Hartman Lomawaima to Speak on Curtis Exhibit
Released: October 5, 2006
Hartman Lomawaima, director of the Arizona State Museum, will give a lecture about the Edward S. Curtis exhibit, “Sacred Legacy: Edward S. Curtis and The North American Indian,” at 6 p.m., Tuesday. Oct. 18, in the Greenhill Center of the Arts room 30 on behalf of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s Native American Student Organization, Crossman Gallery and the Whitewater Arts Alliance.
A Hopi from the village of Sipalovi, Ariz., Lomawaima completed his graduate studies at Harvard and was appointed to the Board of Overseer’s Committee of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Soon after, he accepted an administrative appointment in the graduate division at Stanford where he continued post-graduate studies in education and anthropology and served as senior administrative officer of the Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley from 1980-1988. Lomawaima, along with wife K. Tsianina Lomawaima, relocated to Arizona where he was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Association of Museums and became director of the Arizona State Museum, an affiliate of the University of Arizona.
Lomawaima’s studies include the development and organization of American Indian, Alaska Native and First Nations museums and heritage centers, American Indian contributions to the history of U.S. transportation with focus on Southwestern Indian communities in the building of the railways, and applications of early Spanish Colonial documents in developing a documentary history of Hopi-Spanish relations.
Lomawaima’s publication contributions include the “Encyclopedia of North American Indians” and the “Encyclopedia of American History.” His works in progress include contributions to “The State of Native America” and “Portraits of a People,” a manuscript on the imagery of Edward S. Curtis. He has also served as principal consultant and humanities scholar for the documentary “Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian,” currently showing at the Crossman Gallery.
The exhibit, “Sacred Legacy: Edward S. Curtis and The North American Indian,” continues through Oct. 22 and showcases 70 images from an ongoing European tour and from the archive of the personal collection of Christopher Cardozo.
For more information about the exhibit, tickets and events visit www.whitewaterarts.org or contact Crossman Gallery Director Michael Flanagan at (262) 472-5708 or flanagam@uww.edu.
- Jonathan Kozlowksi,kozlowskjd05@uww.edu
