Category: Alumni Spotlight

Miranda Belarde-Lewis has dedicated her career to telling the stories of Indigenous communities and helping Native artists communicate the layers of meaning in their work to the public. Her work designing exhibits, researching pieces, and working with artists has allowed her to strengthen the interpretative strategies of tribal museums, as well as build relationships between museums and Native communities. Miranda’s career has been a series of breaking through glass ceilings to achieve her goals, from her start as a museum…

“How do you take something as complicated and multifaceted as a history of a people, a history of African Americans, and try and condense that down into exhibit narratives or public programs?,” Chieko Phillips asks me, with a curiosity and intensity that tells me she’s just as excited about pursuing this question as she ever was.  Her work in the museum field reflects her ability to share history in a way that you can relate to. Chieko graduated from the…