Dr. Manuela Well-Off-Man is an art historian and chief curator at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. She previously served as curator at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Ark. She has more than 20 years of curatorial experience in museums. She has curated many exhibitions on contemporary Indigenous and American art, 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, and art blogs.

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