heather ahtone, PhD (Chickasaw), is director of Curatorial Affairs at the First Americans Museum.
[4] Ahtone previously worked at the IAIA and the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA).
[2] In 2007, she began researching at the OU School of Geology and Geophysics while teaching courses in Art History in Norman, Oklahoma.
She served as the James T. Bialac Curator of Native American and Non-Western Art at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, part of OU, from 2012 to 2018.
[3] She has authored and contributed to catalogues, ‘’OKLA HOMMA’’, ‘’WINIKO: Life of an Object, Selections from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian’’, Warhol and the West, Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts at 25, Hopituy: Hopi Art from the Permanent Collections, From the belly of our being: Art by and about Native Creation, Seeds of Being: A Project of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Native American Art & Museum Studies Seminar, and many more.