Get ready for the next installment of our Thursday evening programming, Parched: Speaker Series!

Join us on November 6, 2025, at 6pm S'ed̲av Va'aki Museum Community Room for a very special guest lecture featuring Dwayne Manuel, the artist behind  .

Dwayne Manuel began his life on the field lands of the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community. Since those beginnings, the main activity influence in his upbringing was his mother Alice Manuel, who was an O’odham basket weaver. Through childhood, adolescents and adulthood, it was the need for drawing that would continuously sketch an unfolding future in the arts for Dwayne Manuel. The year 2004 marks Dwayne’s ascension into his artistic journey through the trenches of academia. From 2004-2010, he attended the prestigious Institute of American Indian Arts (NM), where he obtained his bachelor’s in fine arts. After IAIA, Manuel decided to make like the Eagles and “take it to the limit one more time” by pursuing the challenge of a master’s degree in fine art. In 2011-2014, he attended the University Of Arizona School of Art where he would championly acquire his Master’s of Fine Art degree. Manuel now teaches painting and drawing at the Tohono O’odham Community College in Sells, Az and Phoenix, Az. In his professional art career, Dwayne has exhibited, collaborated and been commissioned by organizations such as The Heard Museum, Tucson Museum of Art, Tempe Center for the Arts, Nike and the Phoenix Suns.

In collaboration with Coconino Center for the Arts and Creative Flagstaff.