Image Credit: Dwayne Manuel – https://www.dwaynemanuel.com/
Welcome!
Dr. Gavin A. Healey holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in American Indian Studies from the University of Arizona and is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Applied Indigenous Studies at Northern Arizona University. His expertise in community-based participatory research and mixed method design aspires to provide agency to individual and community voices with a focus on Native public art, graffiti, and muralism.
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Landis Bahe – IG: @landisbahe 
Gavin’s expertise in community-based participatory and mixed methods research has contributed to interdisciplinary discourses using comparative Indigenous and western theoretical applications with contemporary Native art and Native public art as dialectics of place-making. Coupled with university duties, Gavin has spent his career working with Native artists and communities, urban and reservation, as an artist assistant on public murals, curator of museum and gallery exhibitions, and a conscientious ally in community well-being.
His doctoral research produced the first empirical data collected on Native public art through public surveying now included in the Heard Museum archives. Gavin has also worked on Native Nation-Building community-driven projects with the University of Arizona, Harvard University Native American Program, and continues this work with the Tribal Leadership Initiative in the Office of Native American Initiatives at Northern Arizona University.
Selected Work
