Overview
Noah Mapes is an art historian who specializes in modern and contemporary Indigenous arts and material cultures. His research primarily focuses on the interactions between Native American and First Nations aesthetics, activist practices, and languages as well as intercultural relationality.
Prior to arriving at Cornell, Noah earned his BA in Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Additionally, he served as a curatorial assistant at the Chazen Museum of Art in Madison, where he curated Origin, Vision, Place, Voice: The Art of Truman Lowe. He was also a Native American Fellow at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, where he served as a research assistant and developed educational resources for the upcoming exhibition Native American and American Art. Noah has also assisted in the development of exhibitions at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and the Neville Public Museum. He has presented his work on Indigenous art at the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.