The Michael C. Carlos Museum has announced the appointment of Miranda Kyle as the curator of Indigenous Art of the Americas. Kyle, who until recently was the arts and culture program manager and chief curator at the Atlanta BeltLine, brings a wealth of experience to her new role at the museum.
“I am excited about growing the Native North American Collection, celebrating living artists and thriving cultures, and deepening the region’s understanding, appreciation, and support of those cultures,” explained Kyle. “I look forward to reconnecting communities to this gem of a museum, and nurturing our relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Nations across the Americas.”
Pulling from her expertise in Indigenous land rights, contemporary art, and sociocultural activism, Kyle hopes to grow the Native North American Collection and bring in contemporary works to the museum. “Indigenous art holds the history of place, documents the reality of the times, and is a barometer of futurity,” said Kyle.
Kyle’s achievements include representation in the 2022 Berlin Biennial, recognition as an Emory University Arts & Social Justice Fellow, inclusion in the Georgia Trend 40 Under 40, and the recipient of the StarSeed Fellowship as well as the 2013 Lee Kimche McGrath Fellowship for Arts & Sciences. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Savannah College of Art and Design and an MA in Painting and Drawing from the Edinburgh College of Arts.
“I don’t believe in categorizing Indigenous artworks as ‘historical’ or ‘traditional’ in an effort to fix a culture in a distant, unrelatable past. Or to mythologize people,” said Kyle. “All these works, and works we have and will acquire by living artists testify to their contemporary sense of the world in which they were made. This sense of time and place is a story we would all do well to internalize and implement in our daily lives.”
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