Saturday, Nov 11, 2023
Visiting Curator: Sháńdíín Brown
About
Join us at 4pm on Saturday, November 11, for a special engagement at the H.L. Ferguson Museum with curator and creative Sháńdíín Brown, the first Henry Luce Curatorial Fellow for Native American Art at the RISD Museum.
Brown will share insights her work and practice as a curator and discuss her current exhibition Diné Textiles: Nizhónígo Hadadít’eh, on view at the RISD Museum in the Angelo Donghia Costume and Textiles Gallery from September 2, 2023 - September 29, 2024.
Following the talk, a community dinner will be held at Union Chapel, at 6pm. Please RSVP through Eventbrite to let us know you plan to come.
Artist
Bio
Sháńdíín Brown is a curator, creative, and citizen of the Navajo Nation from Arizona. She is the first Henry Luce Curatorial Fellow for Native American Art at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum. She co-curated Being and Believing in the Natural World: Perspectives from the Ancient Mediterranean, Asia, and Indigenous North America (2022–2023) as well as Take Care (2022–2023). Brown’s newest exhibition, Diné Textiles: Nizhónígo Hadadít’eh (2023–2024), explores the intersections of Diné apparel design, weaving, and womanhood.
Brown’s research interests include Indigenous fashion, jewelry, art and feminism. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College, where she earned her BA in Anthropology as well as Native American Studies and minored in Environmental Studies. Previously she has held positions at the Heard Museum, Hood Museum of Art, Penn Museum, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) and School for Advanced Research (SAR) Indian Arts Research Center (IARC). Her jewelry can be viewed on Instagram @T.Begay.Designs