New Timelines Newsletter - Center of Southwest Studies

Spring 2016
Inside this issue:
From the Director
About Shelby J. Tisdale
Featured Volunteer
New Staff
TIMELINES
Doctoral Fellows
Student Spotlight
Delaney Library News
Archival Treasures
Exhibits
Parks, People, Preservation
Center Members/Acquisitions
Solstice Event
Hand colored lantern slide of woman at Balcony House, Mesa Verde National Park, circa 1930’s, from the “Nina Heald Webber Southwest
Photographs Collection at the Center of Southwest Studies,” P056LS009.
The Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College connects individuals and communities with
opportunities to explore, study, and experience the Southwest’s dynamic heritage.
1000 Rim Drive | Durango, Colorado 81301 | 970-247-7456 | http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu
FROM THE DIRECTOR
Welcome to the Center of Southwest Studies! As the new director of the Center I would
like to take this opportunity to say what a thrill it is to be back in the Southwest, in
particular southwest Colorado. It has been several years since I worked on the Dolores
Archaeological Project and at Yellow Jacket when I was cutting my teeth in anthropology
and archaeology as an undergraduate at the University of Colorado. I have since had a
huge place in my heart for this area and an ongoing interest in its deep-rooted history
and dynamic cultural heritage.
Upon my arrival at the
Center on February 1st
I received the warmest
of welcomes from the Center’s staff, volunteers and
supporters. With the departure of Jay Harrison last
summer the Center’s dedicated staff has kept things
running smoothly. I am honored to be joining such a
talented professional team in ensuring that the Center
continues to fulfill its ongoing role as the steward of
a broad range of collections representing the Greater
Southwest and its legacy of service to students and
faculty, as well as the Durango community, and
scholars and visitors from afar. Thank you to all!
Since the publication of the Center’s fiftieth anniversary
issue of Timelines there have been some staff changes
along with the presentation of several inspiring
educational programs, and exciting exhibitions in the
main gallery and the archives over the past year. In
this issue of Timelines you will meet our newest staff
members, our two academic fellows, and some of the
student interns. We are also featuring one of our longtime and valuable volunteers. You will also learn about
our new exhibitions for 2016. Through the generosity
of several donors we have added important objects,
art and archival materials to our collections, many of
which are acknowledged as well.
The Center is at a pivotal point in its history and as
the new director I would like to take this opportunity
to share with you my vision for the next five years—
what I refer to as “Vision 20/20 for the Center of
Southwest Studies.” The Center is unique among its
peer institutions in the Southwest and I want to build
on its strengths and increase its identity and visibility
regionally and nationally. My vision for the Center of
Southwest Studies is that it is known as the regional
leader of a wide community of life-long learners that
embraces and celebrates the dynamic historical and
cultural heritage of the Greater Southwest through a
deeper understanding of, and respect for, its diverse
peoples and cultures. This will be accomplished
through high quality scholarly research, stewardship of
the collections, and public outreach.
I envision the Center of Southwest Studies as a warm
and vibrant place of ideas where the interpretation of
human history and issues of cultural and environmental
preservation are debated and discussed in a safe
environment that is respectful of both ideological
and cultural differences. I see the Center as perfectly
poised to take on an even greater role as the “Gateway
to the Greater Southwest” beyond the Fort Lewis
College campus and to broaden its intellectual reach
to the national level and beyond. By 2020 the Center
of Southwest Studies will be nationally recognized for
its integrity and excellence in leadership, scholarship,
collaboration, and preservation.
I look forward to seeing and working with you as we
travel along this trail of discovery together that will
in turn ensure the Center’s future growth in new and
exciting ways.
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ABOUT SHELBY J. TISDALE
Dr. Shelby Tisdale has over thirty-five years of combined
experience in museums; university teaching; and
anthropological, tribal museum and cultural resource
management consulting. Dr. Tisdale is the former
director of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/
Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe, New Mexico
and the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos. More
recently she served as vice president of curatorial and
exhibitions at the Autry Museum of the American
West in Los Angeles. Dr. Tisdale received her Ph.D. in
cultural anthropology from the University of Arizona,
her M.A. from the University of Washington in social
anthropology and museum studies; and, her B.A. from
the University of Colorado-Boulder where she studied
anthropology and southwestern archaeology.
