Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum has invited Candice Hopkins to present the fourth iteration of The Butterfly Effect. Can Small Shifts in Museum Practice Generate Seismic Change Across our Societies? with a talk titled New Models: Non-Colonial Institutions.  

Date: 19 March, 2024, 3–4 pm 
Location: Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Romsa/Tromsø 
The talk will take place in English 
Please register your attendance at the link 
The event will be recorded and light refreshments will be served 

Candice Hopkins is Executive Director and Chief Curator of Forge Project, a Native-led institution dedicated to cultivating Indigenous leadership in arts and culture based in Taghkanic, New York. She will speak about the genesis of the organization and how they create models of Native cultural self-determination and through enacting these, demonstrate not only their feasibility but their viability to other institutions by challenging colonial norms. Forge Project is not a museum, and it is therefore not constrained by the colonial legacy and the institutional hurdles faced by museums. Hopkins will also speak about the ways in which they have adopted Indigenous protocols for practices such as land remediation, relational programming, and their lending collection, incorporating artists’ perspectives into these agreements.  

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