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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. 

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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CV

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
                                    Endorsements: SEI, CTE, & Art K-12 
2006-2010          Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
                                    Minor: Women and Gender Studies
 
Selected Continued Education
2019-20                     Problem & Project Based Learning for STEAM 
2018-19                     Youth Equity Stewardship Training
2018                           Indian Education Stakeholders Summit 
2016                           ASU Recharge Conference: Empowering Native Youth 
2016                           safeTALK Certified: Suicide Prevention 
                                                Suicide prevention with an emphasis on the Native population 
2011                           Art Intersection: Italy 2011; Nine-day Creative Intensive Workshop 
 
Selected Professional Experience
2018-present             Fine Art Photography Teacher, Perry High School, AZ
2018-present             Indigenous Student Advisor, Perry High School, AZ
2020-present             Arizona State Seal of Arts Proficiency Mentor, Perry High School
2018-19                     Youth Equity Stewardship Advisor, Perry High School, AZ
2017-18                     Artist, Green Thumb Project, MO
2016-18                     Elementary Assistant Instructor, Faith Lutheran, MO
2016-18                     Art & Exploratory Teacher, Faith Lutheran, MO
2016-18                     Fine Arts Intern, Take Root Café, MO
2015-16                     Native American Counselor & Club Advisor, Perry High School, AZ
2014-16                     Art Teacher and CTE Instructor, Perry High School, AZ
2013-14                     Student Teacher, Hamilton High School, AZ
2012-13                     Assistant Teacher, Great Hearts Academy, AZ
2012-13                     Fine Arts Teacher Intern, Great Hearts Academy, AZ
2011-12                     Gallery Coordinator, Art Intersection, AZ
 
 
Selected Community & 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               Seeing Voices: Community (Un)Heard
                                    The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Carolina 
2020                Hear Us Roar, An Exhibition exploring the experience of being a woman
                                       Roaring Artist Gallery, Online 
2020               Home-Works, Spilt Milk Member’s Show 2020
                                      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 Quarantine, 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               Our Beautifully Diverse World
                                    Kirksville Arts Association, Kirksville, Missouri
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               First Annual Silent Auction
                                               Art Intersection, Gilbert, Arizona
2011               New Eyes on Ancient Ways: Contemporary Navajo Story Telling
                                               The Olney Gallery at Trinity Cathedral, Phoenix, Arizona
2011               ASU Photographers’ Association Silent Auction 
                                               First Studio Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
2011                www.visualcorrespondence.com
                                               Step Gallery, ASU, Tempe, Arizona
2010                Dine Bikeyah: Familiar Views, Foreign Eyes
                                               Office of Student Success, 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
                                               Deans Office, ASU, Tempe, Arizona
2010               Dine Bikeyah: Familiar Views, Foreign Eyes
                                               Step Gallery, ASU, Tempe, Arizona
2010               The After Show
                                               First Studio Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
2010               ASU Photographers’ Association Silent Auction 
                                               First Studio Gallery, Phoenix, 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
2007               Intro to….
                                                Step Gallery, ASU, Tempe, Arizona
2007               The Best of Photography I, Juried by James Hajicek 
                                                Art Building, ASU, Tempe, Arizona
2007               The Positive Space Show, Juried Exhibition
                                                Cantellops Art Gallery, LaRoche College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
 
Online Features & Publications
Twirl: A Decade of Artist Interviews 2020-2030
Carve Out Time for Art Instagram TakeOver 
Artist Parent Academic Instagram Takeover 
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 Quarantine, Color Tag Magazine
 
Permanent Collections
Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona   
Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut 


Selected Reviews/Publications/Etc
Creating Ceremony, Teaching Artist Podcast, 2020.
 
Home-Works. Artist-Mothers in Quarantine. Spilt Milk Gallery. 2020.
 
Spring 2020. Color Tag. 2020.
 
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
 
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.
 
 
Selected Lectures/Workshops/Panels
2020                 Artist/Mother Crit Group Artist Lecture
2018                 Listen Up! Youth Equity Stewardship Culminating Event 
2016                 Phoenix Indian Center, Youth Leadership Day
 
 
Selected Grants/Fellowships, Honors/Awards & Residencies
2020                  Seeing Voices Project Completion Grant 
2020                  Honorable Mention, Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Women Photographing Women
2019                  Problem & Project Based Learning STEAM Grant 
2017                  Emerge Grant Recipient
2016-18           Academic Scholarship, School of Art, University of Hartford 
2014                  Outstanding Teacher Candidate Achievement Award Nomination 
2010                  Herberger Institute, Photography Department, SPE Scholarship
2009                  Herberger Institute Undergraduate Award- BA
2006-10           Deans list
2006-10           National Society for Collegiate Scholars
 
 
Professional Affiliations
Spilt Milk Gallery 
Society for Photographic Education
Chandler Education Association 
Arizona Education Association 
National Education Association 
Arizona Indian Education Association 
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