Museum Board and Advisory Councils

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Museum Board Members:

Robert Berger, President
Jacomien Mars, Vice-President
David Hubert, Treasurer
Isabel T. Wallop, Secretary

Thomas Bernard
Leslie Johnston
Tom Meredith
Father Peter J. Powell
Sam J. Scott
Joan F. Wallick

ex officio:
Kenneth L. Schuster, Director & Chief Curator
Kendra Heimbuck, Director of Operations

 

The Brinton Museum’s National Advisory Council, formed in 2014, currently has thirty-three active and four ex-officio members, representing over twenty states and three foreign countries.

President: Thomas E. Bernard
Vice President: Terri Baas
Secretary: Hilary Goodwin
Ex officio: Robert Berger, Jacomien Mars, Kenneth L. Schuster, Kendra Heimbuck

Current Members:
Terri Baas, Jerry Berger, Rosie Berger, Tracy Boyle, Ceci Butler, Edward Campbell III, Marion R. Cato, Betsy Denison, Jane A. Ferril, Doug Gouge, Kendall Hartman, Gil Johnston, Lloyd Kelly, Kevin McMahon, Susan Miller, Doug Moomey, Gerald Peters, Heather Plank, Rick Porter, Bill Rader, Jerry Sheldon, Andrew Smith, Jason Stevenson, Celia Wallace, Isabel Wallop (past president), Paul Wallop, Priscilla Welles, Loran White, Charles Whiton.

The Brinton Museum’s American Indian Advisory Council (inaugurated in 2015) consists of ten highly respected members from the Apsaalooke-Crow, Northern Cheyenne, Lakota and Navajo Nations.

Council Members:

Apsaalooke – Crow Nation:
Thomas M. Yellowtail
Vernon Whiteman

Northern Cheyenne Nation:
Wallace Bearchum
Linwood Tall Bull

Lakota Nation:
Craig Howe

Representatives at Large:
Vivian Arviso, Navajo Nation
Rhonda Holy Bear, Cheyenne River Lakota Nation
Norma Robertson, Sisseton Dakota Nation
Mardell Hogan Plainfeather, Apsaalooke – Crow Nation

Board Liaison:
Father Peter J. Powell
Foundation for the Preservation of American Indian Art and Culture

Portrait of Forrest E. Mars, Jr. by Everett Raymond Kinstler
Portrait of Forrest E. Mars, Jr. by Everett Raymond Kinstler

Mr. Mars served as the first President of The Brinton Museum Board until his passing on July 26, 2016 and was posthumously awarded the Wyoming Governor’s Arts Award for 2016 on February 3, 2017.

The video produced by the Wyoming Arts Council can be accessed HERE.