SAR News

ABQ Journal North Looks at SAR’s 110 Years — Wes Cowan is in the business of knowing. The appraiser has been featured on PBS Antiques Roadshow, as well as History Detectives. And he will be in Santa Fe to help celebrate the 110th anniversary of the School for Advanced Research.

Icaros: A Vision — A special screening co-sponsored by SAR, followed by a conversation with the film’s producer, co-writer, and anthropologist Abou Farman and School for Advanced Research President Michael Brown, who has written several books about the Peruvian Amazon and shamanism.

The School of Advanced Research is pleased to welcome Loren Aragon as the 2017 Ronald and Susan Dubin Fellow. Aragon comes from Acoma Pueblo and is the founder of ACONAV, a fashion brand specializing in women’s couture evening wear.

What’s Your Treasure Worth? by Wes Cowan (featured on Antiques Roadshow and History Detectives) — For 110 years, SAR has been a careful steward of treasures from the Southwest and beyond. Now, in conjunction with SAR’s 110 Anniversary, participants can have their own treasures evaluated by Wes Cowan and his team.

SAR Native Artist Fellows’ Work Accessioned into New York Museum — The School for Advanced Research congratulates 2015 Eric and Barbara Dobkin Native Artist Fellow Dawn Dark Mountain and 2016 Eric and Barbara Dobkin Native Artist Fellow Luanne Redeye on having their work accessioned into the New York State Museum collections.

Rock Art and Pueblo Shields: Symbolism and Change, a public talk by Polly Schaafsma — Presented in partnership with the Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project.

How the Languages We Speak Shape The Ways We Think: SAR Lecture Series Continues — To have a second language is to have a second soul, said Charlemagne around 800 AD. Each language has its own cognitive toolkit, says psychologist/linguist Lera Boroditsky.

SAR Announces 2017-2018 Native Artist Fellows: Loren Aragon, Warren Montoya, Jordan Craig.

Congratulations to Nicole Taylor, former Director of Scholar Programs at SAR, whose book has won two literary awards.

The winner of this year’s prestigious J.I. Staley Prize is Dr. Stefan Helmreich for his book Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas.

The rich cultural history and significance of rock art and petroglyphs in the Rio Grande Valley, and an exploration of those artifacts, make up two must-attend events sponsored by the School for Advanced Research (SAR) in April.

The School for Advanced Research is pleased to announce that Professor John Nieto-Phillips of Indiana University will present a lecture, Hispano Homeland or Fantasy Heritage? Spanish-American Identity and Ideology in New Mexico, 1890s-1940s, on April 27, 2017.

On December 29, 2016, NPR’s All Things Considered aired a story about the mixed-race Genizaros, whose history in northern New Mexico goes back to the seventeenth century.

The 2017 President's Circle events have been posted - click here to view the upcoming events. Please consider joining the President’s Circle to take advantage of these wonderful opportunities. You may join here.

Experimental Living on the Edge of the Taos Desert Since the late 1880s, northern New Mexico has been a place of starting over. But it really was in the early decades of the twentieth century, as people fled the collapse of modernity and the failure of progress in the...