Michaela Rife

Michaela Rife is a postdoctoral fellow at the Michigan Society of Fellows and an assistant professor in the History of Art at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, where she teaches courses in American art and environmental art history. She is currently at work on her first book project, Dust Bowl Murals: Settler Colonialism, Environmental Crisis, and Public Art on the New Deal Plains.

Stories from this author

Watercolor image of mountain scene with a cloudless blue sky, trees and boulders in the foreground, and the artist’s stamp in the bottom left-hand corner.

Chiura Obata's American Landscape Art

Ernest Lawson's Gold Mining, Cripple Creek

Art Bites: Gold Mining, Cripple Creek