Biography
Megan (Chain) Driving Hawk has exhibited throughout the U.S. and internationally. Her work is part of the permanent collection at Northlight Gallery in Arizona and has been reviewed in Jackalope Ranch, ASU News, Tempe Republic, The State Press, Phoenix New Times, and the Navajo-Hopi Observer. She has been invited as guest lecturer, workshop facilitator, and panelist for various events at Arizona State University and the Phoenix Indian Center. In 2011, she traveled abroad and completed the Art Intersection artist residency in Italy. In 2016, she worked as an assistant muralist for the Community Roots Mural at Take Root Cafe in Kirksville, Missouri. In 2017, Driving Hawk worked on separate artist-led participatory projects and public art pieces with Luna City2175, The Green Thumb Project, Take Root Cafe, and Park River Toolkit.
M. Driving Hawk grew up in the suburban and country areas outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a specialization in Photography and a minor in Women and Gender Studies from Arizona State University in 2010. In 2014, she earned a Master of Secondary Education and Teacher Certification in Art K-12 from Arizona State University. On a long-term residency from 2016-2018 she lived in Kirksville, Missouri where she taught art and attended a low-residency graduate program at the University of Hartford. In 2018, she earned a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies. She is an Artist/Mother & Educator currently living in Phoenix, Arizona where she teaches high school traditional photography. She serves as the campus Indigenous Student and Youth Equity Stewardship Advisors.
M. Driving Hawk grew up in the suburban and country areas outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a specialization in Photography and a minor in Women and Gender Studies from Arizona State University in 2010. In 2014, she earned a Master of Secondary Education and Teacher Certification in Art K-12 from Arizona State University. On a long-term residency from 2016-2018 she lived in Kirksville, Missouri where she taught art and attended a low-residency graduate program at the University of Hartford. In 2018, she earned a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies. She is an Artist/Mother & Educator currently living in Phoenix, Arizona where she teaches high school traditional photography. She serves as the campus Indigenous Student and Youth Equity Stewardship Advisors.
Artist Statement Brief
I ask questions and seek connections to the Divine, my ancestors, my husband’s ancestors, my family, my communities, and my environments through the practices of photography, poetry, and various forms of traditional needlework. I challenge historical, cultural, familial, and personal expectations of myself as I continuously navigate my positionality as a white wife and mother to Lakȟóta men. Additionally, I contemplate the delicate weavings of life, death, decay, hope, light, darkness, and what gets left behind in the transition into motherhood and postpartum. I am curious about how one person's expression of life and self-discovery connect to another and how different basic human life experiences are from one another. After spending a childhood of blocking out life, I now want to be present to feel and savor where I am in the world as I heal generational and childhood wounds.
Statement of Artistic Philosophy
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Education
2016-2018 Master of Fine Arts, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
2013-2014 Master of Secondary Education and Teaching Certification, Art, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
2006-2010 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
· Minor, Women and Gender Studies
Continued Education
2018-present Youth Equity Stewardship Training
2018 Indian Education Stakeholders Summit
2016 ASU Recharge Conference: Empowering Native Youth
2016 safeTALK Certified: Suicide Prevention
2016 Mixed Media Meet Up: A Visual Journey; Seminar with Carol Panaro-Smith
2012- 2015 Mixed Media Meet Up: Core; Seminar with Carol Panaro-Smith
2012 Albumen Printing; Two-day workshop with Martha Casanave
2011-2012 Taking Your Work to the Next Level; Seminar with Carol Panaro-Smith and James Hajicek
2011 Art Intersection: Italy 2011; Nine-day workshop with Carol Panaro-Smith, Julie Hampton and James Hajicek
2010 Beyond Print: Creative Communication in the Digital Age; Seminar with Mary Virginia Swanson
2010 Understanding and Collecting Historic Photographs; Workshop with Jeremy Rowe
2009 Introduction to Palladium Printing; Two-day workshop with Dick Arentz
