Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Of Maps, Abstraction, and Language

Indigenous Abstraction, Women's Labor, and Opacity in Modern and Contemporary Native Art

Taylor Rose Payer is an Anishinaabe scholar and PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Minnesota. Before beginning her doctoral studies, she spent a decade working in art museums and galleries, earned an MA in Public Humanities from Brown University and received her BA from Dartmouth College. She was born and raised on the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Reservation in Belcourt, North Dakota.

Taylor Rose is the 2025–2026 Betsy Wyeth Fellow in Native American Art at the National Museum of the American Indian and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Under the guidance of advisors Anya Montiel and Mary Savig, she is conducting dissertation research focused on Native women artists and the politics of abstraction.