her characters take up arms against widely accepted stereotypes about Native people

and shed new light on the extraordinary contributions of Native

these poems speak to the keen human yearning to connect as they urge engagement of the image

or should she follow her heart and the woman she loves

over the past thirty years

Red Skin Dreams: Twenty Years of Curating Indigenous Art at the Venice Biennale food her characters take up armsIn Red Skin Dreams curator and scholar Nancy Marie Mithlo (Fort Sill Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache Tribe) recounts the challenges of exhibiting Indigenous art at the famed Venice Biennale, the world's oldest and most recognized international arts exhibition. Mithlo's experience of organizing nine independently sponsored exhibitions in Italy from 1997 through 2017 reveals marginalization and breakthroughs in an ever shifting global art market.