Blog: Voices from SAR
A Continued Practice: Pueblo Textile Traditions Highlighted in IARC Tour
On a recent Sunday afternoon at the Indian Arts Research Center, Pueblo weavers Aric Chopito (Zuni Pueblo) and Louie Garcia (Prio Manso Tiwa tribe of Guadalupe Pueblo) and embroiderer Isabel Gonzales (Jemez Pueblo) came together with director Brian Vallo for a guided tour of the collections. The tour followed a panel discussion with the participants for SAR members and the public about the history and revitalization of the Pueblo weaving tradition, as well as the physical, financial, and cultural struggles that these artists continue to face.
2010 Resident Scholar Jamila Bargach, Harvesting Fog and Teaching Tech
Jamila Bargach has spent the majority of her adult life working to improve the lives of women in her home country of Morocco. SAR is proud to have been a nine-month home for Bargach while she explored how a simple technology—a petroleum-based mesh strategically placed...
The Gnarly Root Project: SAR Welcomes Hopi Artist Gerry Quotskuyva
This week, SAR welcomed to campus Gerry Quotskuyva as the 2018 Rollin and Mary Ella King Native Artist Fellow. A member of the Bear Strap Clan from the Hopi Second Mesa village of Shungopavi and the grandson of an established katsina carver, Quotskuyva believes that...
The Sound of Prehistory
SAR scholars have pursued many unusual research projects over the decades, but one of the more memorable of recent years was that of Miriam Kolar (Weatherhead Resident Scholar, 2016-2017). Kolar, who received her doctorate from Stanford, is a prominent practitioner of the emerging specialty of archaeoacoustics, which brings together acoustic science and archaeology in an effort to understand how sound was used in used in prehistoric times to coordinate collective activity and, in some cases, to inspire awe during religious rituals.
2018-2019 Creative Thought Forum Lecture Series Addresses Tradition and Innovation
How do traditional practices interact with innovative thinking? This question will be the focus of the School for Advanced Research’s upcoming Creative Thought Forum lecture series. Starting this September, SAR hosts five significant scholars whose projects,...
SAR 2018-2019 Resident Scholars and Fall Colloquia
SAR is pleased to welcome six new resident scholars to our campus for nine months of research, writing, and discussion. Exploring topics that range from folk-border saints to artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled speech analysis technologies, this year's scholars are...
Guide to IARC Native Artist Fellows at the 2018 Santa Fe Indian Market
Indian Market is a time for our former artist fellows to share their incredible artistry with the world. The market is also one of the busiest times here at the IARC, with events that involve all of our staff and many volunteers who visit with artists, tribal...
IARC Native Artist Fellow, Nanibaa Beck, Appears on Spencer Beckwith On the Arts
"[There is] an ongoing conversation about modern versus traditional jewelry, especially in the way that it connects with Native American arts in general... The way that I want to think about traditional is the way the I myself interpret it: continuous." Nanibaa Beck...
SAR Artist Fellows Celebrated in Walt Disney World Resort Exhibit
“We get tens of millions of visitors at Smithsonian Museums in Washington and New York, but the reality is that a great many people from around the world will never visit a Smithsonian, and a great many of those people who will never visit a Smithsonian will visit...
“Dogs for Defense” research highlighted in the Santa Fe New Mexican
Nancy Owen Lewis, SAR Scholar-in-Residence, has been exploring the history of WWII-era "Dogs for Defense." New Mexico's arm of the national program recruited and screened people’s pets for use by the military and was led in Santa Fe by Amelia Elizabeth White in her...