Sharing History for the Future: A Convening with Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

Floor 3, Theater

Keynote Walter Annenberg Lecture: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Thursday, May 18
6:30–7:30 pm

For this program and on the occasion of Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith: Memory Map, Smith joins Adam Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director, for a conversation about her life and work.

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Sharing History for the Future: A Convening with Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Friday, May 19
11 am–8 pm

In celebration of Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith: Memory Map, a major retrospective surveying five decades of the groundbreaking artist’s work, this convening gathers an intergenerational group of Native American artists, curators, and scholars for conversations about the ongoing and overarching concerns in Smith’s work, including land, sovereignty, and Indigenous knowledge and identity. The program takes inspiration from Smith’s work as an artist and as an educator and curator by bringing together many communities that she has been in dialogue with throughout her career. 

11–11:30 am
Welcome
Adam Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation), artist and curator

Joe Baker (Delaware Tribe of Indians), artist, curator, co-founder and Director, Lenape Center

G. Peter Jemison (Seneca Nation, Heron Clan), artist and founding Director,  American Indian Community House Gallery

11:30 am–1 pm
Education
Lara Evans (Cherokee), Vice President, Programs, First Peoples Fund, and former Program Director, Institute of American Indian Arts Artist-in-Residence Program

Kendra Greendeer (Ho-Chunk), Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison; 2022–23 Paul Mellon Guest Predoctoral Fellow,  Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art; and Collections Manager, Little Eagle Arts Foundation

Alicia Harris (Assiniboine), Assistant Professor of Native American Art History, the University of Oklahoma

Lou Cornum (Diné/Bilagáana), Assistant Professor of Native American Studies, New York University

Moderator: Chelsea Herr (Choctaw), Jack and Maxine Zarrow Curator of Indigenous Art and Culture, Gilcrease Museum

1–2 pm
Lunch Break

2–3:30 pm
Curating
heather ahtone (Chickasaw), Senior Curator, First Americans Museum

Dorene Red Cloud (Oglala Sioux), Curator of Native American Art, Eiteljorg Museum 

Jeremy Dennis (Shinnecock), Lead Artist and President,  Ma’s House

G. Peter Jemison (Seneca Nation, Heron Clan), artist and founding Director,  American Indian Community House Gallery

Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha), Associate Curator of Native American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 

Moderator: Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish First Nation), Executive Director and Chief Curator, Forge Project 

3:30–4 pm
Coffee Break

4–5:30 pm
Aesthetics
Joe Baker (Lenape), artist, curator, co-founder and Director, Lenape Center

Andrea Carlson (Grand Portage Ojibwe), artist and co-founder, Center for Native Futures

Joe Feddersen (Okanagan/Sinixt), artist, writer, curator, consultant, and member of the Colville Confederated Tribal Arts & Humanities Board 

Chaz John (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska/Mississippi Band Choctaw/European), artist 

Jolene Rickard (Tuscarora), Cornell University, Associate Professor, artist, and former Director of American Indian & Indigenous Studies Program (AIISP) 

Marie Watt (Seneca), artist

Moderator: Laura Phipps, Assistant Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art

6–6:30 pm
Closing Reading
Natalie Diaz (Mojave), poet

Heid Erdrich (Ojibwe), poet

6:30–8 pm
Celebration