Patricia Marroquin 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]

Patricia Marroquin Norby
Born1970
Galena, Illinois
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Minnesota, Twin Cities (PhD)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (MFA)
OccupationCurator
Known forFirst associate curator of Native American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Background

Patricia Marroquin was born in 1970 in Galena, Illinois. Norby has identified as being of "Purepéche (Tarascan)/Eastern Apache descent."[3]

Education

Norby has a doctoral degree from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in American studies[4] with a specialization in Native American art history and visual culture.[1][5] She has an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in printmaking and photography.

Career

Norby most recently served a short stint as senior executive and assistant director of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York.[6] Prior to this she was the director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry library in Chicago.[7] She was also an assistant professor of American Indian studies at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.[4]

Publications
  • Norby, Patricia Marroquin. 2013. Visual Violence in the Land of Enchantment. Dissertation Abstracts International. 74–11. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2013.[5]
  • Norby, Patricia Marroquin. 2015. "The Red Sweater: Family, Intimacy, and Visual Self-Representations". American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 39 (4): 33–44.[8]
  • Scudeler, June, and Patricia Marroquin Norby. 2015. "Art, Aesthetics, and Indigenous Ways of Knowing". American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 39 (4): ix-xi.[9]
  • Norby, Patricia Marroquin. Forthcoming. Water, Bones, and Bombs: Three Artists and the Fight for Northern New Mexico. University of Nebraska Press.[10][11]

References
  1. 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. "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.
  4. 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.
  5. Norby, Patricia Marroquin (2013). Visual Violence in the Land of Enchantment. OCLC 857404378.
  6. Kim, Allen. "The Metropolitan Museum of Art has hired its first full-time Native American curator". CNN. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
  7. 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. ISSN 0161-6463.
  8. Norby, Patricia Marroquin (2015). "The Red Sweater: Family, Intimacy, and Visual Self-Representations". American Indian Culture and Research Journal. pp. 33–44. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
  9. Scudeler, June; Norby, Patricia Marroquin (2015). "Art, Aesthetics, and Indigenous Ways of Knowing". American Indian Culture and Research Journal. pp. ix–xi. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
  10. "Julie Pelletier Joins Newberry as Acting Director of McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies | Newberry". www.newberry.org. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
  11. "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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