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Indigenizing the (Art) Museum: This Month

Square bag with short rectangular flap decorated on one side with quillwork in a geometric design with human figures and edged with metal tubes (detail), Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Photograph by Dr. Gerald McMaster.

Please join Wapatah Centre for Indigenous Visual Knowledge and Onsite Gallery for April’s installment of the Indigenizing the (Art) Museum Virtual In-Conversation Series. Registration is open for all scheduled events on Eventbrite
 
APRIL PROGRAMMING 
Thursday, April 15th at 1:00PM (EDT) 
Gerald McMaster In Conversation with Annika Johnson, Associate Curator at the Joslyn Art Museum 
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Thursday, April 22nd at 1:00PM (EDT) 
Gerald McMaster In Conversation with Greg Hill, Senior Curator of Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada 
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Thursday, April 29th at 1:00PM (EDT) 
Gerald McMaster In Conversation with Jaimie Isaac, Curator of Indigenous and Contemporary Art, and Jocelyn Piirainen, Assistant Curator of Inuit Art, at the Winnipeg Art Gallery 
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LAST WEEK 
Thursday, April 1st at 1:00PM (EDT) 
Gerald McMaster In Conversation with Jill Ahlberg Yohe, Associate Curator of Native American Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art 
 
 “To Indigenize the art museum is to understand that everybody in each individual community has their own equally beautiful, equally complex, equally deep aesthetic system.” (Jill Ahlberg Yohe) 
 
Thank you to those who joined us for our first conversation of the series on and welcomed guest Jill Ahlberg Yohe to our community. Reflecting on their own curatorial expertise, Dr. McMaster and Dr. Ahlberg Yohe discussed the importance of mentorship and experience while engaging with Indigenous art at an institutional level. 
 
Recordings for each Indigenizing the (Art) Museum event will be shared on the Wapatah website. For more information, please visit wapatah.com . 
 
MAY - JUNE PROGRAMMING 
Thursday, May 6th at 1:00PM (EDT) 
Gerald McMaster In Conversation with Patricia Marroquin Norby, Associate Curator of Native American Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 
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Thursday, May 13th at 1:00PM (EDT) 
Gerald McMaster In Conversation with Kathleen Ash Milby, Curator of Native American Art at the Portland Art Museum 
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Thursday, May 20th at 1:00PM (EDT) 
Gerald McMaster In Conversation with John G. Hampton, Executive Director and CEO at the MacKenzie Art Gallery 
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Thursday, June 3rd at 1:00PM (EDT) 

Gerald McMaster In Conversation with Rhéanne Chartrand, Curator of Indigenous Art at the McMaster Museum of Art 
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Thursday, June 10th at 1:00PM (EDT) 
Gerald McMaster In Conversation with Tarah Hogue, Inaugural Curator of Indigenous Art at the Remai Modern 
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For more updates, visit wapatah.com/indigenizing-the-art-museum 
 
Wapatah and Onsite Gallery would like to extend our gratitude to OCAD University President Ana Serrano, the Research Office, and the Canada Council of the Arts for their generosity and continued support!