She has published forty articles and book chapters
relating to American Indian art and culture, repatriation,
and women in the West. She contributed to and directed
the publication of the Oklahoma Book Award winning
Woven Worlds: Basketry from the Clark Field Collection, for
the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her
book, Fine Indian Jewelry of the Southwest: The Millicent
Rogers Museum Collection (Museum of New Mexico
Press, 2006) received the Ralph Emerson Twitchell Book
Award from the Historical Society of New Mexico and
the Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional
Library Association. Her latest book, Pablita Velarde:
In Her Own Words (Little Standing Spruce Publishing,
2012), is a full-length biography of this famous American
Indian painter.
Dr. Tisdale became interested in repatriation in the
early 1980s while working on her master’s thesis, which
resulted in a proposed repatriation policy for the School
of American Research (now the School for Advanced
Research). She reported on this at the Sacred Materials
Conference held at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in
1985 and has been actively involved in repatriation since.
She currently serves on the Smithsonian Institution’s
Repatriation Review Committee for the National
Museum of Natural History. She has also served on the
boards of the Society for Applied Anthropology and the
Mountain-Plains Museum Association.
FEATURED VOLUNTEER
Peggy Morris
Teacher. Nurturer. Awesome.
These few adjectives describe Peggy
Morris, but the list could go on and on.
Peggy has been a constant at the Center
for several years now, volunteering
her time – sometimes equaling hours
approximate to a full time job. It gives
us pleasure to highlight what she does
for the Center. Essentially, she is the
right hand woman to curator Jeanne
Brako, and is the student supervisor in
the museum area. Managing upward of
10 interns and work study employees
each semester, Peggy takes the students
under her wing. Not only can she teach
them the ways of handling artifacts and
rolling textiles, but she deeply cares for
these young people, and often relays life
lessons and lends an ear to them as they
move through their college experience.
She’s even provided a Thanksgiving
meal to a student who couldn’t go
home for the holidays! And soup to
the sick, stuck in their dorm rooms!
As proficient as she is in working
with the museum collections, it is
her passion for the students and their
experience in getting hands-on training
to take into the “real world” that
really drives her. She is a successful
fundraiser through the San Juan Basin
Archaeological Society – providing
two paid internships per semester to
students through the John W. Sanders
Scholarship Fund. Through her efforts
and the support of the SJBAS members,
the Center has been able to fund more
than 10 paid interns. The students gain
knowledge and experience that they can
put on their resumes, meet people in
their field of study, and move confidently
into the work force. That is the end goal,
Peggy Morris and intern Matt Metrulas at
work with museum collections.
and is one that is quite rewarding for the
students – and for Peggy.
It doesn’t stop there. Peggy also volunteers
for the 9 Health Fair and is an active
beekeeper and gardener with her husband
Dennis Lopez (also an awesome guy!).
The next time you see Peggy, give her a
hug. She is invaluable to us in so many
ways, and has really touched the lives of
our students. Bravo!
NEW STAFF AT THE CENTER
Elizabeth Quinn – Collections Manager/ Registrar
Liz joined the Center of Southwest Studies’ staff as collections manager/
registrar in early February. She comes to the Center with over seven years
of collections management experience. Her most recent position was as the
collections manager at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
in Santa Fe, NM. While at the Wheelwright, she had the honor of being
part of the opening of the museum’s first permanent exhibit gallery which
is dedicated to the study of southwestern Native American jewelry. Prior
to that position, she worked at the Bureau of Land Management’s Anasazi
Heritage Center in Dolores, CO. She holds an M.A. in public history from
Loyola University Chicago in Chicago, Illinois and a B.A. in history from
Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. In her spare time she likes
to get outside and explore the Four Corners and spend time with family and
friends. Liz is very excited to be part of such a dynamic team and to work
with the Center’s diverse collections, which help preserve and educate the
public about the history of the Southwest.
Michael Long – Library and Archives Technician
Michael joined the Delaney Library in May 2014, transitioning from
intern to part-time staff to full-time by summer 2015. He is a long time
resident of the area and attended Fort Lewis College, receiving a B.A. in
world history. He has continued his love of history by applying it to the
library and research field. In his passion for history, Michael is dedicated to
helping students and assisting patrons with whatever questions they might
have and finding answers to the wide array of inquiries presented from our
researchers. Michael’s service in the United States Army from 1999 to 2006
brings additional depth and experience to the Center’s team and he is often
involved in Veterans Affairs and speaking events in the area and on campus
as a personal resource about Veterans topics and issues.
