Creative Insights | Gallery Talk with Joe Baker
Joe Baker, Executive Director of the Lenape Center and enrolled Delaware Tribe member, discusses 3,000 years of stories through an Indigenous lens.
Why we picked this
Joe Baker brings more than three decades in Native Arts and a perspective rooted in living tradition — this is not academic commentary but a practitioner's reading of what 3,000 years of stories actually means.
Joe Baker is the Executive Director of the Lenape Center in New York City and an enrolled member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians. Over more than 30 years working in Native Arts, he has built one of the most sustained advocacy and cultural preservation efforts for Lenape heritage in the Northeast.
This gallery talk places Baker in conversation with Come Together: 3000 Years of Stories and Storytelling, the Morgan’s major exhibition examining the deep roots of human narrative. Baker’s perspective is grounded in a living oral tradition — one that predates and extends well beyond the Western literary canon at the center of most storytelling surveys.
Admission is free. The Morgan Library & Museum is located at 225 Madison Avenue, New York.