CYNTHIA J. HALE, ISA AM was born on a federal reservation in Boulder City, Nevada where her parents owned and operated the Nava-Hopi Trading Post. Raised with Navajo nannies early in life, she worked in her parents store, and later in Washington DC after graduation from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a degree in History, specializing in Westward Expansion. Over the past 35 years Cindy has served on the curatorial staffs at the Creek Council House Museum, Gilcrease Museum, and as Collections Manager at The Five Civilized Tribes Museum. She also worked with Native and fine art collections at several museums including The Denver Art Museum, Bakersfield Art Museum, Western Colorado Center for the Arts, and The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, where she serves on the Board of Visitors. Building upon this museum experience, she began formal appraisals in 1989. Over the past twenty years, she has performed hundreds of quality, professional appraisals for insurance, estate, donation, equitable properety dissolution, resale and liquidation purposes. Cindy has served as an art juror/panelist, an expert witness, and is an accredited member of The International Society of Appraisers, educated and tested in USPAP established by The Appraisal Foundation.
SCOTT W. HALE, ISA AM is the former director of the Brett Weston Archive, and curated several private, corporate, and non-profit collections, responsible for exhibitions and publications. In these roles he worked closely with numerous outstanding international museums, galleries and auction houses. Scott is a graduate of Trinity University and The University of Oklahoma where he pursued his masters and doctoral studies, teaching in the Native American Studies Program, lecturing in the School of Art, and publishing in books and periodicals including: American Indian Portraits, Museum Anthropology Review, Photograph Collector's Guide, and World Literature Today. An independent author, consultant, and curator, Scott brings extensive knowledge and education in American, Latino, and Native Art History, and American photography, as well as specialized research and writing skills to each appraisal report. Scott has served as an exhibitions committee member, art juror/panelist and is an accredited member and chair of the Specialty Studies committee with The International Society of Appraisers, educated and tested in USPAP established by The Appraisal Foundation.