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Indigenous Arts of North America
New Perspectives on Native American Art
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This presentation focuses on the recent reinstallation of the Indigenous Arts of North America galleries of the Denver Art Museum. Discussion topics include new trends in curating Indigenous Arts. This includes an examination of key artworks that ground the exhibition spaces and the artists who made them as well as a review of how collaborating with community members produces ground-breaking installations. Dakota Hoska, Associate Curator of Native Arts at the Denver Art Museum presents the ways her team worked to dispel preconceived expectations for the creation and display of Native American artworks. She relates how today’s curators can make more room for Indigenous people in non-Native institutions and reviews artists whose work is contributing to broader national and international discussions.
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Dakota Hoska
Dakota Hoska (Oglála Lakȟóta Nation, Pine Ridge, Wounded Knee) is the Associate Curator of Native Arts at the Denver Art Museum. Previously, she served as a Curatorial Research Assistant at the Minneapolis Institute of Art supporting the ground-breaking exhibition “Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists.” Hoska completed her MA in Art History, focusing on Native American Art History, at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN (2019). She also completed two years of Dakhóta language at the University of Minnesota (2016) and received her BFA in Drawing and Painting from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2012).
Before going back to school for a career in the arts, Dakota had a long and successful career in marketing in a Business to Business capacity, but curatorial work and the arts are her true calling. As a curator of Indigenous Arts of North America, Hoska pursues her passions of working closely with her Native community while being continually surrounded by and learning about beautiful artwork. In her own art, Dakota makes connections between the personal and the universal. Through painting and monotype printmaking, Dakota explores her relationship to her Indigenous community. She works to capture singular moments of human interactions and the fleeting play of color and light, while reflecting on her own personal journey and philosophical viewpoints.
