On April 3rd and 4th, 2025, the Department of Art History in collaboration with the Chazen Museum of Art and the Center for Design and Material Culture will host our third Centennial Event, Campus Art Museums as Learning Labs.
Please join us for a Art History Centennial panel discussion featuring Kendra Greendeer, Keely Orgeman, and Beth A. Zinsli, moderated by Berit Ness, Chief Engagement Officer, Chazen Museum of Art.
Kendra Greendeer examines Indigenous museum practices alongside land and materiality relations through an aesthetic emphasis on “rematriation,” an Indigenous women led initiative to return to a state of pre-settler colonial balance and relationship to those that allow for Indigenous livingness. Amember of the Ho-Chunk nation and descendant of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, Dr. Greendeer serves as the Ihlenfeld Curator of Collaborative and Community Exhibitions at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has assisted with numerous exhibitions and community-based projects centered on Indigenous art and history. Greendeer received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2023.
Keely Orgeman is the Seymour H. Knox, Jr., Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Yale University Art Gallery. She previously held other curatorial positions at Yale, beginning as a Marcia Brady Tucker Predoctoral Fellow in 2008. Orgeman graduated with a B.A. in Art History (with Honors) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003 and with a Ph.D. from Boston University in 2014.
Beth Zinsli is Curator of the Wriston Art Galleries, Assistant Professor of Art History, and Director of the Museum Studies Interdisciplinary Area at Lawrence University. Since 2013, she has overseen three gallery spaces and a collection of 6,000 objects, as well as the Teakwood Room, a historic room installed in Chapman Hall, and public sculptures around campus, including Otāēciah (Crane) (2021), designed by Oneida architect and artist Chris Cornelius. She received her PhD in Art History from UW-Madison in 2014.
