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DESCRIPTION:Shaped by the Loom is the first exhibition to showcase the Amer
 ican Museum of Natural History’s collection of Indigenous textiles from th
 e greater American Southwest. Placing Indigenous aesthetics and ways of kn
 owing at the center of Diné (Navajo) textile production\, it highlights th
 e localized and land-based knowledge systems that guide the process behind
  the finished product. This symposium\, organized around the exhibition’s 
 opening\, invites audiences into the world of Navajo weaving to hear direc
 tly from the artists\, cultural practitioners\, curators\, and scholars wh
 ose work has both informed and expanded this collaborative project.Schedul
 e9:30 amHadley Jensen (exhibition curator) and Peter Whiteley (American Mu
 seum of Natural History)Welcome and Introduction10 amLynda Teller Pete and
  Barbara Teller Ornelas (Diné textile artists)Dah iistłʼǫ́ bikéé’yiit’ash 
 (Our Journey with the Loom)10:30 amWade Campbell (Boston University)Indige
 nous Archaeological Evidence for Navajo Sheepherding in the Four Corners\,
  c. AD 1600–Present11 amCoffee Break11:20 amLarissa Nez (University of Cal
 ifornia\, Berkeley)We Are Alive: Restoring Meaning and Life to Navajo Weav
 ings11:50 amRapheal Begay (photographer)Visual Blessings: Photographs of L
 and\, Light\, and Love on the Navajo Nation12:20 pmRoundtablePresenters wi
 ll be joined by Darby Raymond-Overstreet (digital artist and printmaker) a
 nd Tyrrell Tapaha (fiber artist and weaver) for questions and conversation
 BiosRapheal Begay (Diné) is a visual storyteller based in Window Rock\, th
 e capital of the Navajo Nation. Through photography and curatorial initiat
 ives\, he intends to culturally express and creatively advocate for unders
 tanding and teaching found in the Diné (Navajo) way of life. In 2017 he ob
 tained his BFA in art studio with a minor in arts management and an underg
 raduate certificate in museum studies from the University of New Mexico\, 
 Albuquerque. Named by Southwest Contemporary as one of twelve New Mexico A
 rtists to Know in 2020\, Begay is the recipient of the 2021–22 Goodman Asp
 iring Artist Fellowship and works as a public information officer with the
  Navajo Nation Division of Human Resources Administration in Window Rock\,
  Arizona.Wade Campbell is a Diné (Navajo) historical archaeologist whose r
 esearch examines the relationships between Diné communities and other loca
 l groups in the US Southwest from the seventeenth century to the present d
 ay\, including the Pueblos\, Spanish\, and Americans. Campbell is engaged 
 with a range of questions related to longer-term patterns of Navajo settle
 ment and economic activity across the greater Four Corners region\, with a
  particular focus on incipient Indigenous pastoralism and related shifts i
 n land use\, social organization\,  and diet and subsistence practices.Had
 ley Jensen’s research addresses the intersections among fine art\, anthrop
 ology\, and material culture\, with a particular focus on Indigenous arts 
 of the North American Southwest. She is currently a research associate at 
 the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture\, Santa Fe\, New Mexico\, and in the
  Division of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History\, New 
 York. Her curatorial project Shaped by the Loom: Weaving Worlds in the Ame
 rican Southwest\, opening at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery\, New York\,
  in spring 2023\, is the first exhibition to showcase the American Museum 
 of Natural History’s collection of Diné (Navajo) textiles. Together\, she 
 and Rapheal Begay (Diné) are cocurators of Horizons: Weaving Between the L
 ines with Diné Textiles\, opening at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
  in summer 2023. Her work has been supported by the Autry Museum of the Am
 erican West\, Center for Craft\, Lunder Institute for American Art\, Smith
 sonian Institution’s National Anthropological Archives and National Museum
  of Natural History\, Terra Foundation for American Art\, Textile Society 
 of America\, and Wyeth Foundation for American Art. In addition\, she has 
 hands-on experience learning Indigenous weaving and natural-dyeing practic
 es\, which has strengthened and enlivened her work as an academic research
 er\, curator\, and teacher.Larissa Nez is an enrolled citizen of the Diné 
