Patricia Marroquin Norby

Patricia Marroquin Norby is the Native American Art Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is the first full-time Native American person hired for this position in the museum's 150-year history and she became the curator as of September 14, 2020. Norby is of Purépecha descent and most recently served as senior executive and assistant director of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York. Prior to this she was the director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry library in Chicago. She was also an assistant professor of American Indian studies at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Education.
Norby has a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in American studies with a specialization in Native American art history and visual culture. She has an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in printmaking and photography.