Contributors

Jill oversees the museum’s collection of Native American art. She arrived at Mia in 2014, having previously served as assistant curator and Mellon Fellow of Native American Art at the St. Louis Art Museum. She grew up in rural Pennsylvania, received her BA from the University of Maryland, and studied anthropology for her MA at the University of New Mexico. For her PhD (2008), also from the University of New Mexico, she focused on Navajo textiles, learning the Navajo language and living on the vast Navajo reservation for 4.5 years. Among her initiatives at Mia is showcasing native Minnesota artists, highlighting the art of native women, and bringing native perspectives to bear on the museum’s collection.

Dennis has more than 25 years of museum-based experience as a curator, art historian, and educator. A specialist in modern, postwar, and contemporary works on paper and artists’ books, he has organized and overseen more than 65 exhibitions, exploring such subjects as labor and industry, war and its consequences, homicide, art and nature, spirituality, the book as art object, and the history of the American Presidency. Dennis completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and received his MA in modern and contemporary art history from the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities.

Jennifer L. Roberts is the Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities at Harvard, where she teaches American art and the history of printmaking in the Department of History of Art and Architecture. She is currently serving as the Johnson-Kulukundis Family Faculty Director of the Arts at the Radcliffe Institute.