Sherrie Smith Ferri

Sherrie Smith Ferri lives in Ukiah and has a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Washington-Seattle. She is an enrolled member of the Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians with Bodega Coast Miwok heritage. She is the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for her nation. She served as the former director of the Grace Hudson Museum and Sun House in Ukiah. For the DeYoung Museum of San Francisco she was part of a team that reorganized how Native works are displayed and contextualized for the exhibit “Arts of Indigenous America,” reviewed in The New York Times. She curated the exhibit “The Creative Legacy of William V. Smith and the Smith Family for the Santa Rosa Junior College Multicultural Museum (2025). Her affiliations include the Pomo Weavers Society, Native California Research Institute, and the Advisory Council of the Hearts Museum at the University of California-Berkeley. 

New York Times review of DeYoung Museum exhibit: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/arts/design/de-young-museum-san-francisco-native-objects.html.

On Pomo coiled baskets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVOqtWS44JI