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Gwinnett County, Georgia: a Microcosm of a National Conversation. SAR Resident Scholar on Immigration, Urban Planning, and Politics
For SAR’s 2018-2019 Mellon Fellow John Arroyo, the hotly contested gubernatorial race in Georgia is more than just a news story passing through his feed. Since July 2016, Arroyo, the MIT-trained urban planner, has been visiting Gwinnett County, Georgia, and researching Mexican immigrant experiences in the region. Arroyo’s timely ethnographic research illustrates the importance of new perspectives based on interdisciplinary research that bridges urban planning with migration studies, Latinx studies, and urban sociology.
Hopi Carver Pushes the Artistic Envelope with Large-Form Sculpture
The base for Gerry Quotskuyva’s Gnarly Root Project is a four-foot section of raw cottonwood root that sat in his garage drying for over a decade. Large-form sculptures are new to the Sedona, AZ, artist who was featured recently in an Albuquerque Journal article.
Voices of the Rainforest Brings Papua New Guinea to the Southwest
The immersive film Voices of the Rainforest spans a day in the life of the Kaluli people in their Bosavi rainforest home in Papua New Guinea, highlighting the sounds of the animals, insects and natural world that the Kaluli believe speak of their ancestors.
Director of SAR’s Indian Arts Research Center Collaborates with Field Museum of Chicago on Native North American Hall Revamp
SAR is honored to announce that its Indian Arts Research Center (IARC) director Brian Vallo will play an integral role as a community partner in plans to renovate and reimagine the Native North American Hall at the iconic Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois. Alaka Wali, the museum’s curator of North American anthropology explains in a recent announcement, “It’s not just a new exhibition—it represents a whole new way of thinking.” The revised approach involves working with community partners who will be advisors in the development of the exhibit.
SAR Curated. The Gustave Baumann Map of 1927
SAR Curated is a series on the SAR blog exploring the collections, archives, campus, and institutional history. In this edition, the SAR Press acquisition editor highlights a map of the historic campus created by artist Gustave Baumann in the 1920s for the original owners, Elizabeth and Martha White. The map now hangs in SAR’s administration building and visitors can see the piece on campus tours. Schedule a tour by calling 505.954.7200.
Acoma Designer Pushes Creative Boundaries in the Fashion World
In 2017, the School for Advanced Research awarded Acoma designer, Loren Aragon, with the Ronald and Susan Dubin Fellowship. While at SAR Aragon developed new work that continues his style of merging contemporary aesthetics with imagery inspired by his own...
SAR Resident Scholar Represents United States in Vatican City Conference on Immigration
William Calvo-Quirós, one of SAR’s 2018-2019 Mellon Fellows, was one of three Americans invited to join 230 global participants in the World Conference on Xenophobia, Racism, and Populist Nationalism in the Context of Global Migration.
Community Activists and Masters of Pageantry, Martha and Elizabeth White
"In 1972, [Elizabeth White] left her estate to SAR. A gift that has become part of the remarkable legacy of two sisters who as good Bryn Mawrters came to Santa Fe in the 1920s with an agenda: to do good, to be strong, and to party on." - Nancy Owen Lewis...
Amid #MeToo, Researchers Examine Marital Rape as Abuse at SAR Advanced Seminar
Since the 1970s sociologist Kersti Yllö has been working in area of sexual assault that receives little attention. In 2016, she and anthropologist M. Gabriela Torres published an edited volume of new research addressing the topic. Marital Rape: Consent, Marriage and...
Ayahuasca Tourism In Perú: A Tale of Violence and Indigenous Resistance
Abou Farman (Anthropology, The New School) was recently at SAR as a participant in the advanced seminar “Death Culture in the 21st Century,” co-chaired by Shannon Lee Dawdy (University of Chicago) and Tamara E. Kneese (U. San Francisco). Knowing about my interest in Amazonia, Abou passed along information on a recent tragedy in Amazonian Peru that took place not far from the major city of Pucallpa.
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...
Climate Change, Skepticism, Scale
On June 1, 2018, the School for Advanced Research and The Nature Conservancy in New Mexico hosted New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert at Santa Fe’s Lensic Performing Arts Center. The event drew a capacity crowd of more than 700. Kolbert presented a 30-minute talk that was followed by an on-stage Q&A by Terry Sullivan, director of The Nature Conservancy NM, and SAR president Michael Brown. This event, the title of which was “The Fate of the Earth,” was presented under the auspices of SAR’s annual President’s Lecture.
IARC Director, Brian Vallo, Appears on Mary-Charlotte Radio Café
On a recent Friday afternoon, Brian Vallo, Director of the Indian Arts Research Center, sat for an interview with Mary-Charlotte Domandi, host of Radio Café. The two embarked on a discussion about the past, present, and future work of the IARC. Across the interview...
Author Christine Mather speaks on Pueblo Revival Architecture
Continuing Santa Fe’s Colorful Legacy lecture series, local author and architectural historian Christine Mather will present on Pueblo Revival architecture on Sunday, July 1, 2018 from 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm at the St. Francis Auditorium, 107 West Palace Avenue at the New...
From Urban Coyotes to New Mexico Mountains: Summer Salons at SAR
Droughts, changing habitats, and increased urban sprawl over the last several decades have impacted the lives of animals and people alike. Continuing a programmatic focus on climate change issues, the School for Advanced Research is pleased to announce its...
SAR Announces 2018-19 Native Artist Fellows
SAR is pleased to announce the 2018-2019 cycle of artists-in-residence. Each year the Indian Arts Research Center offers three fellowships to advance the work of mature and emerging Native artists. These fellowships give artists time to explore new avenues of...
Are Human Bodies Private Property or Part of a Commons?
Are Human Bodies Private Property or Part of a Commons? Michael F. Brown On Wednesday, April 17, 2018, SAR was pleased to host presentations by Nancy Scheper-Hughes (Chancellor's Professor Emerita, UC-Berkeley) and Òrla O'Donovan (School of Applied Social Studies,...
New Book Published by 2015 Summer Scholar Devaka Premawardhana
Devaka Premawardhana, 2015 Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Summer Scholar, is pleased to share the news that his book, Faith in Flux: Pentecostalism and Mobility in Rural Mozambique, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018 has just been published. Dr. Premawardhana is...
Bringing Native Art to Underserved Students
The Indian Arts Research Center (IARC) is proud to participate in the 21st Century Community Center grant initiative led by Santa Fe (SFPS) and Espanola (EPS) Public Schools to bring quality extended learning opportunities to afterschool programs for underserved...
Sisters in Arts, Honoring “Trailblazers and Boundary Breakers”
Thank you to the Santa Fe New Mexican, Pasatiempo, and Jennifer Levin for writing such a fantastic article on the upcoming Speaker Series at the Indian Arts Research Center (IARC), Trailblazers and Boundary Breakers: Honoring Native Women in Art.”
PBS’s “Report from Santa Fe” interviews Dr. Gabriella Coleman
Lorene Mills of “Report from Santa Fe” interviewed Dr. Gabriella Coleman on January 26 on her lecture topic, “Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous”.