Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha) oversees the American Wing’s Native American art collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An award-winning scholar and museum leader, she previously served as Senior Executive and Assistant Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian-New York and as Director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry in Chicago. Her forthcoming book, Water, Bones, and Bombs examines twentieth-century American Indian art and environmental disputes in northern New Mexico. She co-edited “Aesthetic Violence: Art and Indigenous Ways of Knowing,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal (2015). She earned her PhD at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

This event is a Student Brown Bag Lunch, a visiting lecture chosen and organized by the second-year MA students.

This event is open to BGC students, faculty, fellows, and staff. This event will be held via Zoom. A link will be circulated to registrants by 10 am on the day of the event.