October 1997

Paul Apodaca (Navajo and Mexican) is a Professor at Chapman University, Orange, California. He is a board member of the California Council for the Humanities and a member of the NMAI Regional Advisor program. As part of a team that won the 1985 Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary (Broken Rainbow), Paul wrote and performed the musical score for that film. He has served as a consultant for Sundance Film Institute, Universal Family Entertainment, Walt Disney Imagineering, and is the Book Review Editor for News from Native California. For 17 years he was a curator at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, Calif., and has recently been concentrating his efforts on a doctoral program in folklore and mythology at UCLA, where he was named the Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year.

Image credit: Paul Apodaca - Photograph by Katherine Fogden, NMAI