THE CENTER WELCOMES DOCTORAL FELLOWS
Joshua Salyers – University of Arizona
This year’s doctoral fellowship in southwest history is Joshua Salyers.
He comes by way of a collaborative effort between the Center and
the graduate program in history at the University of Arizona. Josh
is spending the academic year in residence at the Center conducting
dissertation research and writing, in addition to teaching in the
College’s Department of History. For his dissertation, Josh continues
to research and use Computer-Aided Design, Building Information
Modeling, and gaming software to create 3D interactive historical
environments, in this case a Mexico City tenement. This research
is based on a community featured in The Children of Sanchez
by Oscar Lewis.
Zachary Adams – Southern Methodist University
In collaboration with the Fort Lewis College Department of
History, Zachary Adams is our spring teaching fellow by way of
SMU. Originally from New England, Zak has since relocated to
Dallas, Texas, where he is currently writing his Ph. D. dissertation,
a comparative work looking into the complex national identities
brought forth by the Mexican Revolution and Irish fight for
independence, set within the backdrop of American nationalism
during and after World War I.
While at Fort Lewis College, Zak is teaching U.S. History,
1877-present, capturing much of the period that he is most interested
in. The second course, U.S. Environmental History, follows a more
personal interest not directly related to his research. He has also taken
advantage of his connection with the Center to conduct research on
Mexican and Mexican American people at the Nettie Lee Benson
Latin American Collection in Austin, Texas, and will be reviewing the
newspaper holdings of the Center’s archives by the end of
spring semester.
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT
Our students here at the Center of Southwest Studies are indispensable in
accomplishing all of the museum’s projects and day-to-day activities. This
past semester in the museum has been no exception. The semester began
with the opening of a new exhibit, Thunder in Our Voices, and with
the return of the Durango Collection® show from the Fowler Museum at
UCLA. Other projects have included ongoing cataloging and database
work, photography of collections, measuring prehistoric ceramics, a much
needed cleanup project in the workroom, and more.
New interns,
Abby Kinder,
Matt Metrulas,
Jeanne Brako with Jed Smith and Cheyenne
and Kami
Caraway at graduation, December 2015
Richter along
with new work
study students Izzy Mc Tighe and Geremiah Skeet worked
with longtime volunteer, Peggy Morris, to document the
returning items from the Fowler Museum as well as rolling
and cycling the incoming textiles through the freezer. They
have also taken on the process of measuring prehistoric
ceramic collections to complete our database records,
continued a project to create custom storage for the Tupper
ceramics collections, and built shelves and shelf liners for our
new, more organized, workroom system.
the other students who stepped in as gallery attendants.
Returning work study students, Genna Novodvorsky, Ryan
Mullen, and Cassidy Ransom continued their work on the
database and with the collection records. They’ve made sure
that incoming loans and accessions were documented and
entered into the database, the collection files are in good
working order, and the digital photographs are organized and
added to the database. Andrew Kendziorski has continued
his work scanning the Homer Root ledgers. Patrick Burtt has
helped keep the gallery doors open to visitors with the help of
Finally, we’d like to take a moment to say thank you and
express our well wishes to our students who recently
graduated, Jed Smith and Cheyenne Caraway. Jed was with us
from his freshman year to graduation day. His craft and skills
grew remarkably well, and he became a wonderful student
leader. Special thanks to you Jed!
Riley Burchill is wrapping up a long standing project she
began as a San Juan Basin Archaeological Society paid
intern. She, along with the help of our Animas High School
intern, Kate Hallin, have been getting the North McElmo
lithics collection prepared to return to the Bureau of Land
Management’s Anasazi Heritage Center. This has involved
locating items throughout the collections, gathering them
together, matching them to AHC records, and packing them
for return.
Student volunteer, Georgiana Pongyesva, has been working
with the contemporary art collections creating artist files as a
reference for potential researchers.
And a HUGE thank you to all of our students and amazing
volunteers! We couldn’t do it without you!
