Paul Interview Assembly Teaser B_V02_HD.mp4
Venancio Agaron preview.mp4
Chaco and Chocolate- SAR Impacts with Archaeologist Patricia Crown.mp4
Don't forget to sign up for our May 21 Artist Talk with Leah Mata Fragua. Learn about creating a Chumash dance dress, how climate change has impacted her artistic source materials and more! Register here: https://bit.ly/3cbDFJK
On April 28, SAR will host a member dialogue with Patricia Crown, 2019-2020 Weatherhead Fellow and current Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. Join this guided discussion to learn about her career and current project on drinking practices and politics in Chaco Canyon through an exploration of the known cylinder jars from the region. Register here: https://bit.ly/34RtE1H
SAR Impacts - Meet Dr. Patricia Crown
Chocolate and Chaco? Meet SAR Weatherhead fellow, Dr. Patricia Crown. Learn more about her project exploring the use of chocolate across the Chaco Canyon region nearly 1000 years ago.
Stay tuned for our full profile with Dr. Crown that we'll be sharing next week and mark your calendars to join us for an SAR member webinar with her on Tuesday, April 21.
Her project asks what the use of cylinder jars and their connection to chocolate a millennium ago in Chaco can tell us about the ritual, economic, and political life of the inhabitants of Pueblo Bonito. While at SAR, Dr. Crown has been developing her book that answers this question by exploring the interconnections among drinking practices, crafts production, and status hierarchies.
Installation of From Within: A Collaborative Show Between the School for Advanced Research and Youth Artists at Santa Fe’s YDP Program
“From Within: A Collaborative Show Between the School for Advanced Research and Youth Artists at Santa Fe’s YDP Program” opened last Friday at the Ray Drew Gallery in Las Vegas, NM. The exhibit celebrates one of SAR's educational community programs. Diego Medina (IARC education assistant) and Felicia Garcia (IARC special projects coordinator) have been working with residents at the Santa Fe Youth Development Program (YDP) to create pieces for the exhibit.
As the exhibit description notes:
"The works in the exhibition are a collaboration between incarcerated youth and Native artists from New Mexico. The Indian Arts Research Center at the School for Advanced Research has been working with the residents at the Santa Fe YDP program, a branch of the Santa Fe detention center, to create all of the artwork for the show. YDP houses youth from Santa Fe and surrounding areas, many of which come from Native communities. As stewards of important cultural items, SAR serves as a liaison for bringing in working Native artists to facilitate art activities with these youth. Every artist from YDP in this show will remain unnamed, and what you will see are some of the artistic expressions that came out of the collaboration."
Be sure to stop by the closing reception on Friday, February 7th from 4-6pm.
Photography and video by Felicia Garcia
SAR 2019-2020 Introductory Presentations
An overview of the projects that the 2019-2020 resident scholars, Anne Ray interns, and the 2019 Rollin and Mary Ella King Native artist fellow will be working on while in residence at SAR.
Artist Talk with Ian Kuali'i
Multimedia artist Ian Kuali’i, SAR’s 2019 Ronald and Susan Dubin Native artist fellow, speaks about his work and time at SAR.
Summer Salon with Bryan Steiff
Where Wind Works: Documenting US and European Wind Turbines and Correlating Changes to the Landscape
Since 2011, photographer Bryan Steiff has tracked developments and uses of energy-generating wind turbines. From small applications and individual residential use to massive commercial wind farms, visualizing the current state of wind-use invites a dialogue around practicality, community impacts, environmental concerns, and political implications of this particular energy source.
Steiff says, “these dramatic symbols of renewable resources and green technology vividly evidence the hand of man on the landscape in a way not seen since the massive World War II infrastructure development in American and rebuilding of post-war Europe.”
Summer Salon with Frank Graziano
Author Frank Graziano shares research on the world of New Mexico’s historic stone and adobe churches and the role these structures play in communities today. Based on interpretive ethnographic fieldwork, his work demonstrates how a few committed mayordomos (church caretakers) or entire communities rallying around restoration efforts can influence the future of culturally relevant historic locations.
Speaker Salon with author Nicholas Carr
What is the Internet doing to our minds and how is it shaping the ways we work, think, and live. Michael F. Brown, SAR president, leads a live discussion with Nicholas Carr.
2018 2019 Anne Ray Intern Presentations
Felicia Garcia and Samantha Tracy share their experiences as this year’s Anne Ray interns at the School for Advanced Research
Speaker Salon with Elizabeth Hoover
Anthropologist Dr. Elizabeth Hoover and SAR members explore Native American food heritage, seed sovereignty, climate change and more.
You'll be able to spot La Fonda Hotel's Jennifer Kimball from afar in these amazing coats made from painted fabric done by SAR's 2018 Eric and Barbara Dobkin Native artist fellow, Jordan Craig.
Learn more about the artist's time at SAR on our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JQPQP_BWx0&t=47s
What is unique about SAR? An interview with Senior Scholar Steven Feld
https://sarweb.org/give-to-sar/why-give-to-sar-appeal/
The world needs places where communities can engage in intellectual inquiry and challenging conversations rooted in diverse cultural traditions and histories. Hear from Steven Feld – filmmaker, sound artist/performer, cultural and linguist anthropologist, and SAR Senior Scholar – on what makes SAR so unique!
As you review your end-of-year giving, we encourage you to consider contributing to SAR. Your support, no matter the amount, helps to sustain SAR’s indispensable role as an institution that encourages innovative social science research and promote Native American artistic creativity.
Gerry Quotskuyva in the Dubin Studio
This #GivingTuesday, show SAR some love. Your support helps continue a legacy of hosting Native American artists through fellowships and gives time and space to artists so they can harness their cultural heritage and explore new avenues of creativity.
https://sarweb.org/donate/
"The land at the School for Advanced Research (SAR) will forever be Holy grounds to me. I arrived experiencing a creative block and within a few weeks, my inner voice reawakened –speaking to me through a variety of circumstances. This formed the direction of where I started work every day. As a result, the Gnarly Root is not only a matriarchal concept, but a timeline of my residency. Each and every artist should be able to walk away from SAR with a clear vision of their creative spirit and goals for the future. It was better than most residencies in that it was a spiritual retreat well worth the journey." - Gerry Quotskuyva, SAR's 2018 Rollin and Mary Ella King Native Artist Fellow
Thank you to everyone who joined us last night for the world premiere of Voices of the Rainforest. It was particularly special to hear from the creators: Steven Feld, Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, sound editor Dennis Leonard, and filmmaker Jeremiah Richards.
The documentary is screening nightly at 6:30 pm at the Violet Crown Santa Fe until next Tuesday. Catch it with a friend and enjoy this truly unique experience.
Or head to Albuquerque on Thursday and see it at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science as part of the The Society for Ethnomusicology
#SARsf #SARsfalum #SEM_2018 #documentary #immersivedocumentary #Mickeyhart #rainforest
Visit SAR Press at the AAA in San Jose! We'll be at booth #315 with UNM Press.
For our US followers: Did you vote today in the midterm elections (or maybe voted early)?
SAR staff are proud to be part of the voting crowds today.
#SARsf #GoVote #votetoday #electionday #electionnight #wevoted #Ivoted #midterm2018
Leah Buechley Speaker Salon
We’re live with computer scientist, Leah Buechley. We’re talking makerspaces, gender equity, craft, technology, and STEM. (Conversation will start at 10:10) Share your questions in the comments field and we’ll ask the speaker as the program progresses.
Watching now: Brian Vallo -A History of Giving: Stewardship of Private Collections at the IARC. Comment below to let us know you are watching! #nativeartweek #IARCsf #facebooklive