Curator and Director of Curatorial Initiatives, Art Bridges Foundation

Ashley Holland Biography

Ashley Holland (Cherokee Nation) serves as the Curator and Director of Curatorial Initiatives for the Art Bridges Foundation. She is the former Assistant Curator of Native Art at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis. Holland earned her doctorate in art history from the University of Oklahoma, Norman in 2021 with a focus on Indigenous identity, cultural memory, and issues of diaspora in Cherokee contemporary art. She received an MA in museum studies from Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, and BA in art history and religious studies from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. Holland is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and currently lives in Rogers, Arkansas.