 (Navajo) Nation. She was born and raised in the Navajo Nation\, in a small
  community in northern Arizona. She is of the Mud People and was born to t
 he Mountain Cove People. Her maternal grandfather is of the Red Running in
 to the Water People\, and her paternal grandfather is of the Big Water Peo
 ple. Larissa earned her BA in art history with a minor in sociology from t
 he University of Notre Dame and her MA in public humanities from Brown Uni
 versity. She is currently a PhD student in ethnic studies at the Universit
 y of California\, Berkeley. Her research explores the intersections betwee
 n art history\, cultural studies\, critical theory\, Indigenous studies\, 
 and Black studies.Barbara Teller Ornelas (Diné) is a fifth-generation mast
 er Navajo weaver and culture bearer\, who sold her first rug when she was 
 only ten years old. Her father\, Sam Teller (1918–2000)\, was a Diné (Nava
 jo) trader for thirty-two years and her mother\, Ruth Teller (1928–2014)\,
  was a weaver\, gardener\, quilter\, and photographer. When Ornelas was te
 n\, her paternal grandmother dreamt that her granddaughter would become a 
 great weaver who shared their traditions around the world. Fifty-six years
  later\, Ornelas has not only honed her artistry as a Two Grey Hills weave
 r but shared it with audiences internationally in the form of workshops\, 
 lectures\, and exhibitions.Lynda Teller Pete (Diné) is an award-winning\, 
 fifth-generation weaver\, who is best known for using a traditional Two Gr
 ey Hills regional style. Instilled in her work from the age of six\, when 
 Pete was officially introduced to weaving\, is the belief that beauty and 
 harmony should be woven into every rug. Along with her weaving\, she colla
 borates with art centers\, guilds\, museums\, universities\, and other ven
 ues to educate the public about Diné (Navajo) history and the preservation
  of Navajo weaving traditions. Together with her sister Barbara Teller Orn
 elas\, she wrote Spider Woman’s Children: Navajo Weavers Today (2018)\, th
 e first book written about Diné weavers by Diné weavers since the time of 
 Spanish and colonial contacts\, as well as How to Weave a Navajo Rug and O
 ther Lessons from Spider Woman (2020). Pete is also the director of equity
  and inclusion at the Textile Society of America.Darby Raymond-Overstreet 
 (Diné) is an award-winning digital artist and printmaker. Born in Tuba Cit
 y\, Arizona\, and raised in Flagstaff\, Arizona\, she is a proud member of
  the Navajo Nation. She received her BA in psychology and studio art and g
 raduated with honors from Dartmouth College\, Hanover\, New Hampshire\, in
  2016. She currently resides in Chimayó\, New Mexico\, and through her wor
 k she studies\, works with\, and creates Navajo pattern designs that mater
 ialize through portraits\, landscapes\, and abstract forms. Her work is he
 avily inspired by and derived from traditional Navajo textiles\, with part
 icular interest in pieces woven in the late 1800s to the 1950s.Tyrrell Tap
 aha is a Diné weaver and fiber artist from Goat Springs\, Arizona. Their w
 ork encompasses the intergenerational pastoral living handed down through 
 Tapaha’s grandfather\, great-grandmother\, and other relatives willing to 
 teach. Tapaha produces woven textiles and felted objects for both aestheti
 c and utilitarian uses. These textiles are made with raw natural fibers pr
 edominantly grown on the Navajo Nation and hand-dyed with local flora from
  the Four Corners Region. Tapaha’s weavings are tied to a life lived and i
 ntimately interwoven with feelings\, memories\, and experiences. Tapaha ha
 s worked as an apprentice with master weaver Roy Kady.  In addition to the
 ir fiber and textile work\, Tapaha also works full-time as a sheep herder 
 in the Four Corners region of the Navajo Nation.CreditsThis program was or
 ganized in conjunction with the spring 2023 exhibition Shaped by the Loom:
  Weaving Worlds in the American Southwest. Support for the exhibition is g
 enerously provided by Art BridgesAdditional support provided by the Henry 
 Luce Foundation\, the Wyeth Foundation for American Art and other donors t
 o Bard Graduate CenterThis project is supported in part by the National En
 dowment for the Arts.Special thanks to American Museum of Natural History.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Ecologies of Making: Knowledge and Process in
  Navajo Weaving
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