Suzanne Newman Fricke, PhD

suzanne@fricke.co.uk

 

Education:

Ph.D.   2003          University of New Mexico

                              Advisor:  Prof. Joyce Szabo

                              Dissertation:  “Institutionalizing Taste:  Kenneth

            Milton Chapman, the Indian Arts Fund, and the Development of

            Fine Art Pueblo Pottery”

 

M.A.    1992          University of Chicago

                                   

B.A.     1989          Mills College

 

Teaching Experience:

University of New Mexico, extended branch, 2003-2004:  adjunct professor, survey of Native American art and survey of art of the Southwest.  Responsible for all aspects of the class, including:  choosing the texts and the writing assignments; writing the syllabus, exams, and assignments; grading and monitoring graduate assistants; organizing images on Power Point for lectures; meeting with students; and assigning final grades

 

                              University of New Mexico, Department of Art History, 1993 to 2002:  Taught six sections of art history 101, 201, and 202 as a teaching assistant and an adjunct professor.  I was responsible for all aspects of the class, including:  writing the syllabus, exams, and assignments; grading and monitoring graduate assistants; pulling and organizing slides; meeting with students; and assigning final grades.  Worked as a graduate assistant for six sections of art history 101, 201, 202, and World Architecture; responsibilities included grading papers, exams, home works, and projects, conducting exam reviews, and meeting with students, and calculating final grades

 

                              August, 1994 to August, 1995:  Coordinator for the Contemporary Art Society

                              Organizing events highlighting the work of local artists and collectors, including a catered event called “A Movable Feast,” a series of home tours called “Living With/In Art,” “Fireside Chats” with various artists, studio visits to artist’s work spaces by artists including Larry Bell and Susan Wing, and gallery tours by scholars including Lucy Lippard

                                                     


Grants/Fellowships/Awards:

August, 1985          Southwest Regional Scholarship Award

 

May, 1989             Mary Laughlin Beardmore Award for Excellence in Art History

 

May, 1995             Research, Projects, and Travel Grant to visit the Newberry Library,

                              Chicago, Illinois

 

October, 1995       Native American Art Studies Association travel grant to attend

                              convention in Tulsa, Oklahoma

 

August, 1996          Rockefeller Archive Travel Grant to Rockefeller Archive Center in

                              Tarrytown, New York

 

October, 2000       RPT Grant to attend Southwest Art History Conference in Taos, New

                              Mexico

 

October, 2001       Friends of Art award for Graduate Art History Student Award

 

Publications: 

“Stop Signs at the Cultural Crossroads:  Public Art at the University of New Mexico.”

                              Tressa Berman, editor, No Deal! Indigenous Arts and the Politics of Possession.  (Seattle, Washington:  University of Washington Press, forthcoming)

 

“Christopher Colville,” Essay for University of New Mexico Graduate Student Catalog, January, 2000

 

“Eleanor Dickenson.” Connecting Conversations:  Interviews with 26 Bay Area Women Artists.  (Oakland, California:  Mills College Publications, 1987):  50-54

 

“Review of the Primal Spirit:  Ten Contemporary Japanese Sculptors,” Chicago Art Journal 1:1 (Spring, 1991):  41-42

 

 

Conferences/Presentations/Papers:

October, 2001       “Nampeyo and Maria in Pictures:  The Role of Fame in Pueblo

                              Pottery.”  Presented at University of New Mexico, Johnson Gallery,

                              for the Friends of Art award

 

October, 2000       “Familiarity=Fame=Talent:  How Fame Was Equated with Talent for

                              Twentieth Century Pueblo Potters.”  Presented at the Southwest Art

                              History Conference in Taos, New Mexico

 

October, 1999       “Not In My Backyard:  The Controversy over Bob Haozous’ Cultural

                              Crossroads.”  Presented at the Native American Art Studies

                              Association in Victoria, BC.

 

October, 1995       “Institutionalizing Taste:  Kenneth Chapman, The Indian Arts Fund,

                              and the Founding of the Laboratory of Anthropology.”  Presented at

                              the Native American Art Studies Association in Tulsa, Oklahoma

 

March, 1995          “Chance Encounter:  Kenneth Chapman’s Fateful Meeting with John

                              D. Rockefeller.” Presented at the “Southwest Symposium” at the

                              University of New Mexico

 

Guest Lectures: 

“Bob Haozous’ ‘Cultural Crossroads’,” Art of the Southwest, Prof. Elizabeth Hutchinson

 

“Palladio’s Villas and the Use of Musical Harmonies,” World Architecture, Prof. Lisa Shrenk

 

“The Symmetry of Greek Architecture,” Art History 201, Prof. Holly Barnett

 

 

Professional Service:

October, 2003       Reader for Graduate/Professional Student Grants

                             

Spring, 2002          University of New Mexico Graduate Student Art Show, organized by the Graduate Art Students Alliance

 

September, 1991 to March, 1992, Editor and writer for the Chicago Art Journal

 

Professional Affiliations:

College Art Association

Native American Art Studies Association

American Association of University Professors

 

Languages:

French:  Fluent, studied in college and at the Alliance Française, Paris, France for four months, 1990

Italian:  Moderate, studied at Eurocento, Florence, Italy, for three months, 1989

Spanish:  studied in college for 4 semesters

German:  studied in college for 4 semesters