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  • Milwaukee Public Museum

Aaron Atencio

  • Honorary Research Fellow, Anthropology

Aaron Robert Atencio is a visual anthropologist who has worked in print and digital journalism, documentary photography, and long-form social documentation.  He serves as the Curator of Cultural Sciences at the Milwaukee Public Museum.  Atencio has a commanding voice as a photographer who makes photographs that serve as more than documents and artifacts of preserved places and things. His photographs ask the question, “How then shall we live?” His most recent work explores religiosity, sacred landscapes, and rock art through the photographic processes in the Northwestern Great Plains and the Great Basin of North America.

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.