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CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
JANET CATHERINE BERLO, PhD, is a professor of art
history and visual and cultural studies at the University of
Rochester. She holds a doctoral degree from Yale University and
has written numerous books and articles on Native American
art, including the influential Native North American Art with
Ruth B. Phillips (Oxford University Press, 1998, second edition
2015), and Plains Indian Drawings 1865–1935 (Harry N.
Abrams, 1996).
ROSEMARY DIAZ (Santa Clara Tewa) is a freelance writer
based in Santa Fe. She studied literature and its respective arts
at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Naropa University, and
University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work has appeared in
numerous publications including Beadwork, Collector’s Guide,
Native Peoples, and the Santa Fean, and she is featured online at
Indian Country Today Media Network.
MICHOLE ELDRED (Catawba Nation-Eastern Band
Cherokee) is a writer, curator, and educator. She received her
bachelor’s degree in art and museum studies at University of
South Florida and her master’s degree in education from Berry
College. Much of her work is focused on curating Indigenous
art and historical exhibitions. She believes that the process of
art making and enjoyment of the arts should be accessible to all
peoples. Her work in writing art curriculum and teaching the
arts to people with disabilities is reflected in the interpretive
planning she implements when creating exhibitions.
SUZANNE NEWMAN FRICKE, PhD (Ashkenazic-
American), wrote her art history dissertation at the University
of New Mexico on 20th-century Native pottery. She has taught
art history at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. Fricke
co-curated two exhibits that traveled in Russia in 2012 and
2014. She curated a third show, Woven Together: Celebrating
Spider Woman in Contemporary Native American Art, which
exhibited in two Russian museums in 2015.
CHELSEA HERR (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), originally
from Southern California, is currently pursuing her PhD in
Native American art history at the University of Oklahoma,
where she is a Kerr Fellow at the Charles M. Russell Center. Her
research explores the ways in which contemporary Indigenous
artists use subversive techniques such as humor, parody, and
science fiction tropes to interrogate the dominant narrative of
American history.
KAREN KRAMER is the curator of Native American and
Oceanic art and culture and directs the Native American
Fellowship Program at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in
Salem, Massachusetts. Over the past 20 years, Kramer helped
produce ten major exhibitions on Native American art and
culture at PEM, including Native Fashion Now and Shapeshifting:
Transformations in Native American Art. She earned her MA in
anthropology from George Washington University and her BA
in anthropology from the University of Denver.
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NADIA JACKINSKY, PhD (Alutiiq), is an art historian
and an adjunct instructor at the University of Alaska,
Anchorage. She works as a program officer for a grant
program dedicated to supporting Alaska Native artists at
the CIRI Foundation. Her research interests include Alaska
Native art, cultural revival, and identity.
AURÉLIE JOURNÉE is a PhD candidate in anthropology
and art history at the L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences
Sociales and University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in
Paris, France. Her thesis focuses on the questions raised by the
presence of photographs inside mixed media artworks made by
female Native American artists. She assisted the IAIA Museum
of Contemporary Native Arts with planning and researching of
the exhibitions New Impressions: Experiments in Contemporary
Native American Printmaking and Connective Tissue: New
Approaches to Fiber in Contemporary Native American Art. She
earned master’s degrees in art history from the University of
Paris 1 and museography from the École du Louvre (Musée du
Louvre, Paris). Journée interned at the musée du quai Branly
(Paris), where she gained experience in collection inventorying,
digitization, and cataloguing.
MICHELLE LANTERI is a contemporary art scholar and
curator serving as interim director of the University Art
Gallery at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. With
her thesis focused on Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke [Crow]),
Lanteri earned a master of arts degree in art history, Native
American studies minor, and certificate in museum studies
with unwavering support from the Departments of Art and
Anthropology at New Mexico State University.
JEAN MERZ-EDWARDS has studied art history since 2000,
when she attended her first classes on the subject at Hunter
College in New York. She earned her master’s degree in art
history from the University of Oklahoma and was granted a
certificate in women’s and gender studies and the Alice Mary
Robertson Award for her scholarship on the life and art of
Linda Lomahaftewa (Hopi-Choctaw). Merz-Edwards teaches
art history at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas.
ROSHII MONTANO (Diné) belongs to the following clans:
Tódích’íi’nii nishłįʹ, dóó Naakaii báshíshchiin, Kinyaa’áanii
dashíchei, dóó Naakaii dashínáłí. Her fami