Welcome back to another episode of All My Relations. We love you all so much and

are so glad you've come to listen and learn with us again. So today we're

talking to three badass indigenous women in the art museum world and we

wanted to have this conversation to build off of our artist conversations from

the last two episodes. We got the artist perspective from our amazing guests in

the last few episodes but there's another important piece to the art world

where historically a lot of gatekeeping but also a lot of amazing things have

happened and that is museums. So I'm someone who studied indigenous

contemporary art as an undergrad and I spent my campus job and summers

interning in museums and trying to learn how to transform curatorial practices

and museum spaces to be more welcoming and representative of native cultures.

And I'm definitely someone who still loves curating and I've curated two small

exhibits of brown and I think there's like a ton of potential to create needed

dialogue and educate through museum spaces but I also realize that we have a

long way to go on a lot of ways. Today we have three different perspectives of

the museum world. We have Miss Jamie Powell who's Osage and the first indigenous

curator at the Hidden Museum at Dartmouth. Kristen Dorsey, a Chick-a-Saw fine arts

jeweler and metal worker artist who is transitioning her career to become a

curator. I don't know if that's public yet. And we also have Jacqueline Russell,

a citizen of the Navajo Nation who recently transitioned away from the

herd and is getting to an entirely new work and arts practice that we're

excited to hear about today. So I just want to say welcome relatives, sisters,

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