Lectures, Conferences, Seminars, Institutes, and Workshops
5/1/2020
Curating Indigeneity: Identity, Presence & Narratives
American Association of Art Museum Curators, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Part of a panel discussing the challenges of curating Indigenous cultures. The other participants included America Meredith, Nancy Marie Mithlo, and Debra Yepa-Papan. The panel was organized and moderated by Tahnee Ahtoneharjo-Growingthunder.
12/5/2019
International Indigenous Arts Today: Engaging Parallel Art Worlds Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Public lecture analyzing trends in Indigenous participation at international venues, as part of the Indigenous Curation: Asserting Our Narratives lecture series
11/15/2019
21st Contemporary Art Biennial Videobrasil: Imagined Communities
Sesc, São Paulo, Brazil.
Participant in seminar titled “Resistance and the Image in the Production of the Indigenous World” with Ampam Karakras and Kamikia Kisêdjê.
5/29-31/2019
Tilting Axis 5: Beyond Trends: Decolonisation and Art Criticism
Mémorial ACTe, Guadeloupe
Co-organized conference on decolonizing art criticism. Chaired panel discussion with Dominique Brebion, Jocelyn Valton, Hrag Vartanian.
5/21/2019
Ethnic Fraud and American Indian Representation in Museums, New Orleans
Presentation on museum best practices at the American Alliance of Museums annual conference.
6/18-20/2018
Exploring Sustainability under the Midnight Sun
Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finland
Co-organized Res Artis conference on arts and tourism, which included organizing a panel on “Ethical Tourism and Indigenous Cultures.”
5/31-6/2 2018
Tilting Axis 4: Caribbean Cultural Ecologies: Connecting Pasts, Presents and Futures
Centro León and Centro Cultural de España, Dominican Republic
Co-organized conference on cultural practices in the Caribbean, hosted by Centro León and Centro Cultural de España and co-organized with the Pérez Art Museum Miami, National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, National Gallery of the Cayman Islands, Fresh Milk Art Platform, and Res Artis.
5/19/2018
Fraud and American Indian Representation in Museums
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Los Angeles
Presented lecture titled “What Shall We Do with the Bodies? Reconsidering the Archive in the Aftermath of Fraud,” which called for a re-assessment of Jimmie Durham’s archive.
5/18/2018
The Past, Present, and Future of International Indigenous Curatorial Practices
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Los Angeles
Organized panel on the state of international Indigenous curation. Panelists included heather ahtone, Miranda Belarde-Lewis, Migoto Eria, and Nancy Marie Mithlo.
4/28/2018
Zooetics
Art, Culture, and Technology Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Respondent for panel on “Creating Indigenous Futures,” in conference on addressing the Anthropocene, which included presentations by Courtney M. Leonard (Shinnecock), Jackson Polys (Tlingit), Kite (Oglala Lakota), and organized by Erin Genia ((Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate).
9/8/2017
Tai Ahiahi /// Tai Awatea: Curating Contemporary Maori Art
City Gallery Wellington, Welliongton, Aotearoa/New Zeland
Presented keynote lecture titled: “Curating Culture/Cultural Curating: Community and the Curation of Indigenous Arts” at conference assessing fifty years of Maori curating.
8/24-31/2017
Tears of Duk’WibahL Gathering of Pacific Rim Artists
Longhouse Education and Cultural Center, Olympia, Washington
Helped to organize an international gathering of 109 Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, First Nations, Maori and other Pacific Rim Indigenous artists.
5/18/2017
Tilting Axis 3: Curating the Caribbean
National Gallery of the Cayman Islands
Co-organized conference on curatorial practices in the Caribbean, which was co-organized with the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands, Perez Art Museum Miami, ARC Inc., Fresh Milk Art Platform, and Res Artis. Also chaired panel on “Curating the Archive,” which included Eddie Chambers (Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Texas, Austin), Tiffany Boyle (Curator and co-founder of Mother Tongue, Scotland) and Miguel A. Lopez (Chief curator of TEOR/éTica in San Jose, Costa Rica)
5/21/16
Taking It to the Next Level: Challenges and Promises of Internationalizing Indigenous Art
University of Hawai'i
Co-organized a two-panel session with Karen Kosasa as part of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association meeting.
2/19-21/16
Tilting Axis 2: Caribbean Strategies, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Florida.
Co-organized, along with Fresh Milk and the Pérez Art Museum, a conference considering the sustainability of the cultural ecosystem in the Caribbean
11/22/-23/15
Microresidence Forum 2015, Saitama, Japan.
