2017 JURIED COMPETITION JUDGES

I: JEWELRY AND LAPIDARY WORK

JANIS LYON. Longtime collector of Native American jewelry, pottery, and artifacts, along with her husband, Dennis Lyon.

NORMAN L. SANDFIELD. Internationally known collector and antiques dealer based in Chicago, Illinois. He co-curated two Heard Museum exhibits and coauthored the accompanying catalogues.

KENNETH WILLIAMS JR. (NORTHERN ARAPAHOSENECA). Beadwork artist and manager of the Case Trading Post at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe. He won the 2014 Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market Best of Show award and Best of Classification in 2016 for his contribution to a collaborative work.

II: POTTERY

JILL GILLER. Gallery owner, Native American Collections, Denver, Colorado. She frequently judges American Indian art markets.

GARTH JOHNSON. Curator of Ceramics at the Arizona State University (ASU) Art Museum and ASU Art Museum

Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, Arizona. He is also an artist, writer, and educator. Johnson currently serves on the board of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA).

DWIGHT P. LANMON. Has published several books on Pueblo pottery, including The Pottery of Zuni Pueblo and The Pottery of Acoma Pueblo. Lanmon was CEO and director of the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library in Wilmington, Delaware, and the director and a curator of European glass at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York.

III: PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, GRAPHICS, & PHOTOGRAPHY

KATHLEEN ASH-MILBY (NAVAJO). Associate curator at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) George Gustav Heye Center, New York. She co-curated the exhibition Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist that traveled to the Heard Museum in 2016. She has written numerous publications.

GILBERT VICARIO. Chief curator, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. He has curated several exhibits, including Made in Mexico and Field, Road, Cloud: Art and Africa.

STEVEN J. YAZZIE (NAVAJO-LAGUNA).

Interdisciplinary artist. His work has been in numerous regional, national, and international exhibitions, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; NMAI George Gustav Heye Center, New York, as well as the Heard Museum.

IV: PUEBLO CARVINGS & V: SCULPTURE

JOHN BLESSINGTON. Katsina figure collector and member of the Heard Museum Council and Heard Museum Guild.

DOUG HYDE (NEZ PERCE-ASSINIBOINECHIPPEWA). An award-winning sculptor of national and international acclaim. Phoenix Home & Garden named him “Master of the Southwest,” and he is a fellow of the National Sculpture Society. His bronze, Tribute to Code Talkers, is a Phoenix landmark. The Heard Museum has several of his works, including Intertribal Greeting.

SUSAN H. TOTTY. Owner, Blue Sage Gallery, Cave Creek, Arizona, and author of The Dedicated Collectors: The David and Barbara Wilshin Collection

VI: WEAVINGS & TEXTILES

JED FOUTZ. Owner, Shiprock Santa Fe Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is a fifth-generation trader who grew up on the Navajo Reservation and has a deep interest in Native American art, especially textiles.

BILL HOWARD. Longtime collector and scholar of Native American textiles. Howard is a member of the Heard Museum Council.

CAROL ANN MACKAY. Collector and Heard Museum life trustee. She is a noted scholar of Navajo textiles, and the Heard Museum has featured her significant collection in two exhibitions.

VII: DIVERSE ARTS & X: BEADWORK AND QUILLWORK

CHRISTINA E. BURKE. Curator of Native and Non-Western Art, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has contributed to several traveling exhibitions and the award-winning, online exhibition, Lakota Winter Counts. She has also served on the board of Native American Art Studies Association (NAASA).

JOHN P. LUKAVIC, PHD. Associate curator of Native Arts, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado. He curated Super Indian: Fritz Scholder, 1967–1980 and co-edited the exhibition catalogue. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on Southern Cheyenne moccasin makers.

GAYLORD TORRENCE. Senior curator of American Indian Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. He wrote The American Indian Parfleche: A Tradition of Abstract Painting and curated The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky, which opened in Paris, France, and traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

VIII: BASKETS

NANCY J. BLOMBERG. Chief curator and curator of Native Arts, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado. Blomberg has organized dozens of exhibitions and has overseen a complete renovation of the American Indian galleries at the Denver Art Museum. She has published extensively, including her major publication, Navajo Textiles: The William Randolph Hearst Collection.

JERRY COWDREY. Longtime collector of American Indian art. Cowdrey is a docent at the Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona; the Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Wickenburg, Arizona; and the Heard Museum.

LARRY DALRYMPLE. Collector of Indian baskets for more than two decades. An educational consultant, Dalrymple has authored two books, Indian Basketmakers of California and the Great Basin and Indian Basketmakers of the Southwest: The Living Art and Fine Tradition.

IX: PERSONAL ATTIRE

JESSICA R. METCALFE, PHD (TURTLE MOUNTAIN CHIPPEWA). Owner of the Beyond Buckskin Boutique, Belcourt, North Dakota. Metcalfe hosts the website Beyond Buckskin, which focuses on all topics related to Native American fashion.

DENNITA SEWELL. Curator of Fashion Design, Phoenix Art Museum. She also served as the collections manager at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York City. She is in the process of developing a new fashion degree program for ASU School of Art, Tempe, Arizona.

KAREN KRAMER. Curator of Native American and Oceanic Art and Culture, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts. Kramer has helped produce ten major exhibitions on Native American art and culture. She recently curated Native Fashion Now and Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art.

XI: CUTTING-EDGE

MARK BAHTI. Gallery owner, Bahti Indian Arts, Tucson, Arizona, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has written numerous books about American Indian art and jewelry. He serves on the board of the Tucson Indian Center, the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) Foundation, the Amerind Foundation, and Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA).

WARREN MONTOYA (SANTA ANA-SANTA CLARA PUEBLOS). Artist and owner of Rezonate Art, as well as executive director of Rezilience Indigenous Arts Experience. He is a painter, illustrator, photographer, graphic artist, and fashion designer, based in Bernalillo, New Mexico.

ELLEN TAUBMAN. Curator, Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation, a three-part exhibition series featuring the cutting edge in contemporary Native American and Inuit art. She is currently organizing an exhibit called Redefine, scheduled for spring 2019 at the Heard Museum. She previously served as the vice president at Sotheby’s in charge of American Indian, Inuit, and Oceanic art.