Join us to learn more about museum curation that is more inclusive of Tribal nations and Indigenous peoples.

Panelists: Mariah Berlanga-Shevchuk (Five Oaks Museum), Travis Stewart (Chachalu Museum), & Deana Dartt (Live Oak Consulting)

Speaker bios:

Travis Stewart is a contemporary artist and Curator at Chachalu Museum and Cultural Center. He is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and is of Chinook and Rogue River descent.

Dr. Deana Dartt, member of the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation, and is the founder of Live Oak Consulting in Eugene, Oregon, an organization committed to reshaping public narratives about Native people and assisting institutions in their efforts to be more accountable and responsive to Native communities. She served as Curator of Native American Ethnology at the Burke Museum and American Indian Studies faculty at the University of Washington from 2008-2011, and from 2011-2017 as the Curator of Native American Art at the Portland Art Museum.

Mariah Berlanga-Shevchuk (she/hers) is the Cultural Resources Manager at Five Oaks Museum in Washington County, OR, where she cares for the museum’s collection and archive of approximately 100,000 cultural heritage items. She also co-manages the guest curator program, which decentralizes the museum's authority in favor of community members to ensure the stories of the region are told authentically and equitably. As an educator and historian, she seeks to make museums sites of social action through being as responsive, inclusive, and accessible as possible.

Accommodations for disabilities may be made by contacting Luhui Whitebear at: luhui.whitebear@oregonstate.edu or 541-737-9036.

Sponsored by: College of Forestry; School of Language, Culture, and Society; School of Visual, Performing, and Design Arts; Kaku-Ixt Mana Ina Haws; The Valley Library; Office of Institutional Diversity