Relevant Professional Experience
2018-present Fine Art Photography Teacher, Perry High School
2018-present Indigenous Student & Youth Equity Stewardship Advisor, Perry High School
2017-2018 Artist, Green Thumb Project
2016-2018 Art & Exploratory Teacher, Faith Lutheran
2016-2018 Fine Arts Intern, Take Root Café
2015-2016 Native American Counselor & Club Advisor, Perry High School
2014-2016 Art Teacher and CTE Instructor, Perry High School
2013-2014 Student Teacher, Hamilton High School
2012-2013 Assistant Teacher, Great Hearts Academy
2012-2013 Fine Arts Teacher Intern, Great Hearts Academy
2011-2012 Gallery Coordinator, Art Intersection
Community and Installation Work
2018 Original Inhabitants,PRTK: Park River Tool Kit
Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut
2018 Connecting Currents: A Celebration Of Our Rivers
Hartford Art School, Hartford Connecticut
2018 The Green Thumb Project
Kirksville R-III Community Learning Garden, Kirksville, Missouri
2017-18 Kirksville Community Quilt
Take Root Café, Kirksville, Missouri
2017 Luna City Ecosystems, Luna City 2175 (Emerge)
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
2016-17 Community Roots Mural
Take Root Café, Kirksville, Missouri
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Cultural Confluence: Weaving memory of the past, mindfulness of the present, and meditations on the future (Part III)
Take Root Café, Kirksville, Missouri
2017 Cultural Confluence: Weaving memory of the past, mindfulness of the present, and meditations on the future (Part I): 1 egg, warm: zúŋtA wičhóuŋ
Take Root Café, Kirksville, Missouri
2009 Desert Exploration 1
The Art Café, ASU, Tempe, Arizona
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020. Hear Us Roar!, An Exhibition exploring the experience of being a woman
RoaringArtistGallery.com
2020 Home-Works, Spilt Milk Members' Show
Spilt Milk Gallery, Online
2020 Everything is Different Now
Stay Home Gallery & Residency, Pairs, Tennessee
2020 Togethering
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas
2020 The Sky We See, part III
Color Tag Magazine, Online
2020. The Quarant-Times, vol IV
The Quarant-Times, Online
2020 Colors of Quarentine, part I
Color Tag Magazine, Online
2020. The 2020 Self-Quarentining Exhibition
Lenscratch, Online
2018 Cultural Confluence: Weaving memory of the past, mindfulness of the present, and meditations on the future (Part IV): Thesis Exhibition
Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Connecticut
2018 Who Will You Be In Luna City?ASU Emerge, Luna City 2175
ASU Galvin Playhouse, Tempe, Arizona
2018 Cultural Confluence: Weaving memory of the past, mindfulness of the present, and meditations on the future (Part II)
Koubek Center, Miami, Florida
2017 The Mildred Archeology, Contributor, Researcher, Curator
The Mildred Complex(ity), Narrowsburg, New York
2017 Sharp Art
Working Library, Portland Oregon
2016 Animalia, Juried by Traer Scott
PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont
2012 No Strangers: The Art Intersection Creative Community
Art Intersection, Gilbert, Arizona
2012 ASU Photographers’ Association Silent Auction
First Studio Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
2012 Confluence of theUncanny and Mundane, Juried by Andrea Modica
Northlight Gallery, Tempe, Arizona
2011 New Eyes on Ancient Ways: Contemporary Navajo Story Telling
The Olney Gallery at Trinity Cathedral, Phoenix, Arizona
2011 www.visualcorrespondence.com
Step Gallery, ASU, Tempe, Arizona
2010 Smudge Match 2010: a book and printmaking show
Harry Wood Gallery, ASU, Tempe, Arizona
2010 Dine Bikeyah: Familiar Views, Foreign Eyes
Step Gallery, ASU, Tempe, Arizona
2010 Homage to James Hajicek
Northlight Gallery, ASU, Tempe, Arizona
2010 Twofold
Step Gallery, ASU, Tempe, Arizona
2010 Salad Days: a bfa photographic exhibition
Gallery 100, ASU, Tempe Arizona
2010 An Equation of the Fanciful and Bizarre,Juried by Joel Meyerowitz
Northlight Gallery, ASU, Tempe Arizona
2009 ASU Photographers’ Association Silent Auction
First Studio Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
2008 You Are My Only Hope, Juried by Darius Himes
Northlight Gallery, ASU, Tempe, Arizona
2007 A Photographic Exhibition
Studio Tad, Phoenix, Arizona
Online Features
The Sky We See, Color Tag Magazine
Stay Home Gallery, Week 10 Holding On
Milked Magazine #MilkingTheQuarantine
Spilt Milk Gallery #HomeWorkResidency
Vol. 4 The Quarant-Times
Colors of Quarentine, Color Tag Magazine
Permanent Collections
Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Reviews/Publications/Etc
Home-Works Zine. Artist / Mothers in Quarantine. 2020. pg 7.
