Lillia McEnaney is a museum anthropologist, independent curator, and freelance arts writer living and working in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
She is currently collaborating with the Museum of International Folk Art, the Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico, the Museum of New Mexico Press, and the Navajo Nation Museum.
Lillia is the secretary of the Board of the Council for Museum Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association, and also serves on the Railyard Park Conservancy’s Public Art Committee. She holds an MA from New York University and a BA from Hamilton College.
UPCOMING:
—iNgqikithi yokuPhica / Weaving Meanings: Telephone Wire Art from South Africa, assistant curator and project manager, Museum of International Folk Art, November 2024
—Reflections on Movement, project facilitator, Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, May 2024
—“Nothing Left for Me:” Federal Policy and the Photography of Milton Snow in Diné Bikéyah, co-curator, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, May 2024
RECENT:
Exhibitions
—Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles, project manager, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, July 2023
—in the woods…is perpetual youth, project facilitator, Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, May 2023
—Down Home: Anthony Lovato, curator, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, May 2023
—Ghhúunayúkata / To Keep Them Warm: The Alaska Native Parka, curatorial assistant, Museum of International Folk Art, May 2023
—We Were Basket Makers Before We Were Pueblo People: Pueblo Baskets in Context, assistant curator, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, November 2022
—Here, Now and Always, co-curator, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, July 2022
—ReVOlution: Virgil Ortiz, curator, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, May 2022
Writing
—”Work in Progress with Robert King (Choctaw),” studio visit, Southwest Contemporary, October 2023
—”Encounters Past and Future: Duhon James at Hecho a Mano” (review essay), Southwest Contemporary, August 2023
—”Exhibiting an Archive of a Shadow: Southwest Reflections at Millicent Rogers” (review essay), Southwest Contemporary, January 2023
—”Evoking Empowerment,” El Palacio: The Magazine of the Museum of New Mexico, Fall 2022