albuquerque Journal-Journal North, February 1994.
Messec, Don. “It Was Only An Indian, Charlene Teters Exhibition”, Artwinds, Summer 1994.
Cross, Guy. “Universe of Charlene Teters”, The Magazine, April, 1994, vol. 11, no. 9.
Mithlo, Nancy. “Demonstrations of Culture, Charlene Teters: Rosa Parks of Campus Racism”, Crosswinds, March, 1994, vol. 6, no. 4.
Touchette, Charleen. “Brave Hearted Native American Woman Artists”, Signals Magazine, July/August,1993, vol. 2, no. 2.
Villani, John. “Teters, Munoz Open at CCA with Powerful Statements”, Pasatiempo, The New Mexican, August 27, 1993, 17.
Armitage, Diane. “Politics to Pictographs: Three Contemporary Indian Artists”, Artist of the Sun, 1993.

On Artist: Video Documentary

“Living Voices”, National Museum of the American Indian, radio series, 2001.
American Indian Forum on Racism in Sports and the Media, 2001.
ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Person of the Week, October 1997.
National PBS: POV, “In Whose Honor?”, American Documentary, July 15, 1997.
Rosenstein, Jay (Producer). “In Whose Honor?” –Champaign, Illinois: Smoking Munchkin Video, 1996.
Mendosa, Marie Kate (Producer). “False Traditions, False Idols”, New Mexico: KNME,1994.

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