5TH ANNUAL NATIVE AMERICAN ART MARKET AND CULTURAL CELEBRATION
JULY 14-15, 2017
FRIDAY ARTIST AWARDS RECEPTION Dahl Arts Center
RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA www. nativepop. org
SATURDAY NATIVE FINE ART, FASHION SHOW, FILM SHOWCASE Main Street Square
Wade Patton( Oglala Lakota)“ Summer Storm”( detail) 2016 Ink / Prisma color
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
ANNICK BENAVIDES is pursuing her PhD in art history at Harvard University, with interest in Indigenous Colonial art of the Andes. Previously she worked as director of El Museo Pedro de Osma in Lima, Peru. She holds a master’ s degree in art history from the University of New Mexico and a bachelor’ s degree in art history from Williams College. She worked for several years developing educational outreach programs for adult and schoolaged visitors to art museums in the United States and Peru.
CAROLYN BUTLER-PALMER, PhD, is associate professor and Williams Legacy Chair in the Modern and Contemporary Arts of the Pacific Northwest at the University of Victoria. In 2017, she collaborated with David Anthony Neel and Lou-ann Neel in the creation of Ellen Neel: The First Woman Totem Pole Carver exhibit at the University of Victoria’ s Legacy Art Gallery. Dr. Butler-Palmer is currently working on a book project about Charlie James’ s granddaughter Ellen Neel, David Lyle Neel, and his descendants David Anthony Neel, Edwin Neel, and Ellen Neel( all Kwakwaka’ wakw). She is also completing an article with legal scholar Vanessa Udy on Ellen Neel and copyright in Canada, to be published in RACAR.
ROSE MARIE CUTROPIA is an independent curator and an archivist with almost 40 years of interior design experience. Proud to be an IAIA alumna with a bachelor of arts degree in museum studies, Cutropia was the design curator on the IAIA
Museum of Contemporary Native Arts team that produced Lloyd Kiva New: Art, Design, and Influence.
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 Media Network.
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.
STACI GOLAR( Cornish-Welsh-American) holds a bachelor’ s degree in art with a minor in sociology and anthropology from Eastern Oregon University, and a master’ s degree in arts administration from the University of Oregon. After completing an arts management internship at Crow’ s Shadow Institute of the Arts on the Umatilla Reservation, she went on to work for SWAIA’ s
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