In a sense, Bonnie Seymour earned her status as Best Curator after her first day on the job. That was when she walked through The Parthenon’s archive of pre-Columbian Indigenous artifacts and thought, “These don’t belong here.” The subsequent repatriation of the works to Mexico has put Nashville at the forefront of an international conversation. Now that the dust has settled and the relics are in their new home at the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia in Mexico City, Seymour can look toward the future and see what kinds of exhibitions Nashvillians should have next. She’s set a high bar for herself, and we can’t wait to see what she’ll come up with.