MUSEUM VOLUNTEERS, INTERNS
AND WORK STUDY STUDENTS
Work study
Interns
Volunteers
Patrick Burtt
Matt Metrulas
Georgiana Pongyesva
Genna Novodvorsky
Abby Kinder
Peggy Morris
Isabella Mc Tighe
Kami Richter
Doug Ramsey
Cassidy Ransom
Riley Burchell
Peggy Lynch
Ryan Mullen
Kate Hallin, Animas High Kelly Ritter
Geremiah Skeet
Jed Smith
John Edens
Andrew Kendziorski
Cheyenne Caraway
Phil Settles
Emily Librock
Brie Banowetz
Photos: CSWS student field trip to the Anasazi Heritage Center this March.
DELANEY LIBRARY NEWS
Delaney Library is proud to be currently working on the maintenance of our collection. For years we took in
everything we could as only a research library, and as of late we have become a circulating library. We are
currently evaluating our entire collection for public circulation to local patrons beyond the campus body. In
doing this thus far, we have reorganized our serials collections, discovering some special gems such as magazines
dating back to the turn of the 20th century, providing primary resource insight into the Southwest’s history. After
processing the large Jim Ayers collection we received from Arizona, we now have many more sources on Arizona
history and archaeology waiting to be discovered by our researchers, including many rare reports and unique, firsthand accounts of local histories and historiographies.
Recently, we assisted Mountain Middle School 8th
graders in researching Kit Carson in preparation for a
mock trial, which they will conduct at the courthouse.
They hope to determine whether Kit Carson was a
condemnable character of the Southwest or not, a
topic some historians have tackled previously, but have
not received much support for due to the mindset of
undermining American history and heroism, a complex
and critical task for 8th graders. Delaney Library staff
is elated that our resources are being used to create new
outreach to our public and community patrons and we
look forward to developing relationships with our patrons
Students Abby Kinder and Emily Rickard process collections with
Michael Long in the Library.
in their future research. We encourage all researchers
to come in as we house, not just biographies and
monographs, but many special reports as well, ranging
from environmental impact statements to archaeology
and ethnography. Have little ones? Bring them in to
peruse the growing children’s collection. We have many
items on diverse topics focusing on the Southwest,
and encourage anyone wanting to do primary resource
research to come in and delve into our stacks, and meet
with our staff for additional research assistance.
by Michael Long
Mountain Middle School utilizes the resources of the Delaney
Library for their Kit Carson mock trial assignment.
ARCHIVAL TREASURES
The archives has received a number of great donations and
we have been involved in a variety of interesting projects
since the last newsletter.
This year Purgatory Resort celebrated its 50th anniversary and
the Center worked with current and former employees to start a
collection of objects, photographs and oral histories to mark the
occasion. A book, Close to Heaven: 50 Years of Purgatory, was also
developed to highlight the anniversary utilizing numerous photos
and oral histories to tell the story of Purgatory’s history.
Another significant collection in the process of being donated to
the Center includes papers and photographs documenting the
development of the Civilian Conservation Corp. Community
member John Irish has been collecting and organizing material
from the CCC and other Conservation Corp organizations to
donate to the Center. The Four Corners had a number of CCC
projects and this donation will help numerous researchers and
students.
During the summer of 2015, the archives supervised two
graduate students, Claire Perrott and Osciel Salazar, on a project
to document items in our Ansel Hall collection regarding the
Rainbow Bridge/Monument Valley Expedition. This project is
part of a larger project working with other institutions that have
material from the expedition and the information gathered will
be used to create a comprehensive database of material.
This past fall, the archives worked with Dr. Michael Martin of
the History Department to develop a collection for Dr. Martin’s
archival class to process. The class, HIST 345 Archival Theory
and Practice, had 24 students who processed twenty-four boxes
and created the initial finding aid for Collection M033, the
Scott McInnis Papers. The congressman’s collection contains
approximately one hundred boxes of records and will provide
enough work for several more of Dr. Martin’s students to gain
hands-on experience for their public history emphasis.
Abby Kinder, a public history intern, sorts nitrate
negatives for scanning.
