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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Join the Inclusion, Advocacy and Support Programs for a conversation about the virtual exhibit “Indigenous Futurisms: Transcending Past/Present/Future” with Dr. Manuela Well-Off-Man, Chief Curator for the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. Dr. Well-Off-Man will be joining us to discuss a few pieces from the current virtual exhibit, as well as contextualizing decolonization and borders as they relate to indigenous communities. View the virtual exhibit beforehand here: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=87KgpmiBhcP.
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Dr. Manuela Well-Off-Man is an art historian and chief curator at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. Well-Off-Man previously served as curator at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR. She has more than 20 years of curatorial experience in museums and galleries. She has curated more than 46 exhibitions, including national and international traveling contemporary Native American art exhibitions. Well-Off-Man received her Ph.D. in art history from the Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, and earned her M.A. degree in art history, archaeology and pedagogy from the University of Cologne, Germany. She lectures frequently on various topics of American art, and authored numerous exhibition catalogue essays, magazine articles, blogs and scholarly texts.