Associate Curator
National Museum of the American Indian - George Gustav Heye Center
Smithsonian Institution
One Bowling Green, MRC 556
New York City NY 10004
Email: ashmilbyk at si.edu
Current or Projected Exhibits
"Off the Map: Landscape in the Native Imagination" (March-September 2007)
Recent Publications
“Contemporary Native American Art in the Twenty-First Century: Overcoming the Legacy.” European Review of Native American Studies, 19:1, 2005.
Contemporary Native American Art: Reflections after Lewis and Clark. Missoula: The University of Montana Press for Montana Museum of Art & Culture, 2005.
“Finding Our Way: Negotiating Community in Contemporary Native Art.” In Making a Noise: Aboriginal Perspectives on Art, Art History, Critical Writing and Community. Banff, Alberta: Banff International Curatorial Institute, Walter Phillips Gallery, 2005.
“Still in the Shadows: Native American Art in the 21st Century.” In Transcultural New Jersey: Diverse Artists Shaping Culture and Communities. New Brunswick: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2004.
“The Indian as ‘Artist’: Native American Art at the Rockwell Museum of Western Art.” In People, Places and Ideas: The Rockwell Museum of Western Art. Corning, NY: Rockwell Museum of Western Art, 2001.
“Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nuñez: an Indian Princess Painter.” In Painters, Patrons and Identity: Essays in Honor of J. J. Brody and the University of New Mexico, Joyce M. Szabo, ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001.
“Lorenzo Clayton.” In Contemporary Masters, The Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, Vol. I, Indianapolis: Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, 1999.
——, Eulalie H. Bonar and D. Y. Begay. “Woven by the Grandmothers: Nineteenth-Century Navajo Textiles from the National Museum of the American Indian: Three Perspectives on a Museum Project.” Native Peoples Magazine (9:4): 36-42, 1996.
“Emblems of Continuity and Change: A Comparison and Analysis of Pre-Reservation and Reservation Period Eagle-Feather Headdresses.” Masters Thesis. University of New Mexico, 1994.
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