The Biden Administration has made the following announcement:
Cultural Property Advisory Committee
The Cultural Property Advisory Committee
reviews requests for import restrictions submitted to the United States by
foreign governments, considers proposals to extend existing agreements and
emergency actions, carries out ongoing review of current import restrictions,
and provides reports of its findings and recommendations to the Department of
State.
The Convention on Cultural Property
Implementation Act established the 11-member presidentially appointed Committee
to ensure that the U.S. government receives advice from diverse public
interests in cultural property matters. The Committee includes two members who
represent the interests of museums; three members who are expert in
archaeology, anthropology, ethnology, or related fields; three members who are
expert in the international sale of cultural property; and three members who
represent the interest of the general public. The Cultural Heritage Center
serves as the secretariat for Committee and convenes and facilitates the
Committee’s quarterly meetings.
Alexandra Jones,
Chair, Cultural Property Advisory Committee
Dr. Alexandra Jones, Founder and Chief Executive
Officer of Archaeology in the Community, is an education leader focused on
community outreach and service. Jones is currently Professor of Practice in
History and Archaeology at Goucher College. She worked for PBS’s television
show “Time Team America” as the Archaeology Field School Director, where she
directed field schools for junior high and high school students at each of the
sites for the 2013 season. She obtained dual Bachelor of Arts degrees from
Howard University in History and Anthropology in 2001 and a Master of Arts
degree in History from Howard University in 2003. She then attended University
of California, Berkeley for a Master of Arts and Ph.D. in Anthropology with a
concentration in Historical Archaeology in 2010. Jones serves on the Board for
the Society of Black Archaeologists, the District of Columbia’s Historic
Preservation Review Board, the Board of Directors of the St. Croix
Archaeological Society, and is an Academic Trustee for the Archaeological
Institute of America.
Alex W. Barker,
Member, Cultural Property Advisory Committee
Alex W. Barker is a museum anthropologist and
archaeologist focusing on issues of cultural heritage, iconography, and the
rise of social complexity. A graduate of the Getty Museum Leadership Institute,
Barker serves as Director of the Arkansas Archeological Survey, and has
previously held leadership positions at the University of Missouri Museum of
Art and Archaeology, the Milwaukee Public Museum, and the Dallas Museum of
Natural History. He has experience in both domestic and international cultural
property issues, served on the national Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act Review Committee from 2011-2015, and coordinated an
international antiquities documentation project in collaboration with the
Capitoline Museum in Rome. He is a peer-elected Expert Member of the
International Council on Monuments and Sites International Scientific Committee
on Archaeology and Heritage Management and the International Scientific
Committee on Earthen Architectural Heritage. He has received national awards
for research from the Society for American Archaeology and for service from the
Society for American Archaeology and the American Alliance of Museums. Barker
is a former President of both the Council for Museum Anthropology and the
American Anthropological Association. Barker received a BA from Marquette
University, MA from Wichita State University, and PhD from the University of
Michigan.
Andrew Lamarche
Connors, Member, Cultural Property Advisory Committee
Andrew Connors is currently the Director of the
Albuquerque Museum, where he previously served as Curator of Art from 2009
through 2018. Connors’ former roles include Chair of the Visual Arts Department
at Albuquerque Academy (2006-2009), Senior Curator at the National Hispanic
Cultural Center in Albuquerque (1999-2006), and Associate Curator at the
Smithsonian American Art Museum (1984-1999) where he developed collections and
exhibitions on Hispanic, Latino, Native American, and Folk Art. He studied Art
History and Architecture at Yale University and did his graduate work in
Folklore and American Studies at George Washington University. He has
curated dozens of exhibitions, primarily in the areas of United States Latino
Art, Colonial Art from Puerto Rico, Contemporary Art, and Graffiti. He recently
completed an exhibition and book on the history of jewelry in New Mexico from
prehistory to the present, the first exhibition in a series of medium-focused
historical survey exhibitions on New Mexican art that will include ceramics and
textiles. As a lecturer, guest teacher, and consultant, he has worked with
numerous organizations including the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian
Office of Folklife Programs, Institute for Latino Studies at the University of
Notre Dame, Chicano Studies Department at the University of California Los
Angeles, Getty Center for Education in the Arts, and the Royal Government of
Bhutan.
Michael Findlay,
Member, Cultural Property Advisory Committee
Michael Findlay is a Director of Acquavella
Galleries which specializes in Impressionist, Modern, and Post-War Contemporary
Art and presents major exhibitions of artists such as Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró,
James Rosenquist, Lucian Freud, and Wayne Thiebaud. Findlay directed one of the
first galleries in SoHo in Manhattan in the 1960s, which pioneered the work of
artists like John Baldessari, Hannah Wilke, and Sean Scully and secured
portrait commissions for Andy Warhol. He was a Senior Director at Christie’s
auction house and sat on the Board of Directors from 1984 to 2000. He has
served on the Art Advisory Panel for the Internal Revenue Service since 2001,
serves on the Board of the New York Foundation for the Arts and the British
Schools and Universities Foundation, and is on the Advisory Council of the
Appraisers Association of America. Findlay frequently lectures at museums and
universities in the U.S. and overseas. He has published poetry and essays in
journals, periodicals, and exhibition catalogues, as well as two best-selling books, Seeing Slowly—Looking at Modern Art and The Value of Art. He is married to the
contemporary quilt artist Victoria Findlay Wolfe and has two children.
