 Richard
Glazer-Danay (Mohawk) graduated from California State
University, Northridge in 1970, receiving is MA in
1972 from California State University, Chico, and an
MFA in 1978 from the University of California, Davis.
He has
been an ironworker, a member of the U.S. Army Reserves,
and a consultant for the U.S. Office of Education, Office
of
Indian Education, U.S. Forest Service, Civil Rights compliance,
and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Glazer-Danay
is a member of the National Indian Education Association,
College Art Association, Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Education
Committee, and the board of directors for Educational
Opportunity Center, Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin. He has
been a lecturer
and conference/panel participant on curriculum, art,
and opportunity issues; instructor/coordinator, American
Indian
Studies, California State University, Chico; instructor,
Native American studies and acting director, C. N. Gorman
Museum, University of California, Davis; coordinator,
American-Intercultural Programs/American Indian Studies,
University of Wisconsin,
Green Bay; California State University, Long Beach; commissioner,
Indian Arts and Crafts Board, U.S. Department of the
Interior. “Richard
Glazer Danay comes from a dual heritage in that he is a Mohawk
from the Caughnawaga Reserve near Montreal, and Jewish. His
art is derived from both "Pop" and postmodernist
art movements, and he employs a wry and ironic sense of humor
in his interpretation of Indian themes and the status of
women in modern American life. He is both a painter and a
sculptor who can combine these media in the same work. In
the words of University of California/Riverside Professor
of Art, William Bradshaw, Glazer Danay can create "constructions
of outstanding boldness and power. The work is bright, witty,
satirical, and very strong in form and content." In
a word, he is unique: no one is doing work quite like
his. Glazer Danay is influential in the American art
world for
his art as well as for his role as a prominent educator
and as a member of the U.S. Department of the Interior
Indian
Arts and Crafts Board.”
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