Siera Hyte

TRIBAL AFFILIATION: Cherokee Nation

PANEL TITLE: Centering Wabanaki Voices in America's 250th

BIOGRAPHY
Siera Hyte is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation. She is an artist, a writer, and the inaugural Schiller Family Curator of Indigenous American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia. Hyte formerly held the role of Manager of Programs and Fellowships at the Lunder Institute for American Art and Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Colby Museum in Waterville, Maine. Her background in education includes working as a museum educator at the Missoula Art Museum, as a Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, and as a K-6 art teacher.