Based in New York City, I am the Curator of Native American Art at the Montclair Art Museum, bridging historical, modern, and contemporary Indigenous art. My interdisciplinary background includes anthropology, design and design history, and the natural sciences.

I focus on the material and natural worlds of the Americas, particularly Indigenous and intercultural dress, fashion, and textiles. My curatorial approach is collaborative. I strive to activate museum collections through (re)connection with communities of origin and inspire critically engaged museum audiences.

My research is centered on the Native Northwest Coast and Alaska, addressing themes such as material sovereignty, resurgence, colonialism, and the collection, circulation, and display of cultural objects and designs.

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

• 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
• National Parks magazine | Spring 2020: A New View
  
• Bard Graduate Center exhibition – The Story Box | 2019:
  Whose "Cannibal" Masks?
  Fieldwork in Fort Rupert
  George Emmons
• National Parks magazine | Fall 2019: Exposed
• Metropolitan Museum of Art | 2018:
  Turkey Vessel, 7th–10th c.
  Border Fragment, Figures with Staves, 4th–3rd c. B.C.
• National Parks magazine | Summer 2015: The Price of a Feather

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"
• 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"