Michelle Lanteri Email & Phone Number

Michelle J. Lanteri, PhD, museum curator and arts writer, is committed to reciprocal, accountable collaborations through a local-to-global and active listening approach and a focus on Native American arts and cultures of the Southwest. Lanteri is the museum head curator and head of the arts and humanities department at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she supports artist and community gallery projects and collaborates with her colleagues in collections, archives, digital media, and museum education. She previously curated a series of New Mexico arts exhibitions and led the acquisitions program at the Millicent Rogers Museum as curator of collections and exhibitions, and she has co-curated exhibitions with the Couse-Sharp Historic Site, Institute of American Indian Arts, and the University Art Museum and University Museum at New Mexico State University. Lanteri earned her doctoral degree in Native American art history from The University of Oklahoma with an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation predoctoral fellowship that supported her dissertation, “Patterns of Renewal: Native Women Artists and the Northern New Mexico Exhibitionary Complex in the Twenty-First Century.” Her writing has been featured in First American Art Magazine, Southwest Contemporary, Museum Anthropology, VENUE: A Digital Journal of the Midwest Art History Society, and El Palacio: The Magazine of the Museum of New Mexico.

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