The Arizona State Museum's Southwest Indian Art Fair (SWIAF) offers recognition
and awards to artists whose work is judged to be of exceptional merit. The
goals of the jury process are to support excellence in the arts and to offer
all participating artists opportunity for recognition from leading professional
figures who have knowledge of both cultural and craft practices common to
Native American art.
Traci Morris-Carlsten
Stuart Johnson
Elmer Satala
Marco Basurto
Hartman Lomawaima
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This year an invited panel of expert jurors selected artists for 32 awards
of excellence. Jurors were identified by a committee composed of ASM/SWIAF
staff. As with past fairs, the 2005 SWIAF jury for adult entries was composed
of established working Native American artists and a non-native arts professional.
These jurors reflect a cross section of cultural perspectives and artistic
disciplines. Purchase Awards were chosen by ASM Collections staff.
2005 SWIAF Adult Category Jurors
Traci L. Morris-Carlsten, Chickasaw
Nation. Ph.d. candidate in American Indian Studies with doctoral thesis on
Apache artist Bob Haozous. Morris-Carlsten brings more than a decade of familiarity
with Native American arts and is a past manager of Bahti Indian Arts in Tucson,
Arizona.
Stuart Johnson, Owner/Operator of Settlers
West, a leading contemporary southwest arts gallery. Johnson is an avid collector
of Indian Arts and for 30 years, an expert in two-dimensional art - including
traditional oil and acrylic painting and print-making.
Elmer Satala, Jr., Hopi silversmith
and winner of the 2003 Best of Show award at SWIAF. Satala Jr. also serves
as a Native American advisor to the steering committee for SWIAF. His work
is well known for its high quality finish and sets a standard for overlay
technique. Satala graciously declined entering this year's competition in
order to contribute his time and energy as a juror.
Youth Awards Juror
Marco Basurto, Yaqui sculptor. His expertise
in judging creative developments among the youth entries is based on years
of experience of working with Native children. He is currently working as
a 3-D art instructor with the Tucson Unified School District
ASM Purchase Awards Jurors
Hartman Lomawaima, Arizona State Museum
Director, Hopi, selected the winner of the Museum Director's Award. Lomawaima
was responsible for initiating this new award for the 2003 competition. His
experience as an artisan includes traditional Katsina doll carving and silversmithing.
Suzanne Griset, Head of Collections
at ASM, combines knowledge of Collections needs with expertise in many crafts
to help select this year's Purchase Awards.
Diane Dittemore. Curator of Ethnographic
Materials for ASM. Has extensive knowledge of ASM's broad contemporary and
historic collections.
Arizona State Museum offers thanks to the 2005 SWIAF Jury for their commitment
to sustain the high standards SWIAF has developed over its 11 year history.
This event also would not have been possible without the high quality of
work offered for review by our participating artists (contributing a record
199 entries). SWIAF offers the highest value in cash awards in the region.
This is made possible through the dedicated support of many community and
business sponsors. Our congratulations to all the winning artists and to
all submitting artists for making this competition a challenging and meaningful
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