INDEX Berkeley was a Blast! Pablita Velarde Award J.J. Brody Honour Award Board Elections NAASA Online into 1999 Letter from the President '99 Topic Proposals 1997-99 Board Member

Newsletter Volume XII, No.1 February 1998 Board Elections At the NAASA business meeting held October 17, 1997 in Berkeley farewells went to outgoing Vice-President, Jackson Rushing, and also to Ruth Phillips, Tom Haukaas, Aleta Ringlero, and Robin Wright. Colleen Cutschall was re-elected President by acclamation. Jonathan Batkin was re-elected to the board as Vice-President. Robin Wright has agreed to act as a NAASA Historian to assist us in developing long term documentation of the association. This is currently a volunteer position established by the board at its planning meeting on Oct. 16, 1997. Welcome to all new board members, Janeen Antoine, Kathleen Ash-Milby, Candace Greene, Barbara Hail, and Nancy Mithlo. Following are previously unpublished bios of new board members. Nancy Marie Mithlo, Chiricahua Apache, is Professor of Museum Studies at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She received her Ph.D. In Cultural Anthropology from Stanford University in 1993, writing on the role of contemporary American Indian artists. Her classes at the University of New Mexico and Santa Fe Community College include Native American Folklore and Contemporary American Indian Ethnohistory. As curator of "Lost OâKeeffes; Women, Children and Other So-Called Primitives" at the IAIA Museum this summer, Mithlo interviewed and selected works of four IAIA alumnae from the permanent collection. Barbara Hail - "As a museum professional for 30 years, I have had extensive administrative experience as Curator and later Associate, Executive, and Deputy Director of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University. During this time I have been principal investigator of more than a dozen grants and supervised innumerable exhibits, my personal research concentrated on North American ethnographic materials, particularly those of the Plains and Subarctic. My undergraduate and Master of Arts degrees in history are from Cornell University, and I have pursued further graduate studies in both history and anthropology at Columbia and Brown Universities. Increasingly the museum world is learning to collaborate on research and exhibition projects with the native people whose ancestors produced the collections within our walls. Presently, I am participating through an NEH grant with 12 Kiowa and Comanche elders and younger bead artists to produce a travelling exhibition and catalogue on the cultural significance of late 19th century lattice cradles. My previous publications have included a number of articles and catalogue essays, as well as the books Hau, Kola!, an analysis of Plains material culture in quill, bead and paint based on the collections of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology; and with Kate Duncan, Out of the North, an analysis of the late 19th and 20th century traditional arts of the central Subarctic. Within NAASA, I am especially interested in strengthening collaboration between museums, scholars and artists, in encouraging the scholarly participation of tribal museum professionals within this organization, and in keeping scholarship in native American art and anthropology in the forefront of both disciplines.