Katie Brewer Ball’s Unsettling Art Criticism: Alaska Native Art After 1960 will explore the emergence of the category of Native art in the state of Alaska as it has been shaped through colonial contact. Addressing Indigenous dispossession, recentering sovereign Indigenous politics, and highlighting contemporary “trans-customary” Alaska Native art and world-making practices, their book considers art writing as a potential site for the refusal of colonial logics.
Katie Brewer Ball writes creative nonfiction and is a scholar of performance and visual culture and associate professor of Theater and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University. They are the author of The Only Way Out: The Racial and Sexual Performance of Escape (Duke University Press, 2024) and their writing has appeared in ASAP/Journal, Room Magazine, Women & Performance, and WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly.