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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

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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

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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 

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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

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Alutiiq

Curator of North American Anthropology,

Burke Museum;

Professor of Anthropology,

University of Washington

Choctaw, Chickasaw Nation

Director, 

Curatorial Affairs,

First Americans Museum

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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

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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

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