SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
SEPTEMBER VOICES 2024
MONDAY NIGHTS AT 6 PM AT HOTEL SANTA FE
LECTURES 50 MONDAYS A YEAR (ALMOST)
A PUBLIC PROGRAM GRACIOUSLY ASSISTED BY HOTEL SANTA FE, A PICURIS PUEBLO ENTERPRISE
September 2 Dr. Frances Levine
Former President/CEO, Missouri Historical Society & Missouri History Museum; Former Director, Palace of the Governors, New Mexico History Museum, Museum of New Mexico; Leadership of Soldiers Memorial Military Museum and Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum Commission; Former Dean, Santa Fe Community College; Author, Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition: A Seventeenth Century New Mexican Drama; (Winner Southwest Book Award); Our Prayers Are in This Place: Pecos Pueblo Identity over the Centuries; Co-Author, (w/M. Weigle, L. Stiver) Telling New Mexico: A New History; and (w/M. Redding, K. Elrick, Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe.
Two, Too Strong Women: Reassessing Colonial Women in Santa Fe & St. Louis
September 9 Christopher J. Lewis (Zuni)
Chris is of the Badger Clan and a child of the Corn Clan. A fiber artist, textile scholar, and educator living in the village of Zuni Pueblo. Well known for his basketry and textile weavings he is a talented hand craftsman also highly regarded for his cultural knowledge and serves on the Board of Bears Ears Partnership (formerly known as Friends of Cedar Mesa). He revives basketry & other textile arts at Zuni and other nearby Pueblos. Native Scholar, Cedar Mesa Perishables Project studying ancient perishables such as baskets, textiles, wood, and feather work from the Greater Southwest in major museum collections, contributions to scientific research projects, applying the techniques learned from ancient weavings and teaching others. He also serves as a cultural tour guide and educator for Mesa Verde Foundation.
Revival of Ancestral Puebloan Prehistoric Basket Techniques
September 16 Nicolasa Chavez, M.A.
New Mexico Deputy State Historian; Lecturer, History & Artistic Traditions from Spanish Colonial to Contemporary New Mexico; Former Curator, Spanish Colonial & Contemporary Hispano/Latino Collections, Museum of International Folk Art. Author, A Century of Masters: NEA National Heritage Fellows of NM; The Spirit of Flamenco: From Spain to New Mexico (Winner, New Mexico Book Award); Essayist, Seasons of Ceremonies: Rites and Ritual in Guatemala and Mexico. Essayist, singer, dancer, musical artist of distinction!
History of Flamenco
September 23 Dr. D. Clark Wernecke
Archaeologist and Project Director, The Prehistory Research Project, University of Texas-Austin; Executive Director, Gault School of Archaeological Research (GSAR); History/Archaeology Research Consultant; Former Field Director/Co-Principal Investigator, Belize River Archaeological Settlement Survey (BRASS)/ El Pilar, San Ignacio, Cayo, Belize/Meso-American Research Center, University of California-Santa Barbara. Doctoral dissertation: Maya construction materials, techniques. Years studying ancient architecture: Mesoamerica, Middle East, America Southeast/Southwest & Paleo-Indian. Jokingly describes profession of archaeology as CSI: Prehistoric.
Peopling of the Americas and the Central Texas Gault Site
September 30 Iva Honyestewa (Songoopavi Village, Second Mesa, Hopi )
Iva Casuse Honwynum (Female Bear Walking) is Hopi Sun (Tarawa) Clan, distinguished basketry artist, social activist, community builder, & preserver of Hopi culture. She received advanced silversmith & jewelry training including Hopi overlay, lapidary, lost wax & tufa casting. Featured in, Native American Jewelry Makers; Awarded a 2014 Residency at School for Advanced Research, she developed a combination of the sifter and coiled basket, which she calls pootsaya, a reflection of deep affection for her community and culture. ”The coil portion is woven tight representing a tight foundation for the community. Yucca strands (in the sifter portion), tied into the coil, represent bringing our people back to ether so we can become one again and make a better community for our future children…not only for the Hopi community but for all communities throughout the world…the purpose of the pootsaya.” 1st Place, Contemporary Basketry, 2nd Place, Plaited Wicker Basketry, 2018 Santa Fe Indian Market.
My Life as a Strong Female Hopi Artist
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