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Contributing Writers
ROY BONEY JR. (Cherokee Nation) is a full-blood Cherokee
and an award-winning filmmaker, artist, and writer. Boney has
written, directed, and produced several short animated films. As
a graphic novelist, Boney contributed to Dead Eyes Open and the
Eisner Award–nominated anthology Trickster: Native American
Tales. He works for the Language Technology Program for
the Cherokee Nation Education Services Group in Tahlequah,
Oklahoma.

JAMES FENDENHEIM (Tohono O’odham) is an award-

winning jeweler from Tucson and Sells, Arizona. He studied art at
the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico,
and at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas.
Primarily working in silver, Fendenheim also uses precious stones,
turquoise, woolly mammoth tusk, ivory, and ironwood in his
unique artwork.

SUZANNE NEWMAN FRICKE, PhD (Ashkenazic

American), art historian and curator, teaches modern and
contemporary art at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design.
Over the past 20 years, Professor Fricke has taught a wide variety
of art history courses, including Native art, Renaissance art,
Southwestern art, and postmodern art. She has written about and
lectured on contemporary Native artists, including Bob Haozous,
Chris Pappan, Nanibah Chacon, and Matika Wilbur. Fricke
curated Octopus Dreams: Works on Paper by Contemporary Native
American Artists, which traveled to six sites in to Russia in 2012
and to the 516ARTS Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is currently
organizing the show As We See It: Contemporary Native American
Photography, opening in October at the Novosibirsk Festival of
Photography.

BOB HAOZOUS (Warm Springs Chiricahua Apache) works

in a range of media but is best known for his monumental, sitespecific sculptures. He has co-curated exhibits such as the 2006
Relations: Indigenous Dialogue with Joseph Sanchez, Roxanne
Swentzell, and other Native art-activists. Haozous earned his BFA
from California College of Arts and Crafts and has shown his
work internationally. Son of prominent sculptor Allan Houser and
father of educator Emily Haozous, Haozous lives and works in
Santa Fe, New Mexico.

FRANCI KING HART (English-American) is a freelance

writer, consultant, and fundraiser living in Nichols Hill,
Oklahoma. Hart earned her bachelor’s degree in English and
education from Southern Methodist University and her MBA
from Southern Nazarene University. She collects Native American
art and serves as a governing board member for the Association of
Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM).

LINLEY B. LOGAN (Seneca Nation) is as a multidisciplinary
artist, who has served on numerous grant review panels (National
Endowment for the Arts (NEA), NACF, First Peoples Fund,
Longhouse Education and Cultural Center). Logan co-curated
contemporary Haudenosaunee and Native American art exhibits,
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worked for the Smithsonian and the NMAI, and wrote Native
American Dance, Ceremonies and Social Dance Traditions, published
by the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian
Institution. He has attended four international Indigenous arts
gatherings. Logan studied Industrial Design and graduated
from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 1985. He lives in
Bremerton, Washington.

DENISE NEIL-BINION (Delaware-Cherokee) currently

resides in Norman, Oklahoma. She earned her Master of Arts
degree in Native American art history from the University of New
Mexico, and her research interests center on Native American
female artists in Oklahoma. She is a PhD candidate in Native
American Art History at the University of Oklahoma.

STEVEN QUINN is a freelance writer and photographer

based in Juneau, Alaska. He has written stories on Alaska’s
Native communities for five years. His work has taken him to
theaters, classrooms, an artist’s workroom, and carving shed, and
marketplaces throughout the state.

KEVIN SIMPSON is the director of Peyote People, a
Wixáritari and Mexican folk art gallery and has recently
opened another gallery, Colectika. Both follow fair
trade practices and are devoted to promoting Indigenous
culture. Simspon graduated with an honors degree in
Political Science from the University of Western Ontario
in 1994. He lives in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico.
NEEBINNAUKZHIK SOUTHALL (Chippewas of Rama

First Nation) is a graphic designer and an artist, working in a
variety of media such as photography, body painting, and threedimensional art at Neebin Studios. At Oregon State University,
she graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2011, earning an Honors BFA
through the University Honors College and OSU’s competitive
graphic design program, with a minor in Fine Arts. Southall now
works at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian,
where she photographs, designs, and manages media.

MATTHEW RYAN SMITH, PhD, is a writer, independent
curator, and sessional professor based in Toronto, Ontario. His
writings have appeared in several art publications including
Canadian Art, C Magazine, FUSE, and Afterimage, in addition to
academic journals and exhibition catalogues.

TONY A. TIGER (Sac & Fox-Seminole-Muscogee Creek)

serves as the director of art and assistant art professor at Bacone
College. Tiger earned his MFA from the University of Oklahoma,
BFA from Oklahoma State University, and an Associate of Arts
degree from Seminole State College. An award-winning artist,
Tiger has exhibited his artwork throughout the United States. He
is an organizer with the Southeastern Indian Artists Association
(SEIAA) and lives in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

MAGDALENA VELASCO (Yaqui-Kickapoo) is a patient

advocate [