America Meredith

America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) is the publishing editor of First American Art Magazine and an art writer, critic, visual artist, and independent curator whose community-based curatorial practice spans more than three decades. She earned her MFA degree from the San Francisco Art Institute and taught Native American art history at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe Community College, and Cherokee Humanities Course. Based in Norman, Oklahoma, Meredith serves on the advisory board of Native South journal and the acquisitions/collections committees of the Cherokee National Historical Society and First Americans Museum. In 2025, she won the Rabkin Award, and her work has appeared in Art in America, Crafts UK, American Indian Culture and Resource Journal, Santa Fe New Mexican, New Mexico Magazine, Native Foodways, Momus, Hyperallergic, and numerous catalogues.