By Laura Elliff Cruz, Collections Manager, Indian Arts Research Center, School for Advanced Research After teaching an SAR member class in early December, Caring for Your Personal Collections at Home: An Introduction to Collections Care, I realized how busy everyday...
On July 31 this year Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery opened in Santa Fe at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture. The exhibition, curated by the Pueblo Pottery Collective and organized by the School for Advanced Research and the Vilcek Foundation, has...
Will Wilson, the Santa Fe-based Navajo photographer and 2013 Rollin and Mary Ella King Artist Fellow at SAR, has co-curated a major exhibition of contemporary Native American photography at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas. The...
Written by Paul Ryer, Scholar Programs Director With the end of Robert Weiner’s compelling presentation about the roads of Chaco Canyon on December 14, we successfully concluded SAR’s 2022 Resident Scholar colloquium series. Using the format we have evolved over the...
On November 3, 2022, SAR President Michael F. Brown presented the 2022 J.I. Staley Prize to J. Lorand Matory, Duke University, at an event in Durham, North Carolina, hosted by Duke’s School of Arts & Sciences. Matory is the Lawrence Richardson Distinguished...
Written by Paloma López, Educator, Indian Arts Research Center Sunday, November 6 was Film Day at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (MIAC). The School for Advanced Research (SAR) and MIAC teamed up for a day of screenings, panels, and demonstrations in...
In Memoriam: Pat Courtney Gold (1939-2022) Very recently, we received news that 2009 Eric and Barbara Dobkin Native Artist Fellow Pat Courtney Gold passed away on July 11, 2022. Pat, a Wasco basketmaker, grew up on the Warm Springs Reservation in the mid-Columbia...
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (Sociology, USC), a 2017-2018 Weatherhead Fellow, was recently honored for a book written during her time at SAR. South Central Dreams: Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A. (NYU Press), co-authored with Manuel Pastor, is a...
‘Who Were You When You Stepped to This Pot?’1: A Lesson in Community Curation from Grounded in Clay Guest post by Emily Santhanam Consider when and where you’ve seen Pueblo pottery in a museum. How was it displayed? Who wrote the label? What did it tell you about the...
Written by Kat Bernhardt, Advancement Associate, SAR With her sparkling dark eyes and guarded genuine smile, there is a big-hearted openness about Dr. Adriana María Linares-Palma, 2021-2022 Paloheimo Fellow in residence at the School for Advanced Research (SAR) in...
President’s Circle Virtual Happy Hour “Shared Histories: Exploring Connections between Collections at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture and SAR” with SAR Senior Scholar Bruce Bernstein Image above: IAF 121. Jar, c.1916. Crescencio and[...]
Grounded in Clay Programming Event! The Prose of Pueblo PotterySunday, February 5, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm MSTMuseum of Indian Arts & Culture Join artists and Pueblo Pottery Collective members Max Early (Laguna), Rose B.[...]
MELLON LECTURE The War on Both Sides: Drug Addiction as Lived in New Mexico’s Española Valley and in Mexico City Angela Garcia 6:00 p.m. Doors open, light reception in lobby 7:00 p.m. Presentation begins in[...]
From Me to You: A Conversation with Pottery With Tara Gatewood (Isleta, Diné) Journalist, storyteller, and photographer, Tara Gatewood (Isleta, Diné), examines the ways in which we communicate with the world around us and the[...]
Earth, Wind, Fire, Water: Pueblo Pottery and the Environment With Dr. Matthew Martinez (Ohkay Owingeh), Jason Garcia (Santa Clara), and Dr. Christina M. Castro (Jemez) Dr. Matthew Martinez (Ohkay Owingeh) sits down with Jason Garcia (Santa[...]
TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE LENSIC BOX OFFICE (ONLY) STARTING FEBRUARY 10 Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Andrew S. Curran discuss the invention of race and its worldwide effects, including impacts in the American[...]
Conversation and Pottery Making: An Afternoon with Clarence Cruz and Samuel Villarreal Catanach With Clarence Cruz (Ohkay Owingeh), and Samuel Villarreal Catanach (Pojoaque) Join UNM professor Clarence Cruz (Ohkay Owingeh) and Pojoaque’s Tewa Language Department[...]
Untold Pueblo Stories: Hidden Histories and the Pueblo Diaspora Diego Medina (Tiwa-Piro-Manso), Albert Alvidrez (Ysleta del Sur), and Jerry Dunbar (Ysleta del Sur) Diego Medina (Tiwa-Piro-Manso), Albert Alvidrez (Ysleta del Sur), and Jerry Dunbar (Ysleta[...]