Duane Blue Spruce, a native New Yorker and Pueblo architect, is helping the National Museum of the American Indian in New York expand its downtown Manhattan facility.
Blue Spruce is the facilities planning coordinator at the George Gustav Heye Center. The museum is opening a $5 million exhibition space a month from now with an inaugural installation called "Beauty Surrounds Us."
Blue Spruce also served as architectural liaison and project coordinator for the new NMAI in Washington, D.C. The facility there opened two years ago in September.
Aside from his museum work, Blue Spruce is working on two books about the urban Indian experience. He grew up in New York City and spent most of his life there.
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A Return to Indian Origins, With a Flair for Design
(The New York Times 8/25)
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