Saturday, February 4, 2023, 1 – 5 p.m. EST

Examine the work of photographers who are lending their voices to defining what it means to be Indigenous today. Photojournalists Donovan Quintero (Navajo), Tailyr Irvine (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes), and Russel Albert Daniels (Diné descent and Ho-Chunk descent)—whose works are featured in the museum’s Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field exhibition in New York—discuss their personal journeys.

The event will be livestreamed at AmericanIndian.si.edu/livestream.

To attend in person, register here.

Program:

1:00 p.m.: Welcome/Opening Remarks
Cécile R. Ganteaume (Curator, National Museum of the American Indian)

1:05 p.m.: The Ho-Chunk People
Photographer/Presenter: Tom Jones II (Ho-Chunk)
Discussant: David Penney (Associate Director for Museum Research, Scholarship and Public Engagement, National Museum of the American Indian)

2:00 p.m.: Stories of Resilience
Photographer/Presenter: Nīa MacKnight (Hunkpapa Lakota and Anishinaabe)
Discussant: Editha Mesina (Assistant Arts Professor, New York University)

3:00 p.m.: Break/Refreshments

3:15 p.m.: Panel - Native Photojournalism in the Twenty-first Century
Photographers/Panelists: Donovan Quintero (Diné), Tailyr Irvine (Salish and Kootenai), and Russell Albert Daniels (Diné descent and Ho-Chunk descent)
Discussant: John Jacob (Curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum)

4:00 p.m.: Closing Remarks: Anya Montiel (Curator, National Museum of the American Indian)

4:10 p.m.: Gallery Visit: Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field