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Twelve Tips for Item Care in Your Home

by Mary G. Madigan | Jan 11, 2023 | Blog, News

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...

Accolades for the Landmark Exhibition Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery

by Mary G. Madigan | Dec 23, 2022 | Blog, News

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...

SAR Artist Alumnus Co-Curates Important Exhibition of Native American Photography

by Michael F. Brown | Dec 22, 2022 | Blog, News

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...

Lives and Afterlives: Reflections on the 2022 Resident Scholar Colloquium Series

by Mary G. Madigan | Dec 21, 2022 | Blog, News

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...

2022 Staley Prize Awarded to J. Lorand Matory at Duke University

by Michael F. Brown | Dec 21, 2022 | Blog, News, Staley Prize

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...

Film Day Rewind

by Mary G. Madigan | Dec 15, 2022 | Blog, Hidden (drafts), News

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)

by Elysia Poon | Dec 1, 2022 | Blog, News, Obituary

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...

SAR Alumna Publishes Award-Winning Book on Community & Ethnic Change in South Central L.A.

by Michael F. Brown | Nov 14, 2022 | Blog, Climate Change, Latinx Studies, News

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?’ :

by Mary G. Madigan | Jul 21, 2022 | Blog, News

‘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...

Forging Her Path: Dr. Adriana María Linares-Palma, 2021-2022 Paloheimo Fellow

by Mary G. Madigan | Jun 30, 2022 | Blog, News

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...