Cantor Art Center Book Talk

Professor Nancy Marie Mithlo (UCLA) discusses the emergence of Indigenous arts in global contexts from 1997-2017 drawing from her work curating nine exhibits at the Venice Biennale. Mithlo’s archival papers are housed at Stanford University Libraries’ Special Collections. Red Skin Dreams documents and theorizes the presentation of contemporary American Indian art through memoir and storytelling. Dr. Milthlo is joined in conversation with ​Professor Jennifer DeVere Brody (Theater and Performance Studies and African and African American Studies at Stanford University; Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts Research; recent curator of Edmonia Lewis: Indelible Impressions at Cantor Arts Center). This program took place on April 23, 2026