Board of Directors
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: 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 Directors
Dorothy H. Bracey, Advisory Board Director
Dorothy H. Bracey is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Comparative Legal Systems at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. She holds a AB from the College of William and Mary, a Ph.D. from Harvard University, and a MLS from Yale Law...
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...
Patricia M. Newman, Advisory Director
Patty, as Nonprofit Leader & Philanthropist, divides her time between Santa Fe and Southern California and has worked for decades with charitable, cultural and civic causes to improve the lives of those in her communities. She has broad nonprofit leadership...
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...
Honorary Directors
Emeritus Directors
Staff
Rachel de W. Wixom, President, Executive Director
Rachel de W. Wixom’s extensive experience includes ten years as Head of Publications of the Whitney Museum of American Art
Bess Murphy, PhD, Curator
Bess assists in developing and coordinating public programs including workshops, conversations, research visits and demonstrations with Native American artists.
Samantha Tracy, Collections Manager
Samantha Tracy is Diné from Fort Defiance, Arizona, and is a recent graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), where she received a BFA in Museum Studies.
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