Master woodworker Terry Evans stops by Medicine Man Gallery studio to speak with host Dr. Mark Sublette about his lifelong commitment to art and working in wood and leather. Leatherwork, farm work, and ultimately woodworking are all discussed, with an emphasis on education and the persistence necessary to succeed as a traveling artist in today's art fair market. From teaching for 40 years as a high school art teacher in Kansas City to being represented by Medicine Man Gallery, Terry's interestin...
Jan 08, 2020•55 min•Season 1Ep. 82
Christine Brindza, the James and Louise Glasser curator of art of the American West at Tucson Museum of Art stops by Medicine Man Gallery to discuss the role of museum curation and the path she took to in becoming a western art curator. Christine shares her upbringing and early years as a historical editor at the Whitney Western Art Museum in Cody, Wyoming. After a decade of working for some of the finest western museums and curating exhibits exploring our western roots, Christine took a positio...
Jan 01, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 81
Seasoned landscape painter and geological aficionado Merrill Mahaffey sits down with our host Dr. Mark Sublette to revisit the defining moments of his career as a painter and as a professor of the arts. Merrill tells of uranium mines and working as a cowboy in 1950's Colorado, as well as the various characters he met through his skill with the brush including (but not limited to) Fritz Scholder, Greg Kondos, Eric Fischl, Wayne Thiebaud, and Elaine Horowitz. We hear about his Grand Canyon paintin...
Dec 25, 2019•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 80
Plein air painter Gregory Hull stops by Medicine Man Gallery to explore the psychology of on-site painting. Greg shares stories of his youth, including a traumatic train crash that he and 7 others walked away from, as well as his days as a machinist assistant working for the railroad. Greg Hull is known for his Grand Canyon paintings both from deep inside the canyon to the rim and how an early life filled with camping and adventure led to the traveling nature. Excellent podcast for plein air pai...
Dec 18, 2019•51 min•Season 1Ep. 79
Terry Williams (Deixh Teexli), discusses his early life growing up in Seattle and having Bill Gates in his cub scouts. Terry is the owner of Inside Passage Arts in Skagway, AK, and sits down with host Dr. Mark Sublette to discuss the Inuit carvings that he has devoted his life to preserving and their future. We hear about Terry’s time as an artist resident in the Alaskan wilderness as well as his involvement in the silversmithing trade of the ’60s and ’70s. Terry goes into depth about the compli...
Dec 11, 2019•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 78
Native arts expert and gallery owner Al Anthony takes an hour out of his busy schedule to chat with his old friend Dr. Mark Sublette in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We get an inside look into Al’s days as a nuclear engineer for the USAF and how being stationed in New Mexico led him to Wright’s Trading Post in Albuquerque where he bought his first Maria Martinez bowl on layaway for two hundred dollars. Al recounts weekend trips to the New Mexico Pueblos and encounters with the most famous potters of our...
Dec 04, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 77
Bob Kapoun, the owner of the historic Shop of the Rainbow Man in Santa Fe New Mexico, discusses the factors that led him down the path of dealing in Native American art. His interest in taking pictures during the Vietnam war led to an appreciation of photography and cinema, ultimately leading to a degree from Southern Illinois University and connecting Bob to the world of renowned photographer Edward S. Curtis. Bob details his obsession with the culture and history of the Native Americans of the...
Nov 27, 2019•57 min•Season 1Ep. 76
Long-time Native American art dealer Chris Selser sits down with Dr. Mark Sublette during Indian Market in Santa Fe to reflect on 50 years of being involved in the Antique Native Arts industry. Selser discusses his upbringing and how several key events changed his trajectory into becoming an expert in Navajo weavings and jewelry. We hear about the romanticizing of Woodstock, and the proliferation of Native jewelry into the New York department stores in the 1970s. Chris discusses his 1981 New Yor...
Nov 20, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 75
Appraiser and author Scott Hale sits down with our host Dr. Mark Sublette to discuss his background in education and cinema, becoming a curator of private art collections, and finally the growing interest in authentic Native American items among millennials. Scott explains how his Grandfather ran a Native American art store at Hoover Dam in the 1930's and 40's. His mother Cindy Hale (also an appraiser) helped him carry the family torch and love for Indian arts. From analyzing Native Americans in...
