Patricia Marroquin Norby
Born1970 (age 53–54)
Chicago, Illinois
NationalityAmerican
Alma materClarke University (BFA)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (MFA)
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (PhD)
OccupationCurator
Known forFirst associate curator of Native American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
SpouseNathan Norby

Patricia Marroquin Norby (born 1970) is the associate curator of Native American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1] On September 14, 2020, she became the first full-time person of Indigenous descent hired for a curatorial position in the museum's 150-year history.[2] Her heritage as a Purépecha and Apache woman has influenced her art since she was a young girl. She has worked for several museums and curated art of indigenous people, thoughtfully considering the lives of the artists and to faithfully present their art, breaking down past practices used by European Americans.

Background

Patricia Marroquin, born in 1970 in Chicago, Illinois.[3] She is of Purépecha[1][3][4] and Apache descent,[4][lower-alpha 1] having learned about Mexican Purépecha healing traditions from her great-grandmother Maria Jesus Torres, who used leaves, herbs, and animal fat.[4] Her heritage influences her interest in art. 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.[6]

Education and early career

Norby 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[4][6] and then had two internships at Washington, D.C. museums.[6] She created an exhibition of Native American works of art from the George Gustav Heye Center collections of the Smithsonian Institution and artifacts stored at the Library of Congress from the Bureau of Indian Affairs.[6]

In 2006, her work was exhibited in Art and Bus in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.[7] The same year, she used black ink and leaves to create "Family Medicine" and dried leaves in other works of art, which were 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 and jewelry made by Native Americans.[6]

Norby has a doctoral degree from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in American studies[8] with a specialization in Native American art history and visual culture.[1][9] She explored ways in which "European Americans have historically manipulated American Indian images to create a non-American Indian perspective"[10] and how modern nuclear power and industrial agriculture are reflected in fine art in her dissertation, "Visual Violence in the Land of Enchantment" of 2013.[11] Norby filmed interviews with Native Americans about their urban life experiences the film called "Powwow".[6]

Career

Norby was the director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago.[12] In 2016, she presented "Indians in the Archives: American Indian Art at the Newberry".[13]

She was an assistant professor of American Indian studies at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.[8] Norby served a short stint as senior executive and assistant director of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York.[14]

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.[11] In an interview for the article "A new voice at an old institution: Patricia Marroquin Norby," Norby states that cultural institutions in the United States are reviewing past practices regarding management and exhibition of Native American art and developing approaches that involve indigenous people and highlight Native American and Indigenous works of art.[11] She discussed "Affirming Indigenous Representation: The Future of Native Art and Collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art" online in March 2021.[11]

Norby is the first full-time curator of Native American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[11] She held an exhibit of "Ground in Clay", which reflect the handing down of design aesthetics and techniques over a century. Boiled bee plant, used for painting, blackens when fired. Water and sky are references in the design of birds, seedlings, clouds, and rain.[15]

By 2016, she was a member of the board of trustees for the Field Museum of Natural History.[16] As of November 2021, Norby is one of several indigenous board members of the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts. Others include 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).[17]

Publications

  • Norby, Patricia Marroquin. 2013. Visual Violence in the Land of Enchantment. Dissertation Abstracts International. 74–11. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2013.[9]
  • Norby, Patricia Marroquin. 2015. "The Red Sweater: Family, Intimacy, and Visual Self-Representations". American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 39 (4): 33–44.[18]
  • Scudeler, June, and Patricia Marroquin Norby. 2015. "Art, Aesthetics, and Indigenous Ways of Knowing". American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 39 (4): ix-xi.[19]
  • Norby, Patricia Marroquin. Forthcoming. Water, Bones, and Bombs: Three Artists and the Fight for Northern New Mexico. University of Nebraska Press.[20][21]

Notes

  1. ↑ Norby has also identified as being of "Purepéche (Tarascan)/Eastern Apache descent."[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 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.
  2. ↑ "Met Announces Patricia Marroquin Norby as First Full-Time Curator of Native American Art". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
  3. 1 2 "Badgering: Patricia Marroquin Norby MA'01, MFA'02". Wisconsin Alumni Association. University of Wisconsin. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Dowd, Andrew (2006-01-29). "Catching a dream". Leader-Telegram. p. 41. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  5. ↑ "Carol S. Gunderson, et al. v. Osseo-Fairchild School District; Osseo-Fairchild School Board" (PDF). Indian Mascots. State of Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. p. 8. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Dream/Artist's latest projects are films covering Osseo's history". Leader-Telegram. 2006-01-29. p. 42. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  7. ↑ "Traveling Show". Leader-Telegram. 2006-09-14. p. 16. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  8. 1 2 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.
  9. 1 2 Norby, Patricia Marroquin (2013). Visual Violence in the Land of Enchantment. OCLC 857404378.
  10. ↑ "Logo / Taunting at meetings alleged". Leader-Telegram. 2010-06-29. pp. A2. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 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.
  12. ↑ "The Abiqueños and the Artist: Rethinking Georgia O'Keeffe". College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia.
  13. ↑ "Indians in the Archives: American Indian Art at the Newberry". Chicago Tribune. 2016-03-03. pp. 1–8. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  14. ↑ Kim, Allen. "The Metropolitan Museum of Art has hired its first full-time Native American curator". CNN. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
  15. ↑ Abatemarco, Michael (2022-08-05). "Cochiti Kiua". The Santa Fe New Mexican. pp. Z38. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  16. ↑ In the field: the bulletin of the Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History. Winter–Spring 2016. pp. n1.
  17. ↑ "Southwestern Association for Indian Arts". The Santa Fe New Mexican. 2021-11-02. pp. A8. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  18. ↑ Norby, Patricia Marroquin (2015). The Red Sweater: Family, Intimacy, and Visual Self-Representations. pp. 33–44. OCLC 6025822561. Retrieved 14 October 2020. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  19. ↑ Scudeler, June; Norby, Patricia Marroquin (2015). Art, Aesthetics, and Indigenous Ways of Knowing. pp. ix–xi. OCLC 6025823397. Retrieved 14 October 2020. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  20. ↑ "Julie Pelletier Joins Newberry as Acting Director of McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies | Newberry". www.newberry.org. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
  21. ↑ "Patricia Marroquin Norby Named Associate Curator of Native American Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art". The Met Museum. Retrieved 14 October 2020.

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