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Associate Professor, Art History
Bill Holm Center Endowed Professor
Curator of Northwest Native American Art, Burke Museum
Director, Bill Holm Center, Burke Museum
Assistant Professor, Art History
Latest News
- ARTH 480/533: Museums and Decolonization (January 18, 2024)
- The Art of Founders Hall (March 6, 2023)
- Seattle to take closer look at public art to make sure it's culturally appropriate (November 7, 2018)
- McClelland Curates Exhibition (October 10, 2016)
- Matahoata at Musée du Quai Branly (May 9, 2016)
Related Research
- Woven in Wool: Resilience in Coast Salish Weaving, September 13, 2025 – August 30, 2026, Burke Museum, Seattle, WA
- Tankha, Akshaya. “Akshaya Tankha. Review of ‘Adivasi Art and Activism: Curation in a Nationalist Age’ by Alice Tilche.” CAA.Reviews (New York, N.Y.), 2025. doi:10.3202/caa.reviews.2025.39.
- Akshaya Tankha. “Monuments, Temporality, and the Aesthetics of Indigenous Presence in Postcolonial South Asia.” 21: inquiries into art, history, and the visual (Online) 5, no. 1 (2024). doi:10.11588/xxi.2024.1.102978.
- Tankha, Akshaya. “The Houseness of the Naga House Museum: Towards a Narrative of the Postcolonial South Asian House Museum.” South Asia 47, no. 1 (2024): 133–58. doi:10.1080/00856401.2024.2315805.
- Jennifer Baez, "How to Wrap a Colonizer." In Nourish and Resist: Food and Feminisms in Contemporary Global Caribbean Art, eds. Hannah Ryan and Lesley A. Wolff (Yale University Press), 2024. Available via A&AePortal.
- Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse and Aldona Jonaitis, co-editors. Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020.
- Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse. Guest Editor, Bully Pulpit. Contributing Author “Textualizing Intangible Cultural Heritage: Querying the Methods of Art History.” Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of Art, 4, no. 2 (Fall 2018).
- Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse. "Streams of Tourists: Navigating the Tourist Tides in late 19th Century SE Alaska." in Indigenous Tourism Movements. Edited by Nelson Graburn and Alexis Bunten. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017, pp. 165–197.
- Jeanette C. Mills. "Land Claim Art: Joe David and His Support of Meares Island Tribal Park." MA Thesis, University of Washington, 1990.
- Jeanette C. Mills. "The Meares Island Controversy and Joe David: Art in Support of a Cause." American Indian Art Magazine, 14:4 (Autumn 1989): 60-69.