I am a queer transdisciplinary curator, scholar, and writer based in New York City. I serve as the Curator of Native American Art at Montclair Art Museum in Montclair, New Jersey, as well as an independent curator amplifying the work, perspectives, and histories of Indigenous, women, queer, and trans North American artists and designers.

My museum practice focuses on historical, modern, and contemporary Native art and critical and collaborative museology through a lens of restorative justice. My research and publications examine visual and material culture of the Native Northwest Coast and Northeast as well as Indigenous and intercultural dress, fashion, and textile histories in the Americas. Themes in my research include material sovereignty, resurgence, colonialism, transcultural exchange, and the collection, circulation, and display of cultural objects and designs. I strive to activate museum collections through (re)connection with communities of origin and inspire critically engaged art audiences.

Recent Exhibition Projects

• Interwoven Power: Native Knowledge / Native Art
  Montclair Art Museum collection reinstallation | 2024 (ongoing)
  Curator
• Everyone Says I Look Like My Mother | Jaad Kuujus (Meghann O'Brien)
  Bard Graduate Center | 2024
  Textile Arts Center | 2024
  Collaborating Curator
• Meryl McMaster: Chronologies
  Montclair Art Museum | 2023
  Curator
• From My Home to Yours: Caroline Monnet and Laura Ortman
  Montclair Art Museum | 2022
  Hosting curator (premiered @ MOMENTA Biennale 2021)
• Color Riot! How Color Changed Navajo Textiles
  with durational performance by Eric-Paul Riege
  Montclair Art Museum | 2021
  Hosting curator (exhibition from the Heard Museum)
• A Woman Who Paints Tangkas | 2021
  "The Camera is Our Weapon": Kayapó Video Warriors in the Amazon | 2020
  Sanightaaq: Yupik Ceremonial Gut Parka | 2019
  American Museum of Natural History/Columbia University
  Editor and course discussant
• The Story Box: Franz Boas, George Hunt and the Making of Anthropology
  Bard Graduate Center | 2019
  Contributing researcher and writer
• Northwest Coast Hall Renovation
  American Museum of Natural History | 2017–2018
  Curatorial Associate

Selected Research & Publications

• Shinnecock Speaks | 2025: Shinnecock Design and Domesticity, Ledger Art Style
  
• Fashion in American Life | 2024:
  Sovereignty Every Day: Mobilizing Indigenous Fashion from the Northwest Coast
  Edited by Hazel Clark and Lauren Downing Peters.
  
• Arts, Special Issue: Arts of the Northwest Coast | 2024:
  Local Fabric: Mid-Century Modernisms, Textile and Fashion Design,
  and the Northwest Coast, 1940–1967
  
• Otsego Alumni Review, Otsego Institute for Native American Art History | 2023
  Belt Cup
  
• Fashioning Resurgence, special issue of Fashion Studies | 2022:
  Discussant—Land Based Fashion: A Leading Fashion Framework
  
• Museum Anthropology | Feb 14, 2022:
  Review of Incorporating Culture. Solen Roth. 2018.
  
• Journal of Folklore Research Reviews | Oct 8, 2021:
  Review of Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast
  Edited by Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse and Aldona Jonaitis. 2020.
  
• Hidden Stories/Human Lives: Proceedings of the
  Textile Society of America 17th Biennial Symposium | October 2020:
  An Uncommon Ammunition Case: Interpreting “Transitional” Textiles
  and Social Worlds in Nineteenth-Century Tlingit Alaska
• Bard Graduate Center exhibition – The Story Box | 2019:
  Whose "Cannibal" Masks?
  Fieldwork in Fort Rupert
  George Emmons
• Metropolitan Museum of Art | 2018:
  Turkey Vessel, 7th–10th c.
  Border Fragment, Figures with Staves, 4th–3rd c. B.C.

Selected Presentations

• Fashion in American Life Symposium and Book Launch, The New School | Nov 16, 2024:
  "Sovereignty Every Day: Mobilizing Indigenous Fashion from the Northwest Coast"
• Native American Art Studies Association Meeting | Oct 13, 2023
  (co-chaired with Alison Ariss):
  "The Everyday Politics of Northwest Coast Weaving"
• New Perspectives in Native American Art History; Univ. of Oklahoma | Nov 7, 2020:
  "Northwest Coast Native Idioms in Midcentury Modernisms: Tracking the Sea-Bear"
• Textile Society of America Symposium | Oct 17, 2020:
  "An Uncommon Ammunition Case: Interpreting 'Transitional' Textiles
  and Social Worlds in Nineteenth-Century Tlingit Alaska."
  » Winner, Founding Presidents Award
• Bard Graduate Center M.A. Symposium | Jun 12, 2020:
  "Fashioning the Northwest Coast: 200 Years of Indigenous Dress"
  » Winner of the Horowitz Foundation for the Arts Award
• Native American Art Studies Association Meeting | Oct 3, 2019 (with Meghann O'Brien):
  "'Ancient Couture' and the Northwest Coast"
• Conference of the Council for Museum Anthropology | Sep 20, 2019 (with Aaron Glass):
  "Reflections on The Story Box: Remediating Franz Boas in a (Meta)Collaborative Exhibition"