About me

Kendra Greendeer, Ph.D., a citizen of the Ho-Chunk Nation and descendant of the Red Cliff and Fond du Lac Bands of Lake Superior Ojibwe, is the Ihlenfeld Curator of Collaborative and Community Exhibitions at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her research and curatorial projects examine the work of contemporary Native American women artists who employ rematriation as a method, Indigenous museum practices, and the relationships between land and materiality. Dr. Greendeer received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, her M.A. in Art and Museum Studies from Georgetown University in Washington, District of Columbia, and her B.F.A. in Museum Studies from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Kendra has curated and assisted with numerous exhibitions and community-based projects centered on Indigenous art and history, including Homelands: Mnë’nának, Māēnāēwah, Tešišik at the Milwaukee Art Museum; Native New York at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York; and the Prairie Interpretive Project at the Henry Vilas Zoo.