Stay Home, A Curatorial Study of Women Practicing Social Distancing in Consideration of Feminism and Domesticity During A Time Of Staying Home. 2020. Sect., Holding On.
Color Tag Magazine. Spring 2020. pg 37
ASU Creates Interactive Moon Colony Exhibit. FOX 10. March 15, 2018.
http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/asu-creates-interactive-moon-colony-exhibit
ASU Group Creates Moon Colony Experience for Audience. KTAR News. March 13, 2018.
http://ktar.com/story/1987286/asu-emerge-creates-moon-colony-expereience-audience/
Quilt to sew together Heartland History. KTVO.July 29, 2017.
http://ktvo.com/news/local/quilt-to-sew-together-heartland-history
Correspond Visually. 365 Ideas. Jackalope Ranch. February 21, 2011. http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/jackalope/2011/02/correspond_visually.php
Photography exhibit looks at digital communication. ASU News [Business, Culture and Affairs].February 15, 2011. http://asunews.asu.edu/20110215_photography_exhibit
ASU student’s photo exhibit features Navajos’ traditions.Tempe Republic. The Arizona Republic. September 17, 2010. pg 4. http://www.azcentral.com/community/tempe/articles/2010/09/16/20100916asu-students-photo-exhibit-reservation-life.html.
Native Art: Student photo exhibit documents Navajo life. The State Press. September 15, 2010. front page.
With Reservation: Navajo Nation hosts student photographers. Phoenix New Times. Volume 41, number 36. September 9-15, 2010. pg 34.
ASU students document life on the Navajo Reservation.Navajo-Hopi Observer. September 14, 2010.http://www.navajohopiobserver.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=12865&SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&S=1.
Photography majors experience life on Navajo reservation.ASU News [Business, Culture and Affairs]. September 9, 2010. http://asunews.asu.edu/20100908_Navajophotos.
Photography exhibit points lens at Navajo Nation. ASU News [Business, Culture and Affairs]. August 24, 2010. http://asunews.asu.edu/20100824_photographyexhibit.
Dine Bikeyah: Familiar views, Foreign Eyes, photo gallery, ASU News [Business, Culture and Affairs]. August 24, 2010. http://asunews.asu.edu/20100908_gallery_dinebikeyah#2.
The Cart Before the Horse, Arizona State University Photographers’ Association Member Portfolio.2009. pg 17-20.
Lectures/Workshops/Panels
2018 Listen Up! Youth Equity Stewardship Culminating Event
2016 Phoenix Indian Center, Youth Leadership Day
2012 Cyanotype Workshop. Scottsdale, Arizona
2010 Lecture and Panel Discussion: Review of 47th National SPE Conference. College of Design North. Tempe, Arizona.
2010 Cyanotype Workshop. Tempe, Arizona.
Grants, Honors, and Awards
2016-18 Academic Scholarship, School of Art, University of Hartford
2014 Outstanding Teacher Candidate Achievement Award Nomination
2009-10 Photographers’ Association at ASU, President
2010 Herberger Institute, Photography Department, SPE Scholarship
2009 Herberger Institute Undergraduate Award- BA
2008-09 Photographers’ Association at ASU, Secretary
2007-08 Photographers’ Association, Mini Event Coordinator
2006-10 Deans list
2006-10 National Society for Collegiate Scholars
Professional Affiliations
Spilt Milk Gallery
Society for Photographic Education
Arizona Education Association
2016-2018 Master of Fine Arts, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
2013-2014 Master of Secondary Education and Teaching Certification, Art, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
2006-2010 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
· Minor, Women and Gender Studies
Continued Education
2018-present Youth Equity Stewardship Training
2018 Indian Education Stakeholders Summit
2016 ASU Recharge Conference: Empowering Native Youth
2016 safeTALK Certified: Suicide Prevention
2016 Mixed Media Meet Up: A Visual Journey; Seminar with Carol Panaro-Smith
2012- 2015 Mixed Media Meet Up: Core; Seminar with Carol Panaro-Smith
2012 Albumen Printing; Two-day workshop with Martha Casanave
2011-2012 Taking Your Work to the Next Level; Seminar with Carol Panaro-Smith and James Hajicek
2011 Art Intersection: Italy 2011; Nine-day workshop with Carol Panaro-Smith, Julie Hampton and James Hajicek
2010 Beyond Print: Creative Communication in the Digital Age; Seminar with Mary Virginia Swanson
2010 Understanding and Collecting Historic Photographs; Workshop with Jeremy Rowe
2009 Introduction to Palladium Printing; Two-day workshop with Dick Arentz
Relevant Professional Experience
2018-present Fine Art Photography Teacher, Perry High School
