Designed for Professor Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, this syllabus outlines an undergraduate and graduate-level Art History class on Indigenous Women Artists of the Northwest Coast. Dr. Bunn-Marcuse and I gathered the most current research spanning subjects from weaving and carving to feminism and contemporary cultural issues. After sifting through all of the scholarship, I organized the class into a chronological progression of subjects and assigned readings for each week along with assignment ideas and discussion questions.

At each step of the process, maximizing the students’ learning was top of my mind. I asked myself: “what is the best way that this information could be presented?” For example, the Basketry lesson includes a visit to the Burke museum to see the basketry collection rather than assigning an outdated anthropological text.