America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) is an arts writer, visual artist, independent curator, and publishing editor of First American Art Magazine. She is a winner of a 2025 Rabkin Prize. You can read her full bio here. 

We invited America to have a conversation about her work. The interview is accompanied by a newly commissioned portrait of America in the backyard space where she sometimes writes, alongside her dogs, Terin and Rosie.

The interview has been gently edited for length and clarity. 

Mentioned in this episode:

• Southeastern Indian Artists Association

• The Coe Center

• Cherokee Heritage Center, Park Hill, Okla.

• Center for the American Indian, (1978), Oklahoma City, Okla.

• Institute of American Indian Arts

• William S. Yellow Robe, Jr.

• Artist T.C. Cannon

• Artist Kelly Church

• Artist Teri Greeves

• Right After by Eva Hesse

• Composer John Cage

• Artist Robert Rauschenberg

• Shingle Springs Rancheria, Calif.

• Illiterate Digest by Will Rogers (A&C Boni, 1924)

• Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing by and about Indigenous Peoples by Gregory Younging (Brush Education, 2025)

• Track Changes: A Handbook for Art Criticism Edited by Mira Dayal and Josephine Heston (n+1, Literary Hub, and Burnaway, 2023)

This episode of the Rabkin Interviews was produced by the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation, an artist-endowed foundation based in Portland, Maine. The interview was conducted by Mary Louise Schumacher, a journalist and the executive director of the Rabkin Foundation. The portraits were made by artist-photographer Kevin J. Miyazaki. The production team for the Rabkin Interviews also includes Cindy Eggert Johnson, producer; Johnathon Olsen, editor; with research and copyediting by Katie Avila Loughmiller and Karen Samelson. Music is by Flint, HaHaHa, Just for Kicks, and Jim Swim. The Rabkin Prize is awarded through a nomination process, and an independent jury selects the winners.