Associate Professor, Art History
Bill Holm Center Endowed Professor
Curator of Northwest Native American Art, Burke Museum
Director, Bill Holm Center, Burke Museum
ART 202
Fields of Interest
Education
PhD, Art History, University of Washington, 2007
MA, Art History, University of Washington, 1998
BA, Middlebury College, 1993
Biography
Curriculum Vitae
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Selected Research
- Woven in Wool: Resilience in Coast Salish Weaving, September 13, 2025 – August 30, 2026, Burke Museum, Seattle, WA
- Bunn-Marcuse, Kathryn. 2023. "Manifesting Rights on Cloth: Regalia and Relations on the Northwest Coast" Arts 12, no. 5: 216. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12050216
- 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. "Inspiring Traditions, Living Aesthetics," National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works Grant. June 2019 – December 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. "A Collaborative Reframing of Franz Boas's Documentation of the Kwakiutl First Nation in 1930," NEH-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication. February 2018 – July 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.
- Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse and Robin K. Wright, co-editors. In the Spirit of the Ancestors: Contemporary Northwest Coast Art at the Burke Museum. Seattle: Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Coast Art and University of Washington Press, 2013.
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Winter 2026
Autumn 2025
Autumn 2024
Spring 2024
Autumn 2023
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Professional AffiliationsNative American Art Studies Association, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, College Art Association, Summer Institute on Global Indigeneities