Currently, the Center of Southwest Studies is working in
partnership with the college’s main library, Reed Library, to
create a digital archive with the assistance of the Marmot Library
Network. The purpose of the Marmot Digital Archive is to
provide access and context to the diverse digital collections of
Marmot members alongside other library holdings such as books
and scholarly journals. Preservation goals of the Marmot Digital
Archive is to create and preserve geographically dispersed digital
copies of rare, unique, and unstable items. Access goals of the
repository are to provide online availability on a worldwide
scale, to make digitized items available in the library
catalog (rather than on a separate website) which
increases discoverability. Since the Center’s archive is in
partnership with libraries across Colorado, items will
be available alongside contextually relevant materials
from other archives and libraries. The archive plans to
expand its audience in the next few years by exposing
metadata to aggregators such as the Digital Public
Library of America.
The archives received a generous $5000 donation
from Susan Dalton and the Dalton Family Foundation
in Telluride in the past year to help preserve and
organize collections.
The Center also secured additional funds from the
San Juan National Forest and their friends group,
the San Juan Mountains Association, to continue
scanning historical documents from the national forest.
Graduate intern, Katelyn Weber, from Colorado State
University worked at the Center during the summer of
2015 to start organizing the digitized items from the
San Juan National Forest Scanning Project. Katelyn
researched finding aids from other institutions and
collections to develop a finding aid for the items in the
San Juan National Forest collection.
Finally, the archives was awarded a grant of $4,000
to begin digitizing over 4000 nitrate negatives from
the Walker Art Studio photo collection. This grant
is supported in part by an award from the Colorado
Historical Records Advisory Board, through funding
from the National Historical Publications and Records
Commission (NHPRC), National Archives Records
Administration.
by Nik Kendziorski
Long-time archives volunteer Bud Davis enjoys his work at
the Center, and is always willing to share a joke and a laugh.
LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES VOLUNTEERS,
INTERNS AND WORK-STUDY STUDENTS
Volunteers
Bud Davis
Paula Wiseman
Lew Matis
Mike Todt
Esther Greenfield
Linda Daley
Masters/Graduate Interns
Katelyn Weber
Jesus Osciel Salazar
Claire Perrott
Public History Program Interns
Christian Sacoman
George Usinowicz
Dylan Sadler
Abby Kinder
Georgie Pongyesva
Doctoral Fellow
Josh Salyers
Work-Study Students
Amber Harwig
Alva Claussen
Madalyn Chamberlain
Andy Barrish
Brittney Stevens
Rayna Henry
Elaine Severson
Lauren Traylor
Emily Rickard
Allie Boom
EXHIBITS
2015 was “The Year of the Traveling Exhibit” for the Museum at the
Center of Southwest Studies. Exhibits were here, there and everywhere!
Our Mountain Lion! exhibit prowled the West, visiting the ski mecca of
Park City, and the Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter, and then headed to
the sunny California coast, landing at Muzeo, a prime venue in Anaheim.
That’s right; we competed with Disneyland! Also, California statutes
decree mountain lions as specially protected animals making it unlawful
to possess, transport, or import any mountain lion or any part or product
thereof. Try telling that to our exhibit wranglers and design team! No laws
were broken, and we succeeded in pulling together a great show.
Well, The Durango Collection® didn’t want to be left out, so it too made the
trek to California for a three month spot at the Fowler Museum at UCLA.
Their amazing crew customized the textile installation with hand-dyed rope
loom warps for a peek-through look at Southwest weavings. I’d like to say
that the line-up of visitors outside the Fowler all came out for my textile
talk, but it also happened to be Pie Day, which brought many people to the
museum for a full day of events. Can we have a Pie Day, too?
And, here at home, we were visited by Rare II, an exhibit of botanical
illustration from the Society of Rocky Mountain Botanical Illustrators. This
traveling exhibit was the second in their “Rare” series to show at the Center
of Southwest Studies. We couldn’t ask for a better exhibit partner.
Currently we have two traveling exhibits on view in the Center’s museum
galleries. Time Exposures is from Isleta Pueblo, just south of Albuquerque,
and Thunder in our Voices is visiting from Canada, and the Center is excited
to be the first American venue for this show. These exhibitions are part of
our “second 50 years” initiative to be highly inclusive of exhibits that are
focused on the Native voice. What makes these exhibitions unique is that
they are curated and travelled by the tribes. Please make the trip to the
Center to visit these notable exhibitions.
