Curator Dr. Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha) is the first full-time curator of Native American Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in the museum’s 150-year history. An award-winning art scholar and museum leader, she previously served as Senior Executive and Assistant Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian–New York, and as Director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at The Newberry, Chicago.