Launching SAR’s new and improved website

SAR’s website, now mobile-compatible

By the time you land on this page you will have noticed that SAR has updated its venerable website.  The new site offers a number of distinct advantages, including a simpler updating process and the ability to adapt to the smaller screens of mobile devices.  There will doubtless be additional tweaking of our web pages in the coming weeks, but the basics are now in place.  I’m confident that you’ll find them an improvement.

This blog module is part of the new site.  We plan to include in it reflections on events at SAR and regular contributions by campus scholars and staff.  Our goal is to give members and other visitors a sense of the scope of scholarly and artistic work undertaken at SAR.

We are a small institution but one that for decades has had an outsized impact on developments in anthropology, Southwestern studies, Native American studies, and Native American art.  Of particular note in recent years has been the effort of the Indian Arts Research Center to promote fresh thinking about relationships between museums and the Native communities whose art institutions such as SAR are privileged to steward.  After several years of discussions with dozens of tribal and public museums, the IARC has prepared two documents that offer guidelines for effective collaboration between communities and repositories.

This website is being launched at the same time as our new member program, the Creative Thought Forum, which will increase SAR’s public impact in Santa Fe and beyond.  We look forward to announcing additional program initiatives in this blog and our other social media outlets.

Michael F. Brown
President