Native American Art Studies Association

INDEX
...2001 Conference
...Program
...Call for Papers
...Board Nominations
...Scholarships
...from the President
...Noteworthy

Newsletter
Volume XIII, No. 3
April 2001

Noteworthy

The Seattle Art Museum has hired Dr. Barbara Brotherton as Native American Art Curator. Dr. Brotherton received her Ph.D. in art history at the University of Washington in 1994. She is currently Associate Professor of Art at Western Michigan State University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where most recently she curated Images for the New Millennium, an exhibition that featured the active participation of 11 contemporary artists from across North America, including Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Truman Lowe. She will start her new job at the Seattle Art Museum in June, 2001.

Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, has appointed Dr. Allan J. Ryan as New Sun Chair in art and culture, the first university research chair in Canada to specialize in Aboriginal art and culture. Dr. Ryan received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of British Columbia and is the author of The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native American Art. The goal of the New Sun Chair position, according to Natalie Luckyj, Director of Carleton Universityís School of Canadian Studies, is to enable the development of a generation of scholars in the field of Aboriginal art and culture.

The University of South Dakota Art Galleries is organizing an exhibition entitled, The Arthur Amiotte Retrospective: Continuity and Diversity. The exhibition consists of seventy paintings, fabric pieces and collages created between the late 1960s and the present by internationally acclaimed Lakota artist and former NAASA Honoree, Arthur Amiotte. The exhibition is supported by a major illustrated catalogue and will travel to various venues through April, 2003. For information concerning the exhibition and to inquire possibly hosting this exhibition contact: John A. Day, Director; University Art Galleries; University of South Dakota; 414 East Clark St.; Vermillion, SD 57069. Phone: 605-677-5481.