Encountering Cultural Knowledge in Exhibition Design: Creating With Native Partners

  • Saturday, September 28, 2024
  • 3:15 pm - 4:30 pm
  • Ventana - Salon K

Presenter(s): 

Phillip Cash Cash (Cayuse/Nez Perce), Linguist, Anthropologist, and Museum Advisor
Michael Holloman (Colville Confederated Tribes), Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Washington State University
Rebecca Dobkins, Curator of Native American Art, Hallie Ford Museum of Art

Moderator: 

Michelle Seiler, Assistant Director of Strategic Engagement, High Desert Museum

Track: 

  • Indigenous

Learning Format: Passive Learning

Rather than focusing on challenges, what happens when museums view collaborations with Native communities as creative opportunities that can drive innovation? This session will use the in-progress redesign of a permanent exhibition at the High Desert Museum as a case study to illustrate how a collaborative development process with Native communities can transform exhibition strategies. Project partners will demonstrate ways that meaningful dialogue can drive new ideas and how other insti - tutions can embrace this approach.