Monica Buckle is a consultant, curator and scholar specializing in Native American and Indigenous art both traditional and contemporary, as well as Indigenous archaeology. She is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation.

Monica provides a Native dialogue for the representation of Indigenous subject matter with her cultural knowledge and inter-tribal sensitivity. She is an advocate for the sustainability and cultural continuity of Native communities and tribal sovereign nations.

Monica holds a Master’s Degree in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York and a Bachelor of Science Degree from Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida. She is the Executive Director at the Verde Valley Archaeology Center and Museum in Camp Verde, Arizona. The museum is the official non-profit partner of the National Park Service to Montezuma Castle National Monument and Tuzigoot National Monument. The Verde Valley Archaeology Center and Museum stewards 80,000 Hisatsinom (Ancestral Hopi) artifacts and remnants.

She previously served as a Docent at The Brant Foundation Art Study Center in Greenwich, Connecticut. Founded and managed Monica Buckle Gallery LLC, an online art gallery with exhibition presence at New York art fairs. Worked as an Analytical Research Volunteer with Lord Cultural Resources, a global cultural consulting practice with museum planning and development services. She was the Visual Arts Coordinator and Public Relations Specialist for the American Indian Community House in New York City.

In 2023, Governor Hobbs of Arizona appointed Monica as a Commissioner on the Arizona Commission on the Arts. The Commission is an agency of the State of Arizona whose mission is to create funding and opportunities for all Arizonans to participate in and experience the arts.

Additionally, Monica is an Arizona Humanities Scholar with the Tucson Museum of Art in Tucson, Arizona and serves as a Guest Curator for the museum.

Monica also serves on the Board of Directors with the Mesa Verde Foundation in Colorado. The Mesa Verde Foundation is the official philanthropic partner to Mesa Verde National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Mesa Verde National Park protects and conserves 5,000 known Ancestral Puebloan and Native American sites.

She has a love of horses and oversaw riding and horsemanship sessions for youth, adults and veterans with disabilities and special needs at Pegasus Therapeutic Riding in Brewster, New York.