Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs & Curator of Indigenous Art
About
Jami Powell (she/her) is the Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Indigenous Art at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College where she also serves as a senior lecturer in the Native American and Indigenous Studies Department. Powell is a citizen of the Osage Nation and has a PhD in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During her tenure at the Hood Museum, Powell has curated exhibitions including Form and Relation: Contemporary Native American Ceramics, CIPX Dartmouth with Kali Spitzer and Will Wilson, Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Bark Painting from Yirrkala, and This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World among others. Powell's co-edited volume titled Re-Envisioning American Art: Transforming Museum Practice was published by the University of Washington Press in 2025. She is on the board of directors for the Native American Art Studies Association and has served in advisory roles for numerous museums, arts organizations, and publications. Most recently, Powell curated Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light), the first solo exhibition for Chemehuevi photographer and artist Cara Romero which was accompanied by a catalogue co-published by Radius Books and the Hood Museum of Art. The exhibition is currently on a national tour, opening at the Phoenix Art Museum in February 2026.
