Dakota H. Stevens
Indigenous Art, Muralism
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
Education
M.A., Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, 2015
B.A., Anthropology and History, Augustana College, 2013
Research Interests
American and Native American art, Museum Curatorial Practice, Urban Indigeneity, Street Art, Reclamation of Urban Space, the Politics of Space, Muralism
Biography
Dakota Stevens is a PH.D. student focusing on Native American art. He received his Masters in Anthropology from the University of Oklahoma researching the incorporation of written language in art and the ways artists affect public perception through their work. Following graduation, he interned at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Brooklyn Museum working on exhibition development and repatriation projects. From 2017 to 2020 he worked at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in media curation, highlighting storytelling in the physical and digital museum spaces. He created exhibitions that examined the multiplicity of ways people experience tragedy. His current scholarly interests build upon the work he has done, expanding to the realm of street art and urban indigeneity, looking at Native American visual sovereignty, artists’ navigation of space, and community formation in urban settings.
Current Research Projects
Currently Dakota is beginning to work on his dissertation which will examine Indigenous authored murals, their relationships to space and place, and their existence as sovereign expressions. He is also working on developing a public digital archive to catalog and map Indigenous authored murals across Canada, Mexico, the United States and outlying territories.
Selected Publications
Swan, Daniel C. and Stevens, Dakota H. “Talking God and Father Peyote: Religious Pluralism and Contemporary Navajo Art.” Journal of Museum Studies, College of Liberal Studies, University of Oklahoma Vol. 8 (1). https://www.ou.edu/dam/cls/documents/CLS_JMS_Dec2014_web.pdf
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