Cynthia Denise
Herbert, Member, Cultural Property Advisory Committee
Cynthia D. Herbert, AAA, President of Appretium
Appraisal Services LLC, is a Certified Member and past President of the Board
of the Appraisers Association of America. She has appraised an extensive range
of fine and decorative art, antiques, and residential contents/personal property.
Herbert is an instructor at the Appraisal Institute of America and the
Appraisers Association of America. Additionally, through The Appraisal
Foundation, she is an AQB Certified USPAP Instructor (Uniform Standards of
Professional Appraisal Practice). Herbert graduated with a BA from Georgetown
University and an MA from New York University.
Nii Otokunor
Quarcoopome, Member, Cultural Property Advisory Committee
Nii Quarcoopome is the curator of African art
and department head of Africa, Oceania, and Indigenous Americas at the Detroit
Institute of Arts. He received his doctorate in African art history in 1993
from the University of California, Los Angeles. After years of college
teaching, he entered the museum field in 2000, beginning at Newark Museum before
joining Detroit Institute of Arts in 2002. Between 2012 and 2016, Quarcoopome’s
concurrent appointment at the Nelson-Atkins Museum and the Detroit Institute of
Arts made him the first shared curator in American history. His exhibition,
“Through African Eyes: The European in African Art, 1500-Present,” earned a
National Endowment of the Humanities implementation grant and the American
Association of Museums’ recognition for excellence. His academic record boasts
several prestigious postdoctoral fellowships, including the Fulbright and J.
Paul Getty.
Miriam T. Stark,
Member, Cultural Property Advisory Committee
Dr. Miriam Stark, an anthropological
archeologist, is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawai’i at
Mānoa and has worked in Cambodia since 1996. With field experience in North
America, the Philippines, Thailand, and Cambodia, Stark has published more than
100 articles and chapters on Southeast Asian and North American archaeology. A
specialist in ancient ceramics, salient themes in her research include
urbanization, ceramic production and distribution, and power relations in
premodern Cambodia. Stark’s Cambodian archaeological research program
integrates research with capacity-building in collaboration with Cambodia’s
Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts and its various units. She has worked with
nearly 100 Cambodian students, interns, and archaeological professionals since
launching her first field-based project in the country, and continues to mentor
early career archaeologists in Cambodia. Stark became the Director for
the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies in 2018
and is currently a Fulbright Senior Specialist and an Honorary Research
Associate with the University of Sydney. Stark earned her doctorate in Anthropological
Archaeology at the University of Arizona and held a postdoctoral fellowship in
materials analysis at the Smithsonian. She has served as a board member for the
Society for American Archaeology and currently serves on 13 editorial boards
for archaeology and Southeast Asia-focused journals.
William A. K.
Titelman, Member, Cultural Property Advisory Committee
William Titelman has had a highly varied career,
while maintaining a lifelong passion for art, history, archeology,
anthropology, and antiquities. He received his J.D. from The Dickinson School
of Law over a decade after his B.A. in philosophy and art history from
Washington and Jefferson College and Brown University. In between degrees, he
worked in senior executive capacities in Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp’s
Administration and served as a civilian volunteer in Israel during the Yom
Kippur War. Titelman has always championed the rights of injured victims,
consumers, workers, and shareholders. He served for a decade as Legislative Counsel
to the PA Trial Lawyers Association, never losing a legislative battle.
Titelman joined a business and commercial law firm, starting its Harrisburg
office and its government affairs, legislative, and administrative law
practices. He has spearheaded numerous legislative accomplishments, including
the enactment of Pennsylvania’s Business Corporation Law, brownfields
legislation, electric utility deregulation, and the state’s seatbelt law. He
led a national campaign opposing a notorious anti-takeover bill. Titelman was a
principal in developing the Commonwealth Riverfront Center in Harrisburg,
served as Executive Vice President at one of the nation’s largest drugstore
chains, and established the public pension fund and labor union practice for a
plaintiffs securities litigation firm. He founded Pennsylvanians for Gun
Control to support passage of the Brady Bill, was a founding board member of
the Israel Policy Forum, and has served on numerous non-profit boards.
A Pennsylvanian, Titelman was born in Altoona,
grew up in Pittsburgh, lived in Harrisburg for 30 years, then moved to
Washington, DC, before retiring in Florida. During the last nine years he has
also spent much of his time living and learning in Greece.
Who do these new members replace? While not clear from the release, it appears the following current members will no longer serve on the committee:
Public: Stephen Passentino (former Chair)
Archaeology/Anthropology: Ricardo St. Hilaire; Joan
Connelly; and Rachael Fulton Brown
Museums: Karol Wight
International Sale of Cultural Property: Mark Hendrick and David Tamasi.
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