Arizona State Museum, Southwest Native Nations Advisory Board

§ Sitting in on board meetings covering updated bi-laws, and guidelines for exhibits and storage. Two representatives from the following tribes -- Salt River Pima- Maricopa Indian Community, Yavapai-Apache Tribe, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, Hopi Tribe, Tohono O’odham Nation, Pascua Yaqui Tribe, Fort Mojave Tribe, Gila River Indian Community, Ak-Chin Indian Community, Cocopah Tribe, Colorado River Indian Tribes, Fort Yuma-Quechan Tribe, Havasupai Tribe, Hualapai Tribe, Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians, Navajo Nation, San Carlos Apache Tribe, San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe, and White Mountain Apache attend and vote. Important issues discussed are strategic planning, endowments, funding, and NAGPRA compliance.

Old Pascua Museum & Yaqui Culture Center

§ Processing a collection of over 4,000 photographs documenting the building of the Pascua Center, celebrations and other activities at the center, along with other photographic documentation of events in community members lives, including work, school, and artwork and exhibits. The collection includes ephemera, as in flyers, newsprint and other publications on the Pascua Yaqui community.

Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona

• §  W. Eugene Smith Photographic Collection- created index for 190 boxes of work prints, photographs, and negatives that document the life and work of W. Eugene Smith. Created an inventory of the number of negatives the Center has of Eugene Smith’s work. Also helped with identification of prints and negatives for Eugene Smith Big Book Project.

• §  Gary Winogrand- reprocessed negatives, identified photos

• §  Arthur Bell- created finding aid and reestablished hierarchical series allotted by previous archivists.

• §  Cataloged archival collections using original MARC, AACR2/DACS standards, and descriptive and subject headings. Inputted records into OCLC.

• §  Marion Post Wolcott- integrated the last of Wolcott’s donation to the Center after her death in 1990.

• §  Joe Deal-conducted original inventory after acquisition re-housed material to initiate processing; created a processing plan; established hierarchical series, to create finding aid. After completion I processed Joe Deal from acquisition to access.

• §  Rehoused photographic materials including fine art prints, work prints, negatives, and slides in various collections that document the life and works of various photographers.

• §  Assist researchers with inquiries about collection holdings. Ensured that patrons use materials appropriately in order to ensure preservation of artifacts.

  Heard Museum

• §  Processed collections for the NEA grant Master Works Collection. This collection includes over 100 Contemporary Native artists from such mediums as pottery, weaving, silversmith works, Painting, photography and sculpture. This collection required archiving all photographic and manuscript materials documenting each artist work by arranging it, creating files and finding aids.

• §  For the Master Works Collection, it was necessary to create multipage pdfs of exhibition catalogs. This collection is made available digitally through Argus and ContentDM.

• §  Processed and archived over 600 slides documenting the "Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House: Honoring Native America" White House lawn installation and exhibition. Processing each artist contribution documented through 35mm slides and adding collection description to the installation finding aid.

• §  Processed an accretion to the Jonathon Wittenberg Collection. Over 90 fine art prints from his book “Navajo Nation 1950: Traditional Life in Photographs”. This collection was also exhibited at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock. A letter of receipt of gift was written to J. Wittenberg, the prints were processed, and the finding aid for the accretion amended.

• §  La Posada Hotel acquisition was inventoried, letter of receipt of gift was written, items were archived physically and digitally, with photographs. Identification of origin of some items was needed.

• §  Cataloged over 2000 photographs from the Eagle Eye Press collection and added all to the pathfinder (finding aid) of the collection.

  American Indian Film Gallery, University of Arizona

§ Researched archival films about Native American in order to ensure accurate representation of cultural heritage within metadata, establish provenance, and enable access to collections.

o Cherokee Films: Parade (Self documentation); W.W. Keeler Phillips 66 (PSA for National Congress of American Indians); The Rivers Still Flow (documentary by Alan Shilin)

o Ojibwa/Chippewa/Saulteaux Film: Bay Mills Indian Community 1 & 2 (Self Documentation); Grand Portage Reservation 1-8 (Cultural Heritage Self - Documentation)

o Oneida Film: All Tribes Indian Center (Chicago “Eye On America” program)

o Sioux: Fallen Eagle (documentary by Alan Shilin)

v Lower Sioux Film: Lower Sioux 1-5 (Cultural Heritage Self Documentation)

• §  Created and establish descriptive tags, folksonomies, and controlled vocabulary to ensure access to researchers

• §  Examine marginalizing dialogue in the films to reframe Native culture and lifeways more accurately

• §  Worked in a digital environment: http://www.aifg.arizona.edu/

• §  Presented research based on work conducted at the Film Gallery at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Annual Conference.

  Arizona Historical Society

• §  Conducted in depth research on selected photographs in order to provide historical reference points for The Mexican Heritage Project.

• §  Extracted metadata from the collections of the Manzo, Elias, Leon, Peyron, Aragon, Gradillas and Montiel families. My research also includes research on photos of the Felix, Laos, Flores and Esparza families. This research helped complete the information made accessible for patrons.