Tilly Laskey, Curator of Ethnology

M.S., University of Colorado, Boulder (Museum Studies - Anthropology and Art History), 1999
B.A., University of Maine, Orono (Art History and Classics), 1988

Phone: (651) 221-9432
Email: plaskey@smm.org

Tilly Laskey has been involved with museums since 1985. She specializes in North American Native American material culture and contemporary art. Specific areas of research include dialogic tourist experiences and objects produced for such encounters.

Current projects at the Science Museum of Minnesota include organizing, cataloguing and researching the ethnology collections; updating database records; curating exhibitions; and working with research associates and interested community members.

Selected publications

2005. Inventory Isn’t Sexy. Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals 2(1): 6-10.

2001. Off the Loom, Arthur Amiotte’s Textiles. Arthur Amiotte Retrospective: Continuity and Diversity. The Heritage Center, Inc: Pine Ridge, SD.

2001. Norman Feder at the Denver Art Museum: A Chronology, 1958-1973. Studies in American Indian Art, A Memorial Tribute to Norman Feder. Christian Feest, ed. European Review of Native American Studies, University of Washington Press: Seattle and London.

1999. Art Facilitating Contact: Discourses on Museums and Cultural Tourism. High Plains Applied Anthropologist 19(1).