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The Curator’s Circle featuring Gerald McMaster
January 14, 2021 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Free
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian chief curator Andrea R. Hanley (Navajo) will lead a virtual discussion with exhibition artist Gerald McMaster on his art practice and respective work in our current exhibition, Laughter and Resilience: Humor in Native American Art.
Gerald McMaster – curator, artist, author, and professor – is Tier 1 Canada Research of Indigenous Visual Culture and Curatorial Practice and director of the Wapatah: Centre for Indigenous Visual Knowledge at OCAD University.
Dr. McMaster has over 30 years of international work and expertise in contemporary art, critical theory, museology and indigenous aesthetics, working at such institutions as the Art Gallery of Ontario, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, and the Canadian Museum of Civilization. His experience as an artist and curator in art and ethnology museums researching and collecting art as well as producing exhibitions has given him a thorough understanding of transnational Indigenous visual knowledge and curatorial practice.
Learn more and register at: https://wheelwright.org/event/curators-circle-gerald-mcmaster-register/