Sháńdíín Brown @shandiin13 is a Diné (Navajo) curator, jeweler, and fashion enthusiast. She is the first Henry Luce Curatorial Fellow for Native American Art @risdmuseum. About 1,000 objects make up the RISD Museum Native North American Art collection, with a diverse array of Tribal Nations represented. Brown co-curated “Being and Believing in the Natural World: Perspectives from the Ancient Mediterranean, Asia, and Indigenous North America” along with Gina Borromeo (former curator of ancient art) and Wai Yee Chiong (associate curator of Asian art), which is on view at the RISD Museum until May 7, 2023. Shown: 1: Brown polishing Diné squash blossom necklace (ca. 1930, object number 55.050 from the RISD Museum collection) 2: Image from “Being and Believing in the Natural World” featuring Melissa Cody’s @codyedgewater (Diné) “Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Dust)”, 2013 and Elizabeth James Perry’s (Aquinnah Wampanoag) “Star Scape Wampum Belt”, 2021 as well as “Thunderbird over Red Earth (Patterned twined soft-fiber basket or bag)”, 2021 3: Helina Metaferia @helina.metaferia and Brown with "We've Been Here Before" which is Metaferia's public art project and on view at the RISD Museum. Brown is the subject of the full-figure collage portrait banner near the museum’s Benefit Street entrance. The collage includes photographs of Brown's family, and newspaper articles of Diné and Native American activists from the RISD and Brown University archives 4: Brown dusting Apache olla (ca.1800s, object number 39.068 from the RISD Museum collection) 5: Image from “Being and Believing in the Natural World” featuring Ka'igwu (Kiowa) cradleboard (ca. 1900 and object number 44.610 from the RISD Museum collection), Tlingit Chilkat robe (late 1800s and object number 43.228 from the RISD Museum collection), and Pikuni Blackfeet (Piegan) parfleche (ca.1800s, object number 43.099 from the RISD Museum collection) 6: Image from “Being and Believing in the Natural World” featuring Dawn Spears @dspears85 (Narragansett/Choctaw) “Cornhusk Dolls,” 2013 & 2014 and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Salish/Cree/Shoshone) “Sticky Mouth,” 1997 #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #RISD #RISDMuseum