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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