Phoebe Farris (also published as Pheobe Farris-Dufrene) is an

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, author, editor, artist, academic'','' photographer, free lance arts critic, and curator. Farris received

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and National Endowment of the Humanities grants and was named a Rockefeller Scholar in Residence. She was a resident at

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’s Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue and at the Women’s Leadership Institute at

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, she earned an international reputation in the field of

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. She identifies as a Powhatan-Renape/

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. She taught at

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for 22 years, and is now a

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. The Phoebe Farris papers are held in the Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections. She has regularly authored articles in ''

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''. Farris received a bachelor's degree in fine arts from the City University of New York, a master's degree in art therapy from Pratt Institute and a doctorate in art education from the University of Maryland. Farris has exhibited her documentary photography all over the world and curated traveling exhibits, including Visual Power: 21st Century Native American Artists/Intellectuals for the US Department of State. Since the 1980's, the subjects of her work have focused on documentation of contemporary Native American culture east of the Mississippi River and in the Caribbean.

Published work

* Art Therapy And Psychotherapy: Blending Two Therapeutic Approaches * Voices of Color: Art and Society in the Americas * Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas * Mentors of Diversity

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Farris, Phoebe Art therapists Mills College faculty Purdue University faculty Powhatan-Renape Nation people Women's studies academics Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Native American artists 21st-century Native American writers American women art educators Phoebe Farris is the Contributing Arts Editor for Cultural Survival Quarterly. A recent article,"Selene Phillips' Flambeau Seasons" is in Vol.42 Issue 3, September 2018.
Farris is also a free lance writer for the National Museum of the American magazine. Their Vol.20 No.1, Spring 2019 issue features her article," Virginia's Pivotal Year: Four Centuries of American Evolution".
Phoebe Farris's photography and her 2015 essay, "Arts and Activism: Defining Homeland" can be found in the catalog for the international exhibition, "The Map is Not the Territory:Parallel Paths-Palestinians, Native Americans, Irish".