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EDUCATION

2023   Fashion Institute of Technology, BFA in Photography and Related Media, Minors in Art History, Fashion History Theory and Culture, and Film and

           Media Studies, with Honors

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Jul 2025 - Present  Abbe Museum, Wabanaki Curatorial Fellow, Bar Harbor, ME

Apr 2025- Present  Portland Museum of Art, Teen Engagement Specialist, Portland, ME

Jan 2024 - Jan 2026  Colby College Museum of Art, Gallery Educator, Waterville, ME

Sep 2023 - Sep 2024  Historic New England, Indigenous Community Liaison and Researcher, Milton, MA

May 2022 - Jul 2022  Alexandre Vassiliev Foundation, Fashion and Photography Digital Archive Intern, Paris, FR

Feb 2022 - Jun 2022  Blush Magazine, Photography Director, New York, NY

Jan 2019 - Jan 2022  Freelance Photo Retoucher, New York, NY

July 2016 - July 2018  Silverbell Photography, Second Shooter, Gardiner, ME

Aug 2014 - Oct 2025  Freelance Portrait, Wedding, and Fashion Photographer, Gardiner, ME, New York, NY

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2027   Abbe Museum, Holding the Light: Contemporary Wabanaki Photography pt. 2, Bar Harbor, ME (upcoming)

2026   Portland Museum of Art, Holding the Light: Contemporary Wabanaki Photography, Bar Harbor, ME (upcoming)

2026   Abbe Museum, Holding the Light: Contemporary Wabanaki Photography, Bar Harbor, ME

2025   Waterfall Arts, Portals Into Our Futures, Belfast, ME

2023   Museum at FIT, Before I Leave, New York, NY

2021   Pomerantz Gallery, Untitled, New York, NY

 

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2027   Abbe Museum, Holding the Light: Contemporary Wabanaki Photography pt. 2, Bar Harbor, ME (upcoming)

2026   Portland Museum of Art, Holding the Light: Contemporary Wabanaki Photography, Bar Harbor, ME (upcoming)

2026   Abbe Museum, Holding the Light: Contemporary Wabanaki Photography, Bar Harbor, ME

2025   Portland Museum of Art, Basket Wall Reinstallation: Mi’kmaq Migration and Memory, Portland, ME

2024   Sarah Orne Jewett Gallery, Historic Wapánahkeyak, South Berwick, ME

2022   Alexandre Vassiliev Foundation, Cultural Appropriation through the History of Western Fashion, Paris, FR

 

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

2026   Association of Historians of American Art Symposium, Transforming Museums Across the Dawnland (roundtable), Portland, ME

2026   Abbe Museum, Holding the Light: Contemporary Wabanaki Photography (panel), Bar Harbor, ME

2026   National Art Education Association Preconvention, Tea from the Teens: Connecting with Young Adult Audiences in the Galleries

           (Teaching Demonstration), Chicago, IL

2025   Maine Archives and Museums Conference, Interpreting the Colby Museum through an Indigenous Lens (Lecture), Farmington, ME

2025   Portland Museum of Art, Interpreting “Braiding the Land/Becomes Body of Water” (Gallery Activation), Portland, ME

2025   Maine Arts Education Association, Interpreting the Colby Museum through an Indigenous Lens (Workshop), Waterville, ME

2025   Waterville Public Schools Day of Learning, Decolonizing Art and the Non-Native Gaze (Workshop), Waterville, ME

2025   Colby College, Innovative Strategies for Social Impact: Art and Decolonization (lecture), Waterville, ME

2024   Historic New England, Historic Wαpánahkəyak (Panel Moderator), South Berwick, ME

2024   Central Maine Education Consortium's Wabanaki Studies Special Interest Group, Decolonizing Art and the Non-Native Gaze (Workshop), Waterville, ME

2024   Abbe Museum, Collection Spotlight: Art Making for (Re)Connection (Gallery Activation), Bar Harbor, ME                                                           

©2025 by Danikah Chartier

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