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Published Writing

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​Nevada Toneega’a: Flowering Plants of Hungry Valley and Pyramid Lake, published by Nevada Museum of Art, 2026

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The Art of Judith Lowry, Nevada Museum of Art, exhibition essay, 2025

 

The Art of Ben Aleck, Nevada Museum of Art, exhibition essay, 2023

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Inherent Memory, exhibition essay, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM, April 2023

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The Famous Artist: Ben Aleck, Double Scoop, March 2023

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Intertwined: Basketry and Beyond, art catalog,  published by Lolmen Publications, Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Exhibits and Collections Center, 2021

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Thankfulness, Art and the View from Above, Nevada Humanities Heart to Heart, 2020

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When I Remember I See Red: American Indian Art and Activism In California, exhibition review, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, First American Art Magazine, Spring 2020

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ONE OF A KIND, The People and Places That Make Reno The Biggest Little City in the World, contributing essay, Book by Mark Curtis, 2019

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To Have and To Hold, contributing essay, art catalogue, Lilley Museum, University of Nevada, Reno, December 2018

 

Seven Directions, editorial, First American Art Magazine, Summer 2017

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Judith Lowry, Mountain Maidu – Pit River – Washoe Painter, artist profile, First American Art Magazine, Spring 2015

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Great Basin Native Artists Exhibit Work Regionally, editorial, Reno-Sparks Indian Colony Newsletter, October 2014

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Duck Decoys by Joey Allen and Endangered, exhibtion review, Sheppard Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno,  First American Art Magazine, Fall 2014

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Ben Aleck: Northern Paiute Painter and Draftsman, artist profile, First American Art Magazine, Spring 2014

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How Not to Write an Article on Native Artists: Advice to Journalist X, editorial, First American Art Magazine, Winter 2013

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California State Capitol Museum Contemporary Native Art, exhibition review, Sacramento, CA, First American Art Magazine, Fall 2013

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The Way We Live: American Indian Art of the Great Basin and the Sierra Nevada, exhibtion review, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, First American Art Magazine, Spring 2013

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2012 and before, publications on request

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MELISSA MELERO-MOOSE

Great Basin Native Artist

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 Melissa Melero-Moose

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