2018-present Indigenous Student & Youth Equity Stewardship Advisor, Perry High School
2017-2018 Artist, Green Thumb Project
2016-2018 Art & Exploratory Teacher, Faith Lutheran
2016-2018 Fine Arts Intern, Take Root Café
2015-2016 Native American Counselor & Club Advisor, Perry High School
2014-2016 Art Teacher and CTE Instructor, Perry High School
2013-2014 Student Teacher, Hamilton High School
2012-2013 Assistant Teacher, Great Hearts Academy
2012-2013 Fine Arts Teacher Intern, Great Hearts Academy
2011-2012 Gallery Coordinator, Art Intersection
Community and Installation Work
2018 Original Inhabitants,PRTK: Park River Tool Kit
Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut
2018 Connecting Currents: A Celebration Of Our Rivers
Hartford Art School, Hartford Connecticut
2018 The Green Thumb Project
Kirksville R-III Community Learning Garden, Kirksville, Missouri
2017-18 Kirksville Community Quilt
Take Root Café, Kirksville, Missouri
2017 Luna City Ecosystems, Luna City 2175 (Emerge)
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
2016-17 Community Roots Mural
Take Root Café, Kirksville, Missouri
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Cultural Confluence: Weaving memory of the past, mindfulness of the present, and meditations on the future (Part III)
Take Root Café, Kirksville, Missouri
2017 Cultural Confluence: Weaving memory of the past, mindfulness of the present, and meditations on the future (Part I): 1 egg, warm: zúŋtA wičhóuŋ
Take Root Café, Kirksville, Missouri
2009 Desert Exploration 1
The Art Café, ASU, Tempe, Arizona
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020. Hear Us Roar!, An Exhibition exploring the experience of being a woman
RoaringArtistGallery.com
2020 Home-Works, Spilt Milk Members' Show
Spilt Milk Gallery, Online
2020 Everything is Different Now
Stay Home Gallery & Residency, Pairs, Tennessee
2020 Togethering
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas
2020 The Sky We See, part III
Color Tag Magazine, Online
2020. The Quarant-Times, vol IV
The Quarant-Times, Online
2020 Colors of Quarentine, part I
Color Tag Magazine, Online
2020. The 2020 Self-Quarentining Exhibition
Lenscratch, Online
2018 Cultural Confluence: Weaving memory of the past, mindfulness of the present, and meditations on the future (Part IV): Thesis Exhibition
Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Connecticut
2018 Who Will You Be In Luna City?ASU Emerge, Luna City 2175
ASU Galvin Playhouse, Tempe, Arizona
2018 Cultural Confluence: Weaving memory of the past, mindfulness of the present, and meditations on the future (Part II)
Koubek Center, Miami, Florida
2017 The Mildred Archeology, Contributor, Researcher, Curator
The Mildred Complex(ity), Narrowsburg, New York
2017 Sharp Art
Working Library, Portland Oregon
2016 Animalia, Juried by Traer Scott
PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont
2012 No Strangers: The Art Intersection Creative Community
Art Intersection, Gilbert, Arizona
2012 ASU Photographers’ Association Silent Auction
First Studio Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
2012 Confluence of theUncanny and Mundane, Juried by Andrea Modica
Northlight Gallery, Tempe, Arizona
2011 New Eyes on Ancient Ways: Contemporary Navajo Story Telling
The Olney Gallery at Trinity Cathedral, Phoenix, Arizona
2011 www.visualcorrespondence.com
Step Gallery, ASU, Tempe, Arizona
2010 Smudge Match 2010: a book and printmaking show
Harry Wood Gallery, ASU, Tempe, Arizona
2010 Dine Bikeyah: Familiar Views, Foreign Eyes
Step Gallery, ASU, Tempe, Arizona
2010 Homage to James Hajicek
Northlight Gallery, ASU, Tempe, Arizona
2010 Twofold
Step Gallery, ASU, Tempe, Arizona
2010 Salad Days: a bfa photographic exhibition
Gallery 100, ASU, Tempe Arizona
2010 An Equation of the Fanciful and Bizarre,Juried by Joel Meyerowitz
Northlight Gallery, ASU, Tempe Arizona
2009 ASU Photographers’ Association Silent Auction
First Studio Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
2008 You Are My Only Hope, Juried by Darius Himes
Northlight Gallery, ASU, Tempe, Arizona
2007 A Photographic Exhibition
Studio Tad, Phoenix, Arizona
Online Features
The Sky We See, Color Tag Magazine
Stay Home Gallery, Week 10 Holding On
Milked Magazine #MilkingTheQuarantine
Spilt Milk Gallery #HomeWorkResidency
Vol. 4 The Quarant-Times
Colors of Quarentine, Color Tag Magazine
Permanent Collections
Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
Reviews/Publications/Etc
Home-Works Zine. Artist / Mothers in Quarantine. 2020. pg 7.
