Title: Directions

Artist: Mallery Quetawki

Tribal Affiliation: Zuni Pueblo

Year Completed: 2022

Medium: Spray paint and acrylic on wood panel

Dimensions (HxWxD): 20 in. diameter and 1 inch deep

Description/Inspiration:

This painting uses Zuni Pueblo symbolism to create a futuristic machine-like system where gears and circuits create a movement. This represents all Natives working at the intersections of STEM and Art (STEAM). Native American's have been gaining seats at the table in the areas of Science, Technology and Medicine and this painting is to honor that movement in sacred directions.

Artist Bio:

Mallery Quetawki is from the rural Pueblo of Zuni in western New Mexico. She is the mother of two and shares residence in both Albuquerque and Zuni Pueblo. She received her B.S. in Biology with a minor in Art studio in the summer of 2009 from UNM-ABQ. She is currently the Artist-in-Residence with the Community Environmental Health Program at the University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy. Mallery has used art to translate scientific ideas, health impacts and research on uranium mines that are currently undergoing study in several Indigenous communities. Her work has been featured on National Institutes of Health websites and published in peer-reviewed journals on environmental health and academic medicine. Her painting entitled, "Our Microflora" is on permanent display at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Biological Engineering. Mallery has a large-scale mural titled, "Morning Prayer", on permanent display at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center which depicts the history of the Zuni People from Creation to modern times. Her oil painting symbolizing the ties between the Grand Canyon and Zuni culture is part of a traveling collaboration called the Zuni Map Art Project. The collaborative set of art has been displayed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, NY and other museums and galleries in the US. Other noted works include a 12-piece pastel and ink set entitled "What Makes a Zuni?" on permanent display at the Zuni IHS in Blackrock, NM and a mural painted at the Ho'n A:wan Park in Zuni Pueblo September 2018. Mallery's recent work was part of an interactive Google Doodle that kicked off Native American Heritage Month on November 1, 2021.

Quetawki, Mallery. "Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Art as Scientific Translation for Native American Communities Affected by Abandoned Uranium Mines." Sustain. Spring/Summer
2019, 40: pp. 33-37.
Quetawki, Mallery. "Artist's Statement: DNA." Academic Medicine. January 2020, 95(1), 69.

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