First American Art Magazine No. 7, Summer 2015 | Page 12

Recent Developments
MUSEUMS
The University of Tulsa hired James
Pepper Henry (Kaw-Muscogee Creek)
as the new executive director of the
Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Henry previously served as director and
CEO of the Heard Museum and the
Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center,
associate director of the National Museum
of the American Indian, and director of
the Kanza Museum, which he co-founded.
The Indian Arts and Crafts Board is
refurbishing the Southern Plains Indian
Museum (SPIM) in Anadarko, Oklahoma.
John Worthington, a Bureau of Indian
Affairs archaeologist, is serving as interim
curator while the previous curator Bambi
Allen is on extended leave. The new
museum design will feature more space
to display items from SPIM’s permanent
collection and a hands-on learning center
for children.
The interim chief curator of the Museum
of Contemporary Native Arts
(MoCNA), Candice Hopkins (Carcross/
Tagish First Nations), has accepted the
position as chief curator. Hopkins earned
her master’s degree from the Center for
Curatorial Studies at Bard College and has
curated at the National Gallery of Canada,
the Western Front, the Walter Phillips
Gallery, and SITE Santa Fe.
The Iroquois Indian Museum, in Howes
Cave, New York, hired Stephanie Shultes
as its new director. Shultes volunteered at
the museum in 1985 through 1991, when
she became the museum’s curator. She
earned her master’s degree in anthropology
from University of Albany, SUNY.
The Eiteljorg Museum of American
Indians and Western Art hired Scott
Shoemaker, PhD (Indiana Miami), as its
new Thomas G. and Susan C. Hoback
Curator of Native American Art, History,
and Culture. Shoemaker earned his
doctoral degree in American studies and
master’s degree in landscape architecture.
His research interests include Miami
language and ribbonwork.

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The Pablita Velarde Museum of Indian
Women in the Arts in Santa Fe is closing
its doors after the death of its founder
Margarete Bagshaw (Santa Clara Pueblo,
1964–2015).
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
is rotating artwork in its Art of the
Americas galleries. Its new selection from
the permanent collection will be on view
this summer.

GALLERIES
Scholars and Indigenous artists partnered
to create Tucum, an artist network with
a gallery in Santa Teresa, Rio Janeiro,
Brazil. Tucum also hosts an online store,
selling locally crafted items to benefit 15
Indigenous villages from the Amazon,
Cerrado, and Northeast Brazil. The
founders believe artwork such as jewelry,
basketry, and pottery help transmit
cultural values to the younger generations.
Members of the Kayapó tribe were the first
to join the project, followed by members
of the Kamayurá, Karajá, Kashinawa,
Krahô, Mehináku, Pataxó, Suruí, Ticuna,
and Waimiri-Atroarí tribes. For more
information, visit tucumbrasil.com.
The Winnipeg Art Gallery received
a $500,000 gift from TD Bank Group
to build its planned Inuit Art Center.
The bank, holder of one of the largest
corporate collections of Inuit art,
contributed the gift to fund an artist-inresidence program and printmaking studio.

ART FAIRS
The Heard Museum Guild held its
57th annual Indian Fair and Market
at the Heard Museum in Phoenix,
Arizona. Jeremy Frey (Passamaquoddy)
won Best of Show, his second at the
Heard Fair. Best of Class winners were
Vernon Haskie (Navajo), jewelry and
lapidary; Daryl Whitegeese (PojoaqueSanta Clara Pueblo), pottery; Orlando
Alli son (Gila River-Hopi), paintings,
drawings, graphics, and photography;
Alex Lewis (Cheyenne River Sioux),

wooden carvings; Nelson Tsosie (Navajo),
sculpture; Clarissa Rizal (Tlingit), textiles;
Kevin Pourier (Oglala Lakota), diverse art
forms; and Jeremy Frey, baskets.
The 2015 Southwest Indian Art Fair
(SWIAF) hosted by the Arizona State
Museum in Tucson, awarded Ronald
Honyouti (Hopi) Best of Show. Johnathan
Naranjo (Santa Clara Pueblo) won the
Legacy Award and both Jody Naranjo
(Santa Clara Pueblo) and Iva Honyestewa
(Hopi-Navajo) won acquisition awards.
An Award of Excellence was given to
one to four winners in each category:
Jessica Lomatewama (Hopi) and Stephanie
Lomatewama-Kayquoptewa (Hopi),
basketry; Charlene Reano (San Felipe
Pueblo), Fritz Casuse (Navajo), Weaver
Selina (Hopi), and Allen Aragon (Navajo),
jewelry; Ronald Honyouti (Hopi) and
Antone Honanie (Hopi), katsina carving;
Nuvadi Dawahoya (Hopi) and Carol Lujan
(Navajo), sculpture; Alberta Henderson
(Navajo), textiles; Kevin Horace Quannie
(Hopi-Navajo), Baje Whitethorne
(Navajo), and Mike Medicine Horse
Zillioux (Akimel O’odham-CheyennePawnee), 2-D art; and James Garcia (TewaHopi-Laguna), Jody Naranjo (Santa Clara
Pueblo), and Jordan Roller (Santa Clara
Pueblo), clay.

ART SHOWS
The Best of Show winner of the 2015
Art Under the Oaks Competitive Art
Show, sponsored by the Five Civilized
Tribes Museum in Muskogee, Oklahoma,
was Roy Boney Jr. (Cherokee Nation).
Classification winners were Vicki
Coppedge (Cherokee Nation), basketry/
traditional; Kristie Vann (Cherokee
Nation), basketry/commercial; Dorothy
Ice (United Keetoowah Band), textiles;
Sandy Fife Wilson (Muscogee Creek),
jewelry; Jimmy Gerald Stone (Seminole
Nation), graphics; Verna Bates (Cherokee
Nation), pottery; David Chaudoin
(Cherokee Nation), sculpture; Toby
Hughes (Cherokee Nation), cultural
items; Dylan Cavin (Choctaw Nation),
2-D miniatures; Ronda Moss (Cherokee
Nation), 3-D miniatures; Carolyn Pallett
(Cherokee Nation), beadwork; and Gary
Allen (Cherokee Nation), painting.