Director, Chair: Kenneth Johnson

Kenneth Johnson is a contemporary Native American designer and metalsmith with an extensive career.

Director, President: Rachel de W. Wixom

Rachel has led the development of the current center from idea to reality.

Director, Secretary: Vanessa Elmore

Vanessa Elmore is an art appraiser and has been in the art industry for over twenty years.

Director: Randy J. Brokeshoulder

Randy J. Brokeshoulder is of Hopi, Navajo, and Absentee Shawnee heritage. He is a third-generation katsina carver and the great-grandson to Guy Maktima of Hotevilla—Third Mesa, Arizona. He currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as a finance banker and artist.

Director: Jessa Rae Growing Thunder

Haŋ mitakuyapi. Suŋgina Duzaham Wiŋyan emakiapi. Mnisda Wakiyaŋ Iŋga tiwahe etaŋhaŋ ouhepi. Damakoda nakun Nakoda, de Tatanka Oyate. Cante waste yuha, ciyuzihapi. (Greetings our relatives. My name is Jessa Rae Growing Thunder. The Growing Thunder family comes from...

Director: Gerald G. Stiebel

Gerald G. Stiebel has been a dealer for over fifty years specializing in European arts.

Director: William Wilson

Will Wilson is a Diné photographer who spent his formative years in the Navajo Nation.

Advisory Council

Teri Greeves, Advisory Board Director

Teri Greeves was born on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming and is of Italian-American and Comanche descent.

Laurence A. G. Moss, Advisory Board Director

Laurence A. G. Moss was raised in western Canada, Dr. Moss has lived and worked principally in western North America, Pacific Asia, and Central Europe. His North American base was Santa Fe, New Mexico from 1986 to 2006 when he returned to the Pacific Northwest with...

Sallyann Paschall

Enrolled in the Cherokee Nation and raised in Oklahoma, Sallyann Milam Paschall is a Santa Fe, New Mexico painter, and printmaker. She has shown her work extensively and has won numerous awards, particularly at the Heard Museum Indian Market in Phoenix and Santa Fe...