Frank LaPena

LaPena lectures widely on American Indian traditional and cultural issues, emphasizing California traditions, and he is a professor emeritus at California State University, Sacramento. His art has been exhibited since 1960 in twenty-two one-man and numerous group shows across the United States, Europe, Central and South America, Cuba, Australia, and New Zealand. He has been a consultant to museums across the country, including the de Young, the Oakland Museum of California, and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian.