Curators in Conversation | Water, Wind, Breath: Southwest Native Art in Community
Channel: Barnes Foundation
Date: 2022-03-01

About the Talk
Lucy Fowler Williams, Tony Chavarria, and Roxanne Swentzell | Water, Wind, Breath: Southwest Native Art in Community

Join guest co-curators Lucy Fowler Williams, associate curator-in-charge and Jeremy A. Sabloff Senior Keeper of the American Section, Penn Museum, and Tony Chavarria, curator of ethnology, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, in conversation with Pueblo artist Roxanne Swentzell about the living traditions of Southwest art and the concept of “water-wind-breath.”

The exhibition Water, Wind, Breath: Southwest Native Art in Community is on view February 20–May 15, 2022, in the Roberts Gallery at the Barnes Foundation

Biographies
Lucy Fowler Williams is associate curator-in-charge and Jeremy A. Sabloff Keeper of American Collections at the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia. Before coming to Penn, she trained at the Indian Arts Research Center of the School of American Research, Santa Fe, and at the University of New Mexico. Her recent curatorial projects include Native American Voices: The People—Here and Now (2014) at the Penn Museum and Paths of Beauty: Pueblo Embroidered Garments of Isabel Gonzales and Shawn Tafoya (2015) at the Poeh Center Museum, Pojoaque Pueblo, New Mexico. 

Tony Chavarria (Santa Clara Pueblo) is the curator of ethnology at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe. He has over 30 years of experience collaborating with tribes and curating Native material culture. He has curated many exhibitions at the museum, including Comic Art Indigéne (2008) and What’s New in New: Recent Acquisitions (2013). He is also co-curator for the first Native exhibition at Epcot Center, Creating Tradition: Innovation and Change in American Indian Art (2018–23). 

Born in Taos, New Mexico, Roxanne Swentzell (Santa Clara Pueblo) is a sculptor whose work addresses gender, culture, and environmental issues. Over her 40-year career, Swentzell has won numerous awards, including the 2011 Native Treasures Award (Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Santa Fe) and the 2016 Spirit of the Heard Award (Heard Museum, Phoenix). Her work is in the collections of national and international museums, including the Heard Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the Denver Art Museum, and the British Museum, London.

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