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]

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]

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