RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
MUSEUMS
The New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs hired Polly Nordstrand to serve as the executive director of the MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE in Santa Fe , as well as manage the Laboratory of Anthropology , the Center for New Mexico Archaeology , Museum Hill Café , and other public spaces on Museum Hill . Previously Nordstrand was the inaugural curator of Native American art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville , Arkansas , and curator of Southwest art at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College . She was a curator at the Denver Art Museum , the National Park Service , and the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum and taught at the University of Denver .
The MUSEUM OF INDIANS ARTS AND CULTURE selected Marita Hinds ( Tesuque Pueblo ) to serve as its educational director . Previously she served as a school administrator for the Te Tsu Geh Oweenge School at Tesuque Pueblo , New Mexico , and has worked at the Institute of American Indian Arts and the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts . She earned her AFA degree from the Institute of American Indian Arts and her bachelor ’ s degree from the College of Santa Fe .
NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA ( NGC ) in Ottawa fired four of its senior staff members , including Greg A . Hill ( Mohawk ), who was the Audain senior curator of Indigenous Art . Hill was part of the NGC ’ s Department of Indigenous Ways and Decolonization , created in February 2022 , led by the museum ’ s vice-president Steven Loft ( Mohawk ) and department director Michelle LaVallee ( Neyaashiinigmiing Ojibway ). NGC ’ s interim CEO Angela Cassie is implementing a strategic plan created under her predecessor in 2021 . Hill had worked at the gallery for 22 years .
ORGANIZATIONS
The RALPH T . COE CENTER FOR THE ARTS in Santa Fe hired Alex J . Peña ( Comanche / Pawnee / San Ildefonso above Polly Nordstrand ( Hopi ), newly hired executive director of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture , Santa Fe . © 2022 Polly Nordstrand . Image courtesy of Polly Nordstrand and the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs .
Pueblo ) as its deputy director and chief curator . Peña is a printmaker and educator who previously taught at the Santa Fe Preparatory School . Before that , he taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts and the University of Wisconsin , Madison . He earned his BFA from Cameron University and his MA and MFA degrees from the University of Wisconsin , Madison .
The TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS , a land conservation nonprofit organization based in Boston , hired Tess Lukey ( Aquinnah Wampanoag ) as its inaugural associate curator of Native American art . She will be based at the Fruitlands Museum and deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum . Lukey was the lead horticulture interpreter at Old Sturbridge Village and a curatorial research associate at the Museum of Fine Arts , Boston . She earned her BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design , and her MA in art history and museum studies from the University of New Mexico .
SCHOOLS
The UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS , Fayetteville , partnered with the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art to create a new art history master ’ s degree program on the arts of the Americas .
Classes for the two-year residency program will begin in Fall 2023 . Donations from the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation provide full tuition waivers for all accepted students .
ART SHOWS
Samantha Jacobs ( Seneca ) and Hayden Haynes ( Seneca ) won best of show at the 2022 HODINÖHSÖ : NI ' ART SHOW at the Ganondagan State Historic Site located in Victor , New York . Classifications winners were Ronni-Leigh Goeman ( Onondaga ) and Stonehorse Goeman ( Tonawanda Seneca ), basketry ; Jessica Hernandez ( Mohawk ), beadwork ; Luanne Redeye ( Seneca ), fine art 2D ; Natasha Smoke Santiago ( Mohawk ), fine art , 3D ; Hayden Haynes , photography ; and Natasha Smoke Santiago , traditional art .
MARKETS
NORTHERN PLAINS INDIAN ART MARKET , hosted by Sinte Gleska University , took place at the Hilton Garden Inn Downtown in Sioux Falls , South Dakota . Angela Babby ( Oglala Lakota ) won best of show . Janyce Trask ( Oglala Lakota ) won Best of Tribal Arts , while Kevin and Valerie Pourier ( both Oglala Lakota ) won Best of Fine Arts . Division winners were Dwayne Wilcox ( Oglala Lakota ), oil and acrylic paintings ; Wade Patton ( Oglala Lakota ), drawing ; Jackie Sevier ( Northern Arapaho ), printmaking ; Dwayne Wilcox , 3D – additional process ; Alfred Decoteau ( Turtle Mountain Chippewa ), 3D – subtractive process ; Kevin Pourier , jewelry and decorative metalwork ; Henry Payer ( Winnebago ), mixed media , fine arts ; Marlena Myles ( Dakota / Mohegan / Muscogee ), digital and computer-generated ; Emil Her Many Horses ( Oglala Lakota ), traditional-style beadwork ; Patricia Belgarde ( Turtle Mountain Chippewa ), contemporary beadwork ; Carol Wilcox ( Oglala Lakota ), quilts ; Nelda Schrupp ( Pheasant Rump Nakota ), textile and fabric items ; Molina Jo Two Bulls ( Oglala Lakota ), handmade dolls ; Awanigiizhik Bruce ( Turtle Mountain Chippewa ), traditional painting ; Jackie Sevier , mixed-media , tribal arts ; and Dwayne Wilcox , mixed-media , 3D .
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