Indigo Gonzales Miller

Indigo Gonzales Miller (she/they) is an Afro-Indigenous (Southern Ute- not enrolled) & Two-Spirit artist, educator, and historian based in their hometown of Columbus, Ohio. Since graduating from The Ohio State University in 2017 with a BA in History of Art, their interdisciplinary arts-based practice specializes in global revolutionary print art history, totemic pedagogies within embodied archives, and alchemical ethnomusicology.

From April 2021 to March 2022, they were a featured artist and community custodian for Potu faitautusi: Faiāʻoga o gagana e, ia uluulumamau! at the Columbus Printed Arts Center. The Potu faitautusi reading room was a collection of global Indigenous printed media by Indigenous authors, scholars, and artists as an exploratory syllabus installed within an active community print studio to explore the importance of Indigenous Language. Following the closing of the reading room, they continued to collaborate with the CPAC as the Visiting Curator of Relational Learning and Community Engagement, from February to July 2022, through the facilitation of five socially engaged listening sessions with the theme of Black and Indigenous corporeality in Afro-Indigenous music and the epistemological concept of the scyborg from la paperson’s A Third University is Possible. Through the activation of Afro-Indigenous futuristic music, the Evocation Listening Sessions became a communal site for fellow QBIPOC arts educators to explore synesthetic sensory integration and narrative reclamation by free-associative mark-making.

From February to October 2022, they were the curatorial research assistant with Lucy I. Zimmerman for the Wexner Center for the Arts Artist Residency Award show Carlos Motta: Your Monsters, Our Idols, a cast member in the multi-channel sound installation The Columbus Assembly questioning what is at stake when changing a name such as Columbus, and contributed an alternative land acknowledgment, Listening as Acknowledgement, for the complimentary residency booklet. As of 2023, they continue to work with various art spaces through reoccurring artist visits and curatorial workshops at the Ohio State University, as a gallery educator for the Wexner Center for the Arts, and professional development consultant for the Columbus Museum of Art’s Indigeneity at CMA initiatives.