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SAR welcomes 2023 William Y. and Nettie K. Adams Fellow Christopher Nelson
The School for Advanced Research is delighted to welcome our first post-pandemic Adams Fellow in the History of Anthropology, University of North Carolina Professor of Anthropology Christopher T. Nelson. While at SAR, Dr. Nelson will prepare an annotated translation...
Crossing Between Worlds and Generations: SAR Visits Canyon de Chelly
Lupita McClanahan guides SAR members down the White House Trail, Canyon de Chelly. Blog by Jeanne Simonelli, SAR Study Guide, Canyon de Chelly 2023 As we drove along Interstate 40 everything looked to me like the outskirts of Gallup. To be driving to Canyon de Chelly...
SAR Honored for Architectural Stewardship by the Historic Santa Fe Foundation
In a public award event held at San Miguel Chapel on May 18, the School for Advanced Research received the Historic Santa Fe Foundation's 2023 Preservation Award for the extensive renovation work on its historic El Delirio campus completed over the past three years....
2023 Native Arts Speaker Series Wrap-Up
By Paloma Lopez, Educator, Indian Arts Research Center, School for Advanced Research The 2023 Native Arts Speaker Series, Grounded in Clay Conversations, has ended. This year we partnered with the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) to host three events over four...
SAR Announces 2023-2024 Native Artist Fellows
SAR Announces 2023-2024 Native American Artist Fellows: Heidi Brandow, Michael Namingha, and Carly Feddersen.
The Breath We Leave: SAR Literary Day 2023
It was the kind of morning best spent in a worn chair next to a lamp reading a good book. Rain pelted at the roof. Its percussive rhythms accompanied the lulling language of Fray Angélico Chávez who wrote: “The angel had simply vanished, slipped out of his hand the way sparrows or trout usually do, only much more swiftly.” Huddled around a broad table, fingers warmed by mugs of coffee and tea, we were in the Reception Center at the School for Advanced Research (SAR) listening to the first three short stories in Fray Angélico Chávez’s “New Mexico Triptych.” Published in 1940, the beloved Franciscan padre born in Wagon Mound, NM created his own illustrations. In 1938 and 1939, he read his poetry aloud at the White Sisters’ “Chapel.” On May 19, 2023, in honor of the second annual Santa Fe International Literary Festival, twenty-four tour guests learned about the literary connections at SAR as an organization, a collection, and a place.