Appointment of Lloyd New Kiva, Cherokee Indian artist and owner-manager of an Indian arts and crafts shop at Scottsdale, Ariz., as a member of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board was announced today by Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall.
A native of Fairland, Okla., Kiva was named to fill out the unexpired term of Willard W. Beatty, who died September 29 shortly after being elected chairman of the Board. The term expires July 6, 1964.
The new Board member has been in the Indian arts and crafts field for the past 22 years. During this period, he taught arts and crafts at the Phoenix Indian School for four years and served as superintendent of the Indian exhibit at the Arizona State Fair each year from 1939 to 1946.
He has owned and operated his shop at Scottsdale since 1945. After finishing high school, he studied at the Chicago Arts Institute on a Bureau of Indian Affairs scholarship and later attended the University of Chicago, the University of New Mexico, and Oklahoma A &M College.
Dr. Frederick J. Dockstader, also of Scottsdale and a member of the Board since September 20, 1955, was elected Chairman succeeding Dr. Beatty on October 5.
