David W. Penney is Vice President of Museum Programs and Curator of Native American Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Founded in 1885, the Detroit of Institute Arts (DIA) has been a beacon of culture for the Detroit area for well over a century. The DIA's collection is among the top six in the United States, comprising a multicultural and multinational survey of human creativity from prehistory through the 21st century. Art of the American Indian Frontier: A Portfolio (The New Press) presents DIA's Chandler-Pohrt collection of nineteenth-century Native American art from the North American Woodlands, Prairie, and Plains.
