Join us for a conversation between Dr. Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha), Associate Curator of Native American Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Margaret Jacobs, Director of the Center for Great Plains Studies. Norby, the first full-time curator of Native art in The Met’s 153-year history, will talk with Jacobs about her vital curatorial work that foregrounds Indigenous perspectives and experiences.

Light appetizers and refreshments will be served in the lobby of the Great Plains Art Museum just before the talk at 5 p.m.

The talk is part of the spring 2024 speaker series, “Centering Indigenous Voices in Museums.”

About the series:

Who decides how history is told, and what counts as art? For many years, museums have claimed the social authority to interpret history and culture. As institutions rooted in colonialism, museums largely have presented Eurocentric narratives and displayed art that misrepresented or erased Indigenous peoples. In recent years, Indigenous curators, artists, and community members have called for decolonizing museums.

This speaker series features Indigenous museum and cultural professionals who are working to change the narrative and elevate Native creative expression. This series is part of the “Walking in the Footsteps of our Ancestors: Re-Indigenizing Southeast Nebraska” project at the Center for Great Plains Studies, funded by the Mellon Foundation.

This talk is free and open to the public. It will be recorded and posted on our website later that week.