The Western Museums Association (WMA) is pleased to introduce this year’s WMA 2025 Keynote Speaker Kirsten Pai Buick, Ph.D., Professor of Art History, Department of Art and Chair of Africana Studies at the University of New Mexico!
At WMA’s 2025 Annual Meeting in Reno, Nevada attendees will have the unique opportunity to hear from Dr. Buick during the Opening General Session & Keynote taking place on Thursday, October 2 at 9am in the National Automobile Museum. The Opening General Session & Keynote is sponsored by MATT Construction.
About Kirsten Pai Buick, Ph.D.
Kirsten Pai Buick is Professor of Art History and Chair of Africana Studies at the University of New Mexico. She specializes in American art, focusing her research on African-American art, the impact of race and gender on the history of art, representations of the American landscape, and the history of women as patrons and collectors of the arts. Ultimately, teaching is her passion; and she tells her students that job #1 is surviving the damage, and job #2 is to never concede the center.
Buick received her Ph.D. in art history from the University of Michigan and was a Smithsonian American Art Museum Predoctoral Fellow and a Charles Gaius Bolin Fellow at Williams College. She is also a recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize for African American Art. Buick has published extensively on African-American art. Her book Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject was published by Duke University Press, and her second book, In Authenticity: ‘Kara Walker’ and the Eidetics of Racism, is currently in progress.
We look forward to welcoming you in Reno!
Download the WMA 2025 Preliminary Program
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