Leesa Kelly is an activist, writer, public speaker, and curator. She is founder and executive director of Memorialize the Movement, a grassroots organization that preserves, displays, and educates the public on the protest plywood murals that emerged after George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis in 2020. Howard Oransky is director of the Katherine E. Nash Gallery. He is curator of A Tender Spirit, A Vital Form: Arlene Burke Morgan and Clarence Morgan and, with Brenda J. Child, Dreaming Our Futures: Ojibwe and OčhÉthi ŠakÓwiŋ Artists and Knowledge Keepers. Both exhibition catalogs are distributed by the University of Minnesota Press.
