Melanie Yazzie was born in Ganado, Arizona and she grew up on the Navajo Nation. She first studied art at the Westtown School in Pennsylvania. Then she earned a BA at Arizona State University in 1990 and an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1993. Melanie Yazzie works a wide range of media that include printmaking, painting, sculpting, and ceramics, along installation art. She is a professor of printmaking in the Department of Art and Art History at University of Colorado, Boulder. She considers the global impact in her work, striving to create safe, non-toxic methods of printmaking where toxic chemicals are commonly used.
As an artist, she works to serve as an agent of change by encouraging others to learn about social, cultural,
As an artist, she works to serve as an agent of change by encouraging others to learn about social, cultural,