Nov 13, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 74
Jim Jeter Native American dealer shares his amazing life story of forgery, war and redemption in the second episode of a two-part interview with Dr. Mark Sublette Well respected antique Indian Arts dealer Jim Jeter tells the story of his love of Native American art and Hispanic weavings. The son of a well-known actor James Jeter was raised in Southern California when a single arrowhead sparked the love of antique Indian art. Jim shares the intimate story about how he became a specialist in antiq...
Nov 06, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 73
Well respected antique Indian Arts dealer Jim Jeter tells the story of his love of Native American art and Hispanic weavings. The son of a well-known actor James Jeter was raised in Southern California when a single arrowhead sparked the love of antique Indian art. Jim shares the intimate story about how he became a specialist in antique Indian jewelry and how this gift lead him down the road of forgery and forgiveness. This is an amazing two-part episode that Jim shares including hitchhiking ac...
Oct 30, 2019•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 72
Michael Ettema, a former museum director for the Henry Ford Museum and Desert Caballeros Museum in Wickenburg shares his journey from training at Winterthur Museum to becoming a museum art director to gallery manager and finally art appraiser. He is the owner of Art Appraisals of Santa Fe.
Oct 23, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 71
Dallas based trader Michael McKissick sits down with host Mark Sublette during the Antique American Indian Art Show in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This episode of the Art Dealer Diaries covers a nearly 60 year long native art dealing career that begins with a pair of moccasins bought at a rodeo in the 1960's and continues to this day. Formerly a cryogenic systems designer, McKissick established a collection of Native American art that became his initial inventory after opening Waterbird Traders in the...
Oct 16, 2019•39 min•Season 1Ep. 70
Michael Haskell Indian Art and Spanish Colonial furniture dealer discuss his life story of how he got interested in the field fifty years ago, he's a third-generation Santa Barbara resident. Interesting story about the painter Don Perceval, Maynard Dixon, and Clay Lockett as well as buying old pawn off the Navajo reservation. Amazing story of how Michael Haskell tried to buy the C.G. Wallace collection.
Oct 09, 2019•53 min•Season 1Ep. 69
Tad Anderman shares his life story of growing up in the Southwest and his love of Indian Art. How he turns his passion for looking at Native American art at the Denver Art Museum into a profession. Tad takes us on his journey to Sydney Australia to open one of the first Native American Art galleries and the challenges involved in selling Indian Art in another country. Besides selling Native American Art Tad Anderman also has one of the largest collection of early Hopi Tiles and a family collecti...
Oct 02, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 68
Historian Jeff Hengesbaugh sits down with host Mark Sublette to discuss recreating his journey of being a current-day mountain man and fur trader into a Native American and Antique dealer. Mark and Jeff discuss his path from a self-taught anthropologist and the many trials he endured to make a living selling antique goods. Jeff's insight into the history of mountain man is not to be missed.
Sep 25, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 67
Jan Musial sits down with host Dr. Mark Sublette to discuss his love of Native American Art and how he became a dealer in the Indian art trade. Jan goes into depth about how being married to a Navajo woman changed his perspective on the art he had been collecting and selling. Jan worked as an LA County firefighter before transiting into Indian Arts. Jan explains his relationship with some of the best known Navajo painters including Harrison Begay, Shonto Begay, Gerald Nailor, Beatien Yazz and Ha...
Sep 18, 2019•51 min•Season 1Ep. 66
Kim Martindale, producer of such art shows as the LA Art Show and the Objects of Art and Antique Native American Show in Santa Fe sits down with our host Mark Sublette to discuss his life and career dedicated to the arts. Kim has been collecting Native American Art his entire life and gradually moved from the dealer's world to that of major art show promoter. The LA Art Show is one of the largest art fairs in the world.
Sep 11, 2019•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 65
Artist Kevin Kehoe discusses life growing up in New England and how his professional journey led him through Boston, Providence, Utah, Seattle, San Francisco, and New York, ultimately leading him back to Utah where he lives today. Kevin recounts his time conjuring up ad campaigns for the likes of automotive manufacturers like Saturn and how his design career helped shape his artistic process.
Aug 28, 2019•1 hr 35 min•Season 1Ep. 64
Celebrate Woodstock's 50th anniversary with legendary Rolling Stone and Rock n' Roll photographer Baron Wolman in this intimate interview with host Dr. Mark Sublette. Baron's journey from his teenage years, crossing police lines and eventually into a stint of espionage on behalf of the US government in East Berlin. His life-changing moment comes after meeting twenty-one-year-old Jann Wenner founder of the Rolling Stone Magazine and becoming their first photographer and working as the chief photo...
