COMMUNITY FORUM
Speakers
This conference featured speakers who represented multiple perspectives involved in the process of transforming museum practices toward Indigenous methodologies and approaches, including artists, emerging museum professionals, and Indigenous curators and museum directors.
the Artists
Potawatomi
Artist: Ceramics, Textiles, works on paper
Blue Lodge Sky, Drawing, Jason Wesaw
Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi, Ottawa, Ojibwe
Black Ash Basketry Artist, Activist, Educator,
Culture Keeper
Sustaining Traditions — Digital Memories, 2018. Black ash, sweetgrass, rit, copper, vial EAB, flashdrive, 9 1/2 × 4 1/2 in. © 2018, Kelly Church
Shinnecock
Artist and Filmmaker
"Account", Mixed media ceramic and sand installation, 2017,
Courtney Leonard
Onondaga
Artist
"Buffalo Dance Study," 2016, Acrylic on canvas.
the Emerging Museum Professionals
Poarch Band of Creek Indians
Assistant Professor,
Cultural Anthropology,
University of Denver
Oglála LakÈŸóta Nation from Pine Ridge, Wounded Knee
Assistant Curator,
Native Arts,
Denver Art Museum
Osage Nation
Associate Director,
Curatorial Affairs &
Curator of Indigenous Art,
Hood Museum
the Senior Curators and Directors
Alutiiq
Curator of North American Anthropology,
Burke Museum;
Professor of Anthropology,
University of Washington
Choctaw, Chickasaw Nation
Director,
Curatorial Affairs,
First Americans Museum
Flandreau Santee Sioux Dakota
Executive Director,
Minnesota Museum of American Art
San Felipe Pueblo, Hopi, Tewa, Navajo
Director, National Museum of the American Indian
the Moderators
Cherokee Nation, White Earth Ojibwe
Rice Curatorial Fellow,
Native American Art,
Art Institute of Chicago
Moderator for Plenary I: the Artists
Gáuigú (Kiowa) Tribe and the Kingdom of Tonga
Artist, Curator, Scholar
Crystal Bridges Museum
Moderator for Plenary II: Emerging Museum Professionals
Oneida, Menominee
Executive Director,
Mitchell Museum of the
American Indian
Moderator for Plenary III: Senior Curators and Directors