Patricia Marroquin Norby (born 1970) is an American associate curator of Native American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1] On September 14, 2020, she became the first full-time curator of Native American art at the museum.[2]
Patricia Marroquin Norby | |
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| Born | Patricia Marroquin 1970 (age 53–54) |
| Alma mater | Clarke University (BFA) University of Wisconsin-Madison (MFA) University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (PhD) |
| Occupation | Curator |
| Known for | First associate curator of Native American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Spouse | Nathan Norby |
Background
editPatricia Marroquin, born in 1970 in Chicago, Illinois.[3] She is of Purépecha[1][3][4] and Apache descent which she suppressed throughout her childhood and she did not embrace until her college years.[4] She learned about Mexican Purépecha healing traditions from her great-grandmother Maria Jesus Torres, who used leaves, herbs, and animal fat.[4] Her great-grandparents moved from Mexico to Chicago in the 1930s.[4] She is married to Nathan Norby, a veterinarian.[4] Norby moved to Washington, D.C. in 2002.[5]
Education and early career
editNorby graduated from Clarke University in Dubuque, Iowa, with a Bachelor's degree in fine arts. She earned her Master's of Fine Art from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in printmaking, photography, and video in 2002 and then had two internships at Washington, D.C. museums.[4][5] She created an exhibition of Native American works of art including works from the George Gustav Heye Center collections of the Smithsonian Institution and Bureau of Indian Affairs artifacts stored at the Library of Congress.[5]
In 2006, her work was exhibited in Art and Bus in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.[6] The same year she used black ink and leaves to create "Family Medicine" and other artwork which was published in a Chicana and Chicano art magazine.[4] By 2006, she opened a business called Native Roots that sold organic foods made with values of indigenous people as well as jewelry made by Native Americans.[5]
Norby has a doctoral degree from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in American studies[7] with a specialization in Native American art history and visual culture.[1][8] Her scholarship explored ways in which "European Americans have historically manipulated American Indian images to create a non-American Indian perspective."[9] Her 2013 dissertation, "Visual Violence in the Land of Enchantment," addressed how modern nuclear power and industrial agriculture are reflected in fine art.[10] Norby filmed interviews with Native Americans about their urban life experiences in a film called "Powwow".[5]
Career
editNorby was the director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago.[when?][11] In 2016, she presented "Indians in the Archives: American Indian Art at the Newberry".[12]
She was an assistant professor of American Indian studies at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire.[when?][7] Norby served a short stint as senior executive and assistant director of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York.[when?][13]
Norby explored the value of including Native American artists and communities in cultural institutions in the United States in "Museums Pivot: Shifting Paradigms for Collaboration" at the Indian Arts Research Centers' program, where she was keynote speaker, in 2021.[10] In an interview she noted that cultural institutions in the United States are reviewing past practices regarding management and exhibition of Native American art, developing approaches that involve indigenous people and highlight Native American and Indigenous artworks.[10]
Norby is the first full-time curator of Native American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[10] She created an exhibit called "Ground in Clay", which reflects the handing down of design aesthetics and techniques over a century.[14]
By 2016, she was a member of the board of trustees for the Field Museum of Natural History.[15] She is one of several indigenous board members of the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts along with board chair L. Stephanie Poston (Sandia Pueblo), and board members Walter Lamar (Blackfeet Tribe), Russell Sanchez (San Ildefonso Pueblo), and JoAnn Chase (Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara).[16]
Publications
edit- Norby, Patricia Marroquin. 2013. Visual Violence in the Land of Enchantment. Dissertation Abstracts International. 74–11. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2013.[8]
- Norby, Patricia Marroquin. 2015. "The Red Sweater: Family, Intimacy, and Visual Self-Representations". American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 39 (4): 33–44.[17]
- Scudeler, June, and Patricia Marroquin Norby. 2015. "Art, Aesthetics, and Indigenous Ways of Knowing". American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 39 (4): ix-xi.[18]
- Norby, Patricia Marroquin. Forthcoming. Water, Bones, and Bombs: Three Artists and the Fight for Northern New Mexico. University of Nebraska Press.[19][20]
References
edit- ^ a b c Greenberger, Alex (2020-09-08). "Met Hires Patricia Marroquin Norby as Its First Full-Time Native American Art Curator, Signaling 'Significant Evolution'". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
- ^ "Met Announces Patricia Marroquin Norby as First Full-Time Curator of Native American Art". www.artforum.com. 9 September 2020. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
- ^ a b "Badgering: Patricia Marroquin Norby MA'01, MFA'02". Wisconsin Alumni Association. University of Wisconsin. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g Dowd, Andrew (2006-01-29). "Catching a dream". Leader-Telegram. p. 41. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
- ^ a b c d e "Dream/Artist's latest projects are films covering Osseo's history". Leader-Telegram. 2006-01-29. p. 42. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
- ^ "Traveling Show". Leader-Telegram. 2006-09-14. p. 16. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
- ^ a b Bahr, Sarah (2020-09-09). "The Met Hires Its First Full-Time Native American Curator". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
- ^ a b Norby, Patricia Marroquin (2013). Visual Violence in the Land of Enchantment. OCLC 857404378.
- ^ "Logo / Taunting at meetings alleged". Leader-Telegram. 2010-06-29. pp. A2. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
- ^ a b c d Abatemarco, Michael (2021-03-26). "A new voice at an old institution: Patricia Marroquin Norby". The Santa Fe New Mexican. pp. Z14. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
- ^ "The Abiqueños and the Artist: Rethinking Georgia O'Keeffe". College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia.
- ^ "Indians in the Archives: American Indian Art at the Newberry". Chicago Tribune. 2016-03-03. pp. 1–8. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
- ^ Kim, Allen (10 September 2020). "The Metropolitan Museum of Art has hired its first full-time Native American curator". CNN. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
- ^ Abatemarco, Michael (2022-08-05). "Cochiti Kiua". The Santa Fe New Mexican. pp. Z38. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
- ^ In the field: the bulletin of the Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History. Winter–Spring 2016. pp. n1.
- ^ "Southwestern Association for Indian Arts". The Santa Fe New Mexican. 2021-11-02. pp. A8. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
- ^ Norby, Patricia Marroquin (2015). "The Red Sweater: Family, Intimacy, and Visual Self-Representations". American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 39 (4): 33–44. doi:10.17953/AICRJ.39.4.NORBY. OCLC 6025822561. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- ^ Scudeler, June; Norby, Patricia Marroquin (2015). "Art, Aesthetics, and Indigenous Ways of Knowing". American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 39 (4): ix–xi. doi:10.17953/AICRJ.39.4.SCUDELER.NORBY. OCLC 6025823397. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- ^ "Julie Pelletier Joins Newberry as Acting Director of McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies | Newberry". www.newberry.org. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- ^ "Patricia Marroquin Norby Named Associate Curator of Native American Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art". The Met Museum. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
Further reading
edit- Norby, Patricia Marroquin; Martinez, Matthew (3 November 2022). "Revisiting 'O'Keeffe Country'". The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
External links
edit- Patricia Marroquin Norby and Samantha Friedman, comment on Georgia O'Keeffe, Untitled (Patio Door), 1946, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
- Patricia Marroquin Norby, comment on Georgia O’Keeffe, Eagle Claw and Bean Necklace, 1934, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)