About the Founder: 

Laureta Huit is a skilled museum professional with over twelve years of experience cataloguing, handling and overseeing art objects’ safe stewardship— from shipping and transport to eventual installation in exhibitions and museum collections. 

Huit’s experience includes advanced authority in exhibition logistics and collection preservation and management, as well as curatorial supervision and design. 

Much of Laureta’s academic and personal work have focused on her enthusiasm for Contemporary Native American art, the Transcendental Painting Group— a modernist art movement formed in New Mexico (1938-1942).  Serving these interests, Laureta acted as manager of collections with more than 29,000 objects originating from the Great Basin, Plateau and Pacific Northwestern territories (portions of Oregon, Nevada, Washington, Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico and California), ranging from historic and cultural artifacts of various Native American groups to clothing, regalia, furniture, tools, archeological materials, basketry, paintings, drawings, sculpture, rare books and photographs—as well as works by contemporary Native American artists. 

2019 | Aspen Art Museum

2017-2019 | Palm Springs Art Museum

2016-2017 | High Desert Museum

2014-2016 | Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell New Mexico

2013 | Apex Art, Marfa Texas

Education:

2010 Bachelors of Arts, Philosophy, focus in Aesthetics, University of Texas El Paso

2010 Bachelors of Fine Arts, Art History, focus in Latin American Art, University of Texas El Paso

2010 Certification, Museum Studies and Exhibition Practices, University of Texas El Paso