Keynote speech at Saitama Triennale event on networking as an avant-garde practice.
11/18/15
Concerning Violence, Cinemapolis, Ithaca, NY.
Participated in panel discussion of Göran Hugo Olsson’s film on Frantz Fanon.
3/15/15
Contemporary Indigenous Art Practices:
A Conversation with Dana Claxton and Edgar Heap of Birds, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Moderated a discussion with Dana Claxton and Edgar Heap of Birds as part of the programming for “The Plains Indians: Artists of the Earth and Sky” exhibition.
2/27-28/15
Tilting Axis: Within and Beyond the Caribbean |
Shifting Models of Sustainability and Connectivity, Fresh Milk, Barbados.
Co-organized, along with Fresh Milk and the Pérez Art Museum, the first meeting of cultural sector representatives from across the Caribbean to negotiate strategic regional and international alliances.
1/31/15
Art and/as Cultural Diplomacy, Kyoto Art Center, Japan.
Keynote talk at the inaugural meeting of the Artist in Residency Network in Japan
7/10/14
Toward an Uncommon Wealth: Building Alliances in Opposition to Colonial Legacies.
David Dale Gallery, Glasgow
Moderated panel on contemporary cultural production within the British Commonwealth.
5/9/14
Asia-Australia-Europe Creative Residency Network, Melbourne, Australia
Co-
organized meeting to initialize cultural exchange network emphasizing access and reciprocity between Asia, Australia, and Europe.
11/10/13
Beyond Transnationalism: Considering the Limits of Transnationalism in International Cultural Exchanges, São Paulo, Brazil.
Paper presented at the 18th Videobrasil Festival.
10/17/13
From Patronage to Philanthropy: Preliminary Notes on Theorizing the Financial Support of Contemporary Indigenous Arts, Denver, Colorado.
Co-organized panel with Nancy Mithlo at Native American Art Studies Association meeting.
10/11/13
Networking Networks: Res Artis and Global Cultural Exchange, Boston, MA.
Presentation on the networks that constitute the international field of art residencies.
9/21/13
Indigenizing the Curriculum: MFA in Indigenous Arts, Olympia, WA.
Workshop on developing curriculum for new MFA at Evergreen State College.
2/20-23/2014
Juror for residency program at Artport Residency, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2013
2/15/13
Curating beyond Modernism: Indigenous Curation and Contemporary Art, College Art Association, New York.
Paper presented at College Art Association as part of panel titled “Engagements between Indigenous and Contemporary Art” chaired by Ian McLean.
10/26-28/2012
New Horizons for Creative Platforms, Tokyo, Japan
Co-organized bi-annual meeting of Res Artis international network of art residencies: [http://www.resartis2012tokyo.com/en/spekers/index.html]
9/20/2012
The Life and Death of Objects: Museums, Ethics, and Aesthetics.
Delivered the annual Ezra A. Hale Ethics Lecture at Rochester Institute of Technology.
5/2-5/
2012
Residencies: Gates and Bridges, Vienna, Austria
Co-organized conference on Eastern European Residencies with Kultur Kontakt.
4/3-7/2012
Assessment and Innovation in the Field of Art Residencies, Bellagio, Italy Co-organized conference on assessment methodologies with the Rockefeller Foundation and the Alliance of Artists Communities.
2/10/2012
Cultural Exchange International Grant, City of Los Angeles
Juror on selection panel for international cultural exchange awards.
3/14/2012
Historicizing Contemporary Indigenous Aesthetics
Public lecture at Arizona State University.
8/7/ 2011
Working Progress: The World of Art Residencies
Public Lecture at Shin Minatomura, BankArt, Yokohama Triennial, Japan.
7/24/2011
Traumatic Nostalgia: Themes in Contemporary Indigenous
Photography
Lecture at the Yamaguchi Institute for Contemporary Art, Yamaguchi, Japan.
5/5-7/2011
Essentially Indigenous? Contemporary Native Arts Symposium>
Co-organized with Kathleen Ash-Milby, a symposium on contemporary Indigenous arts at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American Indian in New York City.
11/16-20/09
Essential Aesthetics: An Exploration of Contemporary Indigenous Art and Identity, Santa Fe
Organized a seminar on essentialism and contemporary Indigenous art practices co-sponsored by the National Museum of the American Indian, the School for American Research, and the Insitute of American Indian Arts. Participants consisted of international Indigenous scholars and artists.