Top to Bottom: 1) “Mountain Lion!” display
case at Muzeo 2) CSWS crew unloads “Time
Exposures” 3) Swaner Eco Center exhibit crew
with Jeanne Brako
“Durango Collection®” at the Fowler Museum.
Left to right:
1) “Mountain Lion!”
install at Swaner
Eco Center
2) Lions on the loose
at Muzeo
3) Isleta Pueblo
representatives at
“Time Exposures”
opening night
Panoramic of “Durango Collection®” at the Fowler Museum
I thought I’d give you a snapshot of what it’s like to be a roadie for traveling exhibits.
It’s not the same view you see once the exhibit is installed in the galleries, and open
to the public. It takes a lot of pushing, pulling and muscle, which we were happy to
have on all of the crews that we worked with this year.
Image from “Thunder”
Photo Credit: Linda MacCannell
Thanks to everyone for your help and support, and for all the heavy lifting! We’re
looking forward to future travel opportunities to promote the Center of Southwest
Studies and its important collections.
by Jeanne Brako
A VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO
JACK TOWNES
Jack is our exhibit prepator (he makes us looks good!). He works very diligently
behind-the-scenes in pulling the fussy parts of our exhibitions together, all the while
training our students in his specialized craft of exhibit design and installation.
Cheers Jack!
This is Jack. He enjoys good pizza and
better beer. He is not afraid of lions.
PARKS, PEOPLE, PRESERVATION:
Celebrating the National Park Service in the Southwest
Wallace Stegner, a writer and historian, once stated that national parks were “the best idea we ever had.” The act
that created the National Park Service was authorized on August 25, 1916 and the country will be celebrating its
centennial on August 25, 2016.
The Center of Southwest Studies is developing an exhibit
and juried photography show to celebrate the National
Park Service’s centennial. We will showcase some of
our collections, such as photographs, postcards, books
and artifacts that relate to the national parks, national
monuments and national historical parks that are located
in the Southwest, featuring the Four Corners states. The
archives will highlight early glass plate negative images
of Mesa Verde National Park and Hovenweep National
Monument, postcards from Mesa Verde and Aztec Ruins
National Monument and photographs from Chaco
Canyon National Historical Park.
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, from the Jack
Cooper Photograph Collection.
Additionally, the Center will host a juried photography
show within the exhibit, highlighting the talent of our
regional photographers as well as the preservation and
beauty of NPS sites in the Four Corners states. For more
information please visit the Center’s website http://
swcenter.fortlewis.edu. Deadline for entries is June 2nd
at 7 p.m.
There will be a Members Only behind-the-scenes sneak
peek of the exhibit as it is being installed on June 20th,
immediately following our annual Summer Solstice
Window Viewing event. The opening reception for the
public will occur Thursday, June 23 from 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Top: Pen-Dike Studio postcard, 1906, “Nina Heald Webber
Southwest Colorado Collection,” M19430007. Bottom: Glass plate
negative of Hovenweep National Monument, circa early 1900’s,
“Walker Art Studio Collection,” P0422488.
Hand colored lantern slide of Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, circa 1930’s, “Nina Heald
Webber Southwest Photographs Collection at the Center of Southwest Studies,” P056LS026.
CSWS MEMBERSHIP
Thank you to our CSWS Members.
As we strive to expand our outreach to the community and plan exciting new initiatives designed to make the Center
of Southwest Studies a vibrant and valued place of life-long learning we depend on the financial support of our valued
members. CSWS memberships directly support new and inspiring educational programs and high quality exhibits. We
could not present the exciting programs and exhibitions that we do without the generous ongoing support of our members
and we want to take this opportunity to thank you for being part of the CSWS family. Thank you!
$55 Basic Annual Membership enjoys free parking if you are not an employee or current student; advance
notice of exhibit openings, programs, and events; invitation to special member events; subscription to our Timelines
newsletter; 10% off retail items; 10% off archival reproductions; and special e-announcements of Center news.
$150 Sustaining Annual Membership receives all of the benefits listed above, plus 20% discount on archival
services; special behind-the-scene tours; and invitations to sustaining member events.
Basic Business Membership of $500 offers all of the above, plus your business website linked to the Center’s
improved website; and free meeting space twice a year.
Business Sponsorship of $1500 offers all of the above, plus free meeting space four times a year; and special
tours by staff for your special guests.