Aug 21, 2019•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 63
Historian and Museum director Steve Friesen takes a detour from his appearance at the Western Writers Association to drop by the Medicine Man Gallery studio. Mark and Steve take a fascinating journey into the life of the Western legend Buffalo Bill Cody and the many characters that would orbit the showman in his lifetime. Interesting and outright surprising details about the worldwide phenomenon "The Buffalo Bill Wild West Show" come to life with Steve illustrating the impact these traveling vau...
Aug 07, 2019•1 hr 11 min
Tim Yazzie stops by the Medicine Man Gallery studio to discuss his upbringing in New Mexico and the journey that led him to Tucson, Arizona where he lives today. Tim indulges us in the hardships of being a Native American silversmith (half Santo Domingo, a quarter San Felipe, and a quarter Navajo) in the 21st century and tells the story of his first job working with silver and turquoise inlay. From the Army to the Pueblo, this episode covers a lot of ground. For collectors and creators of jewelr...
Jul 31, 2019•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 61
Executive Editor of True West Magazine shares his life story and his love for history and western art since he was a kid. His amazing ride from radio host, cartoonist, and writer for the counter-culture magazine New Times for ten years. Bell discusses his art show and book on Billy the Kid.
Jul 24, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 60
Native American antique art dealer Michael Bradford travels to Tucson, Arizona to sit down with host Mark Sublette and talk about his experiences traveling the country searching for and selling Native American art and antiques. Michael discusses his time in the United States Navy and how a few life-changing moments turned a bull rider from a rodeo junky to a traveling antique expert. Family, native antiques, fine turquoise jewelry and the great art of barbeque are all topics on this episode of T...
Jul 17, 2019•51 min•Season 1Ep. 59
Expert framer and art dealer Michael Collier stops by Medicine Man Gallery to discuss his personal journey through the art world. Michael shares his connections with important artists including photographer Dan Budnik, painter/muralist Edith Hamlin, and the legendary Arizona artist Ed Mell (whose frames come directly from Collier). Michael also discusses how to design the perfect frame to fit each painting, as well the importance of preserving the legacies of master painters like Maynard Dixon a...
Jul 10, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 58
Highly regarded New York artist, Leonardo Drew discusses his latest work 'Navajo' and how he became an artist growing up in the projects. Leonardo explains his process of how and why he titles his art pieces using numbers and how his pieces form in his consciousness, then come to fruition. Anyone who is interested in art, more specifically contemporary sculpture, will love hearing from one of the top American artists working today.
Jul 03, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 57
Johnny D. Boggs shares his life story as an aspiring sportswriter and newspaper editor before finding his true calling as an author of historic fiction. His journey from the Carolinas to New Mexico is in itself a tale of westward expansion. Johnny shares what it takes to be an author of Western novels and his methods behind an award-winning career in the world of historical fiction. Johnny Boggs is an 8-time Spur Award-winning western writer, a record that won't soon be beaten. If you ever wonde...
Jun 26, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 56
Santa Fe, Italy, San Francisco, Phoenix, Central California, all are stops along the way for the modern sculptor. Otton Rigan explains shaping tons and tons of stone and the peril of working with 800lbs sculptures This is an enlightening interview for artists and collectors alike to understand the circuitous road to becoming a world-class artist.
Jun 19, 2019•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 55
Mark and Murray Arrowsmith, sons of the remarkable and influential trader Santa Fe Indian Art Trader Rex Arrowsmith, reflect on their father’s lasting contribution to the Native American art community. Story after story, these two unique individuals share the fantastic details of their upbringing in Santa Fe Native American art scene in the 1960 and '70s and how Rex help shape Santa Fe into the art market of today. From trading with famous San Ildefonso potters Maria Martinez and Popovi Da, to h...
Jun 12, 2019•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 54
James Woodside painted a series of landscapes in Antartica upon receiving a grant from the National Science Foundation. Mark Sublette saw them in an issue of American Artist and knew he was destined to show this artist in his gallery. 15 years and countless paintings later, Woodside stops by Medicine Man Gallery to share his story with host Mark Sublette. In this episode you'll learn about the New York art community in the early 1980s, the artistic merit of being an educator, and the practice of...
Jun 05, 2019•54 min•Season 1Ep. 53