3/30/07
34th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Art History Society, Indianapolis
Co-chaired panel on globalization and presented paper titled
“Globalization and the Practices of Art History.”
9/15/06
Preserving our Pasts, Telling our Stories: Indians, Museums, and the
Management of History, University of Oregon.
Presented paper titled “Rethinking Dioramas: Considering the Production
of Space in Tribal Museums.”
10/28/2005
14th Native American Art Studies Association Conference,
Scottsdale, Arizona.
Organized panel titled “Museums, Nationalisms, and Representation.”
2/19/2004
Contemporary Northwest Native, First Nations, and Alaskan Native
Arts
College Art Association, Seattle.
Co-chaired panel with Marie Watt on professional development issues
for contemporary native artists.
11/5-8/2003
13th Native American Art Studies Association Conference, Salem,
Massachusetts
Respondent for panel titled "Indigenous Arts on a World Stage."
6/23 - 8/1, 2003
Working from Community: American Indian Art and Literature in a Historical and
Cultural Context, The Evergreen State College
Organizing committee and faculty for National Endowment for the Humanities
Summer Institute.
2002 - 2005
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"Within the Circle of the Rim": Nations Gathering on Common Ground.
Traveling exhibition featuring seventy-one artists from the Pacific
Rim.
7/6 - 9/2002
Indigenous Art and Heritage Conference, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand/Aotearoa.
Presented paper titled "Commodifying Native Objects/Legislating Native
Identity: The Essential Native Artist as Producer."
3/1 - 10/2002
Toi
Maori and Pataka Museum Festival, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa.
Lecturer and participant at various workshops and panels.
10/24 - 27/2001
12th Native American Art Studies Association Conference, Portland
Art Museum, Portland, Oregon. Chaired panel titled "The Image as Self:
Strategies for Self-representation."
6/26 - 30/2001
Return to the Swing, The Evergreen State College.
Assisted in the organization of an institute that brought together sixty-eight
native artists from the Pacific Rim. I also co-curated an exhibition
featuring the work of the participants.
2/28 - 3/3/2001
College Art Association, Chicago.
Co-chaired a panel with Jolene Rickard titled "The Native Artist as
Critical Historian: Aesthetics, Histories, and Nationalisms in a Colonial
World"
9/3 - 8/2000
Thirtieth International Congress of the History of Art, Comité
International d'Histoire de l'Art, London.
Presented paper titled "Testifying Bodies: Nationalisms, Aesthetics
and Contemporary Native American Art."
4/13 - 15/2000
Native American/First Nations Studies Conference, Boise State
University.
Delivered essay titled "Nationalisms and Aesthetics: Globalization and
Native American Art."
9/30 - 10/2/1999
Re-Imagining Multiculturalism, Monash University, Australia.
Presented essay titled "The Native as Artist: Nationalism, History,
and Aesthetics in a Colonial World."
6/27 - 7/30/1999
Getty Summer Institute, University of Rochester.
Assisted in organization of institute on Art History and Visual Studies.
6/28 - 7/31/1998
Getty Summer Institute, University of Rochester.
Assisted in organization of institute on Visual and Cultural Studies.
3/8/1998
33rd
Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium
Delivered essay titled "Mobile Borders - Stationary Bodies: Nationalism
and Images of the American Native."
2/27/1998
College Art Association, Toronto.
Presented paper titled "Why Warburg? Why Now? Troping Hybridity in/as
Cultural Studies."
8/5 - 9/1996
Territorialism and Desire, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis,
University of Amsterdam.
Co-chaired workshop with Mieke Bal as part of "Culture-Sign-Space" semiotics
conference. Presented paper "Writing the Space of the Subaltern: Testimonio
and 'Latin American' Literature."
4/12-13/1996
Can 'the Subaltern' Be Read? The Role of the Critic in Postcolonial
Studies, University of Frankfurt.
Presented paper titled "From Subaltern to Organic Intellectual: Re-(e)valuating
Rigoberta Menchú's Testimonio."
6/27-30/1995
The Practice of Cultural Analysis, Amsterdam School for Cultural
Analysis, University of Amsterdam.
Presented paper titled "Re(al)locating Intention: Negotiating Other
Translations in Art History."
4/7- 8/1995
Mining the Field / Filling the Blanks, Visual and Cultural Studies,
University of Rochester.
Delivered paper titled "(Dis)Covering the Pre-Columbian Past."
2/25/1995
Borders and Cultures International Conference, McGill University.
Moderator/respondent for "Borders and Film" panel.
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