The Patron Circle Membership of $2000 or higher offers special benefits in addition to all the basics,
including exclusive behind-the-scenes and gallery tours; use of the remodeled Lupien Reception Room for your
special events; and personalized tours.
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Michael Long
Jean L. Theobald
Michael and Elaine Moravan
Jan Blanchard
Tom Towner
Diane Skinner
Peggy Lynch
John and Laura Ninnemann
Henry and Jeanne Hooper
Dick and Foxie Mason
Peter Norton and Judy Hodges
Susan and Mark Dalton
Peter and Deedee Decker
Louann Ball
Chuck and Cheryl Carson
Sandy Jackson
Frank Stapleton
Jerry and Jennifer Carney
Carol and David Grenoble
Helen Ruth Aspaas
Stephens and Geni Parker
Carolyn Bowra
Sarah and Ron Pretzer
Mary Jane Clark
Wayne Bedor
Ellie Cline
Jim Foster
Ulys Gardella
Maile Kane
Susan Davies
Barbara and Greg Martin
Shawn Collins
Ed Mead
Susan Koonce and John Lyons
Laura Mc Williams
John and Eliane Viner
Dr. Tom V David
Craig Nettleton
Harrold Shipps, Jr
Randy and Kathy Falkenhagen
Mark Franklin and Rose Chilcoat
Thomas Person and Janet Kastner
Peggy Zemach
John and Cissy Anderson
Paula Wiseman
Carey and Christine Scheberle
Elizabeth and Chap Petersen
Steven and Jane Short
Tom and Mary Ann Berry
Mike Todt
William and Jan Postler
Shaila Van Sickle
Laurel Rematore
Carol Nokes
Charles and Debra Lord
Sandra and Don Maple
Reese Miller
Pat Blair
Henry and Terry Stalker
Ann Brown
Dean Cox
Marilyn McCord
The Wells Group
Meredith and Carlisle Page
Pete and Tish Varney
John Edens
Mark Jastorff
Dick and Gail Grossman
James and Bernice Bowra
Beth Green
Margie and Will Gray
Peter Goldman and Beverly Werber
Eleanor Swent
Robert Mc Daniel and Jill Seyfarth
Janice Sheftel
Shelly Mann and Joel Jones
Kathy Fine and Byron Dare
John Sylvester
Frank Papovich
The Ballantine Family
Sally and Victor Bellerue
MUSEUM ACQUISITIONS
Since our last newsletter the Center has received many
exciting new collections. Bill and Sue Hensler continue
to donate contemporary Native art and other Native
art related collections. We’ve received an Indian Market
prize winning sculpture and basket, as well as, three
other sculptural works of art by Native artists from Ann
Mullin. There have been two more scheduled annual
donations of Mexican ceramics by Caroline Tupper.
And most recently, the Center has been fortunate to be
the recipient of two donations of Stanton Englehart
paintings from Leo Brooks. Of course, all of the
generous donations to the Center are greatly appreciated
and go a long way in helping us meet our collecting and
educational goals.
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The Center of Southwest Studies, a program of Fort Lewis College, was
established in 1964 through the support of Arthur & Morley Ballantine.
SOLSTICE EVENT
The Center will celebrate the
annual Summer Solstice Window
Viewing on Monday, June 20.
Doors will open at 6:00 a.m.
At the dawn of the summer solstice,
a spiral of sunlight makes its way
across the gallery walls making for
a dazzling display. In our annual
celebration of summer, the Center
of Southwest Studies will provide
light refreshments. Admission and
parking are free. This event is open
to the public.
Situated in the upper northeast
corner of the exhibit gallery, the
Solstice Window is recessed into
the wall. Created by Denver artist
Scott Parsons as a part of Colorado’s
Art in Public Places Program, the
window was integrated into the
building’s architecture. Parsons
designed the window in tribute to
the solstice markers of the Ancestral
Puebloans of Southwest Colorado.
The spiral cast by the Solstice
Window is visible for several
weeks before and after the summer
solstice, but it is sharpest on solstice
morning. Moving with the motion
of the earth and sun, the spiral
makes its journey across the gallery
wall, fading as the sun rises higher
in the sky.
The Center consistently provides
engaging lectures, events and outings
in the summer! Be sure to check our
website for up-to-date information,
coming soon!