Nancy Marie Mithlo
Nancy Marie Mithlo is a Chiricahua Apache curator, writer and professor. Her exhibitions have been shown at the Venice Biennale. Mithlo has worked as the chair of American Indian Studies at the Autry National Center Institute and as a professor of gender studies and American Indian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author and editor of several books about Native Americans and indigenous art. Biography Mithlo is Chiricahua Apache, is enrolled in the Fort Sill Apache Tribe, and has family in Apache, Oklahoma. She was born in 1961 and grew up in Mississippi. Mithlo attended the Institute of American Indian Arts and earned her bachelor's degree from Appalachian State University in 1986, and her master's degree in anthropology from Stanford University in 1988. In 1993, she earned a doctorate in cultural anthropology from Stanford University. Work Mithlo has worked as the chair of American Indian Studies at the Autry National Center Institute. She has worked as a professor of gender studies and American Indian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Mithlo has helped curate and create nine exhibits at the Venice Biennale. Two exhibitions, "Air, Land, Seed" and "Octopus Dreams," were shown in