Organization

Governing Boards
Development Team
Administration
Artistic Advisory Group
Faculty
School Directors
Joy Brown, General Art Director
Ken Ludden, Academy Director
Alan Filderman, Director of Dramatic Arts
Michael Bletzer, Director of Scholarly Arts
Sadie Rosales, Director of Musical Arts
Instructors
Review Committee
Parent Organization
Accounting

Mr. Bletzer is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at Southern Methodist University,
Dallas, TX from which he received his Masters of Art degree in December 2000 in the same
subject. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg,
Germany May 1995, with majors in Ethnology and Archaeology, and a Minor in Spanish.

He is currently Director of Plaza Montoya Pueblo (NM) Excavations. This is an excavation
run as a long-term public archaeology project with the help of several dozen volunteers
with ongoing work on data analysis, documentation, and archival research. First results are
now being made accessible to a wider audience at: http://www.geocities.com/michaelbletzer

He provided illustrations of artifacts from the Folsom type site for the book Folsom:
New Investigations of a Classic Paleoindian Bison Kill, by David J. Meltzer (forthcoming from
University of California Press).

And in 2001 was Crew Chief for the Earthwatch Project. He was in charge of coordination of
selected activities of excavations at Hummingbird Pueblo, NM, where he did field work with a
mixed group of students and volunteers, managed through Earthwatch.

He will be teaching courses in Art History at the Academy.