Stay Home, A Curatorial Study of Women Practicing Social Distancing in Consideration of Feminism and Domesticity During A Time Of Staying Home. 2020. Sect., Holding On.
Color Tag Magazine. Spring 2020. pg 37
ASU Creates Interactive Moon Colony Exhibit. FOX 10. March 15, 2018.
http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/asu-creates-interactive-moon-colony-exhibit
ASU Group Creates Moon Colony Experience for Audience. KTAR News. March 13, 2018.
http://ktar.com/story/1987286/asu-emerge-creates-moon-colony-expereience-audience/
Quilt to sew together Heartland History. KTVO.July 29, 2017.
http://ktvo.com/news/local/quilt-to-sew-together-heartland-history
Correspond Visually. 365 Ideas. Jackalope Ranch. February 21, 2011. http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/jackalope/2011/02/correspond_visually.php
Photography exhibit looks at digital communication. ASU News [Business, Culture and Affairs].February 15, 2011. http://asunews.asu.edu/20110215_photography_exhibit
ASU student’s photo exhibit features Navajos’ traditions.Tempe Republic. The Arizona Republic. September 17, 2010. pg 4. http://www.azcentral.com/community/tempe/articles/2010/09/16/20100916asu-students-photo-exhibit-reservation-life.html.
Native Art: Student photo exhibit documents Navajo life. The State Press. September 15, 2010. front page.
With Reservation: Navajo Nation hosts student photographers. Phoenix New Times. Volume 41, number 36. September 9-15, 2010. pg 34.
ASU students document life on the Navajo Reservation.Navajo-Hopi Observer. September 14, 2010.http://www.navajohopiobserver.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=12865&SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&S=1.
Photography majors experience life on Navajo reservation.ASU News [Business, Culture and Affairs]. September 9, 2010. http://asunews.asu.edu/20100908_Navajophotos.
Photography exhibit points lens at Navajo Nation. ASU News [Business, Culture and Affairs]. August 24, 2010. http://asunews.asu.edu/20100824_photographyexhibit.
Dine Bikeyah: Familiar views, Foreign Eyes, photo gallery, ASU News [Business, Culture and Affairs]. August 24, 2010. http://asunews.asu.edu/20100908_gallery_dinebikeyah#2.
The Cart Before the Horse, Arizona State University Photographers’ Association Member Portfolio.2009. pg 17-20.
Lectures/Workshops/Panels
2018 Listen Up! Youth Equity Stewardship Culminating Event
2016 Phoenix Indian Center, Youth Leadership Day
2012 Cyanotype Workshop. Scottsdale, Arizona
2010 Lecture and Panel Discussion: Review of 47th National SPE Conference. College of Design North. Tempe, Arizona.
2010 Cyanotype Workshop. Tempe, Arizona.
Grants, Honors, and Awards
2016-18 Academic Scholarship, School of Art, University of Hartford
2014 Outstanding Teacher Candidate Achievement Award Nomination
2009-10 Photographers’ Association at ASU, President
2010 Herberger Institute, Photography Department, SPE Scholarship
2009 Herberger Institute Undergraduate Award- BA
2008-09 Photographers’ Association at ASU, Secretary
2007-08 Photographers’ Association, Mini Event Coordinator
2006-10 Deans list
2006-10 National Society for Collegiate Scholars
Professional Affiliations
Spilt Milk Gallery
Society for Photographic Education
Arizona Education Association