Panel Conversation | An Expanding Dialogue: How Do We Indigenize Museums?

Robert Cozzolino, independent curator, art historian, and critic based in Minneapolis; and the guest curator for Strange Narratives, Resilient Bodies

Clan Mother Shelley DePaul, Keeper of Language and Treaty Signer Liaison, Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania
Chief Adam Waterbear DePaul, Storykeeper and Director of Education, Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania

Jill Ahlberg Yohe, Curator at the Cafesjian Art Trust and former Associate Curator of Native American Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art

 

What does it mean to indigenize a museum's collection? Woodmere's current exhibition, Strange Narratives, Resilient Bodies, includes a wide range of artists from the collection and presents multiple explorations of identity and artists' emotional responses to history and daily life. In keeping with the theme of multiple perspectives, the panel will discuss prominent themes in the exhibition and the importance of integrating Indigenous perspectives with regard to American art.