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CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
CHRISTINA E. BURKE is the Curator of Native American
and Non-Western Art at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa,
Oklahoma. A cultural anthropologist with degrees from the
University of Rochester and Indiana University, Burke’s research
focuses on Native North America, particularly art and material
culture of the past and present.
YVE CHAVEZ, PhD (Tongva), is currently the Andrew W.
Mellon fellow at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
where she is working on a major exhibition scheduled to open in
2018. She recently graduated from the department of art history
at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her dissertation,
“Indigenous Artists, Ingenuity, and Resistance at the California
Missions After 1769,” aims to place California Indian agency
and artistry at the forefront of California mission art studies
through close analysis of Chumash and Tongva practices at four of
Southern California’s missions.
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 in education from Berry College in Georgia.
Much of her work is focused on the curation of 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 of her exhibitions.
ANDREA L. FERBER, PhD, is an art historian and independent
curator. She presents regularly at conferences and has received
numerous grants to support research and exhibitions. She has
written for Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis, Missouri, and Art in
Print, among other publications. Her most recent curatorial project
was Mni Wiconi (Water is Life) for the American Indian Workshop
(AIW) at Goldsmiths, University of London, England, July 2017.
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, the University of New Mexico,
and the Institute of American Indian Arts. She has curated three
exhibits, Octopus Dreams: Works on Paper by Contemporary Native
American Artists; As We See It: Photography by Contemporary Native
American Artists; and Woven Together: Celebrating Spider Woman in
Contemporary Native American Art, which traveled to sites in Russia,
Japan, and the United States.
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 admin-
istration 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 Santa
Fe Indian Market, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and the
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Unknown Maya artist, detail of The Tonsured Maya Maize God as
Patron of the Scribes, codex-style ceramic jar, 550-850 CE (CC0).
International Folk Art Alliance. She has also served as a public art
program and grant panelist, and has helped organize numerous
community arts events as a volunteer. Her writing has been featured
in the Santa Fean, Native Peoples, Santa Fe New Mexican, Bead and
Button, and other publications. A lifelong advocate of the arts and an
artist herself, she believes in the transformative power of art and in
those who create it.
NEAL McDONALD HAMPTON (Caddo-Chickasaw-Choctaw)
is an historian and independent scholar. He graduated in 2015 with
honors from the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond with
a master’s degree in history. His emphasis was on Native American
and Latin American history, particularly that of the Lipan Apaches
of south Texas and northeastern Mexico in the 19th century. He is
currently finishing a manuscript about Mexico’s Indian policy from
the 1830s to the 1850s with regard to the Lipan Apaches.
AURÉLIE JOURNÉE is a PhD candidate in social anthropology
and art history at L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales in
Paris, France.
MICHELLE LANTERI is a contemporary art scholar, curator,
and doctoral student at the University of Oklahoma. She served 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, a Native American studies minor, and a 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