SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
AUGUST VOICES 2025MONDAY NIGHTS AT 6 PM AT HOTEL SANTA FE

LECTURES 50 MONDAYS A YEAR
A PUBLIC PROGRAM GRACIOUSLY ASSISTED BY HOTEL SANTA FE, A PICURIS PUEBLO ENTERPRISE

August 4 Tom Johnson, M.Phil.
Journalist/Professor Emeritus (ret.) with a long career zig-zagging from the classroom to the newsroom and back. Taught at Columbia University and San Francisco State. He has researched, created, and worked with geographic data since the 1960s and introduced GIS to the investigative journalism community 35 years ago. He has been in and out of Mexico & Latin America since the 1960s as a researcher, lecturer, traveler (and journalist) recounting a curious, compelling Spanish Colonial story.
Lienzo de Quauhquechollan: Captivating Geo-history of 16th C. Mexico & Guatemala

August 11 Robert D. Martinez, M.A.
New Mexico State Historian, Specialist in Spanish Colonial church, cultural, and social practices; former Deputy State Historian and Research Historian, Sephardic Legacy Project (Crypto-Judaism); Folk musician: Smithsonian Folk Life Festival, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, National Education Association Heritage Fellowship Awards Ceremony, Historic Santa Fe Foundation, Southwest Seminars.
Alabados, Alabanzas, Inditas & Corridos! Hispano Musical Traditions

August 18 Lynda Teller Pete & Barbara Ornelas (Diné)
Master Diné Tapestry Weavers; Fifth generation Navajo weavers, sisters Lynda and Barbara are Tabaaha (Water Edge Clan and born for the To’aheedlinii (Two Waters Flow Together Clan); Co-Authors, How to Weave a Navajo Rug and Other Lessons from Spider Woman. Raised at Two Grey Hills  Trading Post. Internationally acclaimed for fine tapestry weaving, their lives and work have been featured in many publications and in the Craft of America TV program, their tapestries exhibited at galleries and museums worldwide. Together they teach Navajo weaving workshops for museums, galleries and guilds while valuing the opportunity to serve as ambassadors for their Navajo culture and traditions.
Navajo Culture Through Weaving

SPECIAL NOTE: Held at Santa Fe Womans Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail
August 25 Deborah Jackson Taffa (Laguna Pueblo/Quechan), M.F.A.
Director, MFA Creative Writing Program at Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). Author, Whiskey Tender, a Memoir, Finalist 2024 National Book Award; Longlisted title, 2025 Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Nonfiction; 2024 Top Ten Book: The Atlantic, Time Magazine, and Audible; Longer list Top book: NPR, Elle, Esquire, The New Yorker and Publisher’s Weekly. 2024 NEA Fellow, 2022 Winner PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History, Fellowships awarded: Tin House, University of Iowa, MacDowell, Rona Jaffe Foundation, Ellen Meloy Fund, and New York State Summer Writers Institute. Editor Emeritus, River Styx literary magazine. and earned her nonfiction MFA in Iowa City.
On the New Native Renaissance in Literature and Film

$20 AT THE DOOR – OR – $75 FOR THE SERIES OF 4 LECTURES

IMAGE: LIENZO DE QUAUHQUECHOLLAN, UNIVERSIDAD FRANCISCO MARROQUIN ,
PERMANENT EXHIBITION, ‘QUAUHQUECHOLLAN:, A CHRONICLE OF CONQUEST’
COURTESY OF TOM JOHNSON

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