Please join us Wednesday, May 19 at 1pm PST for a live stream Artist Talk between Associate Professor and Director of Native American and Indigenous Studies at Syracuse University, Dr. Scott Manning Stevens, Nellie Scott, Director of the Corita Art Center, and artist Teresa Baker. This public programming accompanies Teresa Baker's exhibition Pulling Up The Prairie at de boer on view through May 29, 2021. To register please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpcu2orj8jG9C6PJWvQ-zcfk5291ew9cB_ Teresa Baker is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes in Western, ND. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Interface Gallery, Oakland in 2019, and Gray Contemporary, Houston in 2018. She has exhibited widely in the San Francisco Bay area at venues such as Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, di Rosa, the Wattis Institute, Kiria Koula, Et al., and The Luggage Store Gallery. In 2016 she had her first solo museum show with the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX. She was the 2020 Native American Fellow for Visual Artists at the Ucross Foundation, Tournesol Award Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, 2013–2014 Artist-in-Residence at The MacDowell Colony, 2015. Baker received her MFA from California College of the Arts and her BA from Fordham University. Dr. Scott Manning Stevens is a citizen of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation, and holds a Ph.D. and master’s degree from Harvard University. A highly sought-after educator, Stevens has taught at a number of universities, including Harvard, Arizona State and SUNY Buffalo. He is the associate professor and Director of Native American and Indigenous Studies at Syracuse University. He was awarded a Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship at Brown University and held a number of fellowships at major archives. Stevens has lectured broadly throughout the United States and internationally. An avid researcher, Dr. Stevens’ primary areas of interest include diplomatic and cultural strategies of resistance among North American Indians in the face of European and American settler colonialism, as well as the political and aesthetic issues that surround museums and the indigenous cultures they put on display. Stevens is also preparing to publish a book-length research project titled “Indian Collectibles: Encounters, Appropriations, and Resistance in Native North.” Nellie Scott is an art historian and the director of the Corita Art Center, Hollywood, CA, and a member of the Coquille Indian Tribe. The Corita Art Center, a project of the Immaculate Heart Community, preserves and promotes Corita Kent’s art, teaching, and passion for social justice. Today, the Corita Art Center supports exhibition loans and public programs, oversees image and merchandising rights, sells Corita’s original prints, and serves as a resource of information about her life and work.