Kathleen Ash-Milby is curator of Native American art at the Portland Art Museum, and the curator of the exhibition Dakota Modern: Tthe Art of Oscar Howe. As associate curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian she was the editor of HIDE: Skin as Material and Metaphor (NMAI, 2010) and co-editor of Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist (NMAI, 2015), with David Penney. Recent publications include essays in Art in America, Art Journal and Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw (Pascale, Mark, Esther Adler, and Édouard Kopp, eds, Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New York: The Museum of Modern Art; Houston: The Menil Collection, 2021). She received two Secretary of the Smithsonian’s Excellence in Research awards for her work and organized numerous exhibitions. She received her MA in Art History from the University of New Mexico and is a member of the Navajo Nation.
Bill Anthes is a professor in the Art Field Group at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, and the author of the books Native Moderns: American Indian Painting, 1940–1960 (2006) and Edgar Heap of Birds (2015) both published by Duke University Press. His essays and reviews have been published in American Indian Quarterly, Art Journal, Visual Anthropology Review, and other journals, edited collections, and exhibition catalogs. He has received fellowships and awards from the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center, the Center for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University, the Rockefeller Foundation/Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, and the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program. Anthes received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in American Studies.
