Curator, conceptual artist and poet Mēlani N. Douglass is the founder of the award-winning Family Arts Museum - a migratory institution focused on the celebration of family as fine art, home as curated space, and community as gallery. Inspired by the birth of her daughter, Mēlani started her own museum, reimagined her studio practice, and refined her innovative approach to community engagement, audience development, and exhibition design. Mēlani anchors her work in the understanding that we are the answers and the medicine we seek. Solutions are encoded in our dna and through ritual, our “ancestral technology” - a phrase coined as a part of her graduate work - is revealed.

Mēlani actively works to reveal this technology through her art practice, parenting and every day life.