Planning News Team Univ. Jennifer McLerran, Interim Associate Director, Women Studies Program, and Thomas Patin, Assistant Professor, School of Art, are guest curators for the exhibit. Featuring a collection of Navajo weavings that are a part of the museum's Edwin L. and Ruth E. Kennedy Southwest Native American Collection and also including pieces from the private collection of Jennifer McLerran, the exhibit will be on display February 17 through April 29, 2001. The reception will be catered.
Admission is free and open to the public.
The exhibit focuses on a sandpainting weaving done by Hosteen Klah, a Navajo weaver and medicine man, and examines Klah's importance to the development of Navajo weaving. The relationship between gender and weaving in Navajo culture is also explored. Several other Navajo sandpainting, Yei, and pictorial weavings are included in the exhibit. He was especially important because he gave information to anthropologists and others about Navajo religion and ceremonial practices. He also gained great recognition as a weaver of unusual designs.