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Jolene Rickard, photographer and educator, will be visiting artist with the University of Minnesota's Department of Art on February 8, 9, and 10. She will present a public lecture on her work Wednesday, February 9 at 1:45 p.m. in the West Bank Union Auditorium, located on the lower concourse of Willey Hall. Her lecture/presentation is free and open to the general public.

Rickard is from the Tuscarora Nation in Sanborn, New York. She is committed to Indigenous people, arts advocacy, and academic expansion. As a photographer and a scholar, the main emphasis of Rickard's analysis is based on the photograph as a site of interconnected "gazes." Taking Gerald Vizenor's notion of "simulated Indians" and Rayna Green's "Pocahontas Perplex" as an intellectual platform, she argues the issues of misrepresentation.

Rickard is currently assistant professor in the departments of Art and Art History at the State University of New York in Buffalo. She received her BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology; her M.A. from the University of Buffalo; and her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Buffalo. Courses she has recently developed include "The Body Politic: Art, Technology and the Body," and "Intermedia: Photo/Digital Installations". Her exhibition record includes "Friends of Photography,' Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, California; "Native Nations," Barbican Art Center, London, England; "Reservation X," Canadian Museum of Civilization, Quebec; and "Red River Crossing," The Swiss Institute, New York City.

Rickard has given artists presentations for the Canadian Art Association, the Native American Art Association, the Ostego Institute for Native American Art History, and the College Art Association. She has been visiting artist at the San Francisco Art Institute, Cranbrook Institute for the Arts, New York University American Photography Institute, and the Boston Photographic Resource Center.