The Jurors
Invited Jurors
Dr. Bruce Bernstein is executive director of the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, the presenting organization of Santa Fe Indian Market. From 1997 to 2007, Dr. Bernstein served as assistant director for research and collections at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Previously, he was the director and chief curator at Santa Fe's Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology. He also held positions at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian and the University of New Mexico's Maxwell Museum of Anthropology. Dr. Bernstein holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in anthropology from the University of New Mexico.
Anthony Lovato is fifth generation from Kewa Pueblo (formerly known as Santo Domingo Pueblo) and the son of notable lapidary artist Mary Coriz Lovato and grandson of tufa caster and silversmith Santiago Leo Coriz. A graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, Mr. Lovato is a multi-award winning master of tufa casting known for his decorated holloware and fabricated vessels. He is best known for corn maiden pendants and large-scale canteens. His unique jewelry shows both traditional and contemporary style. While tufa casting is his specialty, Mr. Lovato has extensive knowledge of and deep appreciation for all jewelry making techniques and has a discerning eye for Native American art of all media. His pieces have been featured at New York’s Museum of Natural History in the exhibit, “Totems to Turquoise,” and are featured in the exhibit catalog of the same name. He has received awards from the Heard Museum’s Indian Fair & Market, Red Earth Native American Cultural Festival, Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Arts and Crafts Show, and the Southwest Museum’s Indian Art Show.
Andrew Higgins records Pam Lujan-Hauer's comments on a winning piece.Pam Lujan-Hauer (Taos Pueblo) studied pottery making at Santa Fe’s Institute of American Indian Arts and was inspired and taught by her great aunts Josephine Ortiz and Anita Lujan, both highly regarded traditional Pueblo potters. She began pottery making full time in 1989 and has since participated in various Indian art shows. She herself now inspires others through her passion for teaching and demonstrating. Awarded several artist residencies at various New Mexico schools, she taught pottery courses at the University of New Mexico and at the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute in the early 2000s. She continues to conduct numerous workshops throughout New Mexico and Arizona, at annual children’s workshops through the Harwood Art Center, and through the Maxwell Museum’s summer programs. She is currently a presenter for the New Mexico Humanities Council “Chautauqua” program. Ms. Lujan-Hauer demonstrates pottery making at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, at the New Mexico State Fair Indian Village, periodically at the Maxwell Museum in Albuquerque, and at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in Santa Fe.
Youth Award Juror
Dawn Cromwell was the founding program coordinator of the Southwest Indian Art Fair.
The program as we know it today is largely due to her initial vision. In addition to her twenty-four years of experience developing multicultural education programs in the public programs division of Arizona State Museum, Dawn holds two degrees in fine art from The University of Arizona and has a broad background in the studio arts. She has been a leader and mentor for local, state and regional education programs as well. She has served as a past juror for the Youth Awards category at SWIAF and is a patron of all the arts including music, creative writing, studio arts, theatre , architecture and interior design.
Dawn has had a long commitment to youth arts and embraces the philosophy, “If we believe the creative process is an essential component for living, then we must nurture this in our youth today.”
Acquisition Award Jurors
Patrick Lyons, Head of Collections and Acting Associate Director at ASM, combines a knowledge of the needs of the ASM collections with expertise in many crafts to help select this year's purchase awards.
(Left to right) Patrick Lyons, Dawn Cromwell, and Diane Dittemore review youth entries.Diane Dittemore, Ethnological Collections Curator at ASM, has extensive knowledge of ASM's broad contemporary and historic collections.
Andrew Higgins, Assistant Ethnological Collections Curator at ASM, has extensive knowledge of American Indian arts and crafts, particularly pre-1940 and cutting edge contemporary work.
Susan Beckerman, Doreen Burbank, and Jean Nerenberg, who constitute this year's Friends of the ASM Collections Acquisition Award Committee, are avid students as well as collectors of Southwest Indian art.
Photos by Jannelle Weakly