Michael Ettema: Santa Fe Art Appraiser - Epi. 71, Host Dr. Mark Sublette

10/23/19 • 58 min

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.

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Michael McKissick: Native Arts Dealer - Epi. 70, Host Dr. Mark Sublette

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 1980's. Michael goes on to discuss the journey that the love of Native American art has taken him on and what's in store for the future of the industry.

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Jim Jeter (Part 1): Saltillo Sarape Expert & Native Art Dealer - Epi 72. Host 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 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 across North Africa to his combat mission as an intelligence officer in Vietnam and the difficulties he experienced after the war.