The Center of Southwest Studies celebrates the beginning of summer with annual Solstice event
DURANGO, CO – JUNE 13, 2011 – The Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College celebrates the Summer Solstice on Tuesday, June 21, 2011, from 5:45AM till 7:00AM. At the dawn of the summer solstice, a spiral of sunlight makes its way across the gallery walls making for a dazzling display. Admission and parking are free. Light refreshments will be provided.
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.
4/26/2011
4/11/2011
Center to reduce summer hours
April 11, 2011 - Due to reduced funding, the Center will reduce some public hours beginning Monday, May 2nd. At that time the Center's gallery will be closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, but open Wednesday - Friday 1:00 - 4:00pm, and Saturdays 12 noon - 4:00pm. After Saturday, May 28th, the Center will no longer offer Saturday hours, at least through August 2011.
Also, the Delaney Research Library will reduce hours beginning Monday, May 2nd. The library will be closed Mondays and Tuesdays, and open only Wednesdays - Fridays from 1:00pm - 4:00pm, at least through the remainder of the summer. Check back in August for updated hours of operation. Thank you for your understanding.
Also, the Delaney Research Library will reduce hours beginning Monday, May 2nd. The library will be closed Mondays and Tuesdays, and open only Wednesdays - Fridays from 1:00pm - 4:00pm, at least through the remainder of the summer. Check back in August for updated hours of operation. Thank you for your understanding.
4/01/2011
Center of Southwest Studies and Durango Arts Center partner to exhibit Images of the Southwest Juried Photo Show
April 1, 2011- Durango, CO – The Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College has partnered with the Durango Arts Center to exhibit the Images of the Southwest Juried Photography Show. This year’s theme is Animals Rule!, featuring all types of furry, feathered and reptilian creatures that also call the Southwest home. An opening reception will be held Friday, April 8th at the Durango Arts Center from 5:00-7:00pm. Photo submissions are open to amateur, semi-professional, and professional photographers alike, with a special category for students. Awards include a $100 First Prize in both Color and Black and White Photography, a $50 First Prize in Student Photography, as well as a $200 Best in Show Prize. These prizes will be announced at Friday’s opening. This year’s show was juried by local wildlife photographer Robert Winslow. The Images of the Southwest photography show was developed in 2003 by the Center of Southwest Studies to recognize the great number of excellent visual artists in Durango and the Four Corners area.
Photo credit: Robert Winslow
3/23/2011
Celebrate Hozhoni Days with us on March 25th!
Celebrate Hozhoni Days by joining the Center of Southwest Studies as we open two new exhibits featuring Native American artists!Center of Southwest Studies - Delaney Library
Friday, March 25, from 3pm – 5pm, just before the Pow-Wow!
Light refreshments will be served.
Virgil Ortiz: Visionary Artist (Left Image)
This exhibit features contemporary native artist Virgil Ortiz, who blends tradition with edgy provocation in his art as well as his fashion designs. This exhibit is developed by student library assistant Emilio Diaz.
World-renown Cochiti Pueblo artist Virgil Ortiz has taken the entire genre of Native American art to new levels. His intricate designs blur the line between the appropriate and provocative and the beautiful and grotesque; making Virgil one of the most unique and talked about artists today.
In honor of Hozhoni Days, Virgil is pleased to extend a 50% savings on any VO Fashion item. Visit http://www.virgilortiz.com/ and enter promo code VOHOZ at the time of checkout – offer only valid March 23–26, 2011 and includes FREE SHIPPING!
Visual Re-Count: A Boarding School Era Retrospective as Seen Through Native Youth (Right Image)
In this art installation, Diné (Navajo) sisters - Ruthie, Sierra, Chamisa and Santana Edd - examine the Federal Indian policy of educating Native American children. These young artists address the disruptions to tribal life when children were removed from homes and placed in government-run boarding schools. For inspiration, they draw upon their own experiences of acculturation as residents of Durango, as well as the boarding school experiences of their grandparents.
To see more work by the Edd Sisters, visit eddgirlart.weebly.com.
3/17/2011
The Real Savages opens March 18
The Center of Southwest Studies to present a new exhibit, The Real Savages
DURANGO, CO – March 11, 2011 - The Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College will open a new exhibit on March 18th, The Real Savages. This exhibit presents a viewpoint of how propaganda and American stereotypes have influenced and impacted Native American cultures and identities. Juxtaposing stereotypical, visual images with historical facts, this exhibit explores the experience of culture assimilation, identity and knowledge.
The Real Savages began as a Fort Lewis College student independent study project by graphic design major, Babe Lansing, who also Ute Mountain Ute. The project was inspired after a summer semester in Germany studying propaganda in art. Art professor Paul Booth facilitated both the summer semester, and Lansing’s project. What resulted from dedicated research and creativity was a student exhibition, first displayed in the Fort Lewis College Art Department. “My ideas and motives have come from a variety of sources and influences within my own life and culture. I am pleased to see that the overall final product has exceeded by far what I expected when I first started this project,” says Lansing.
Impressed, the Center of Southwest Studies staff invited the exhibit to the Center’s gallery space, in part to augment the story of Indian boarding schools, which is touched upon in the Center’s new exhibit Frontier Blues: The Legacy of Fort Lewis College, also opening on March 18th as a part of the college Centennial celebration.
An opening reception for both exhibits will be held Friday, March 18, from 4:00-6:00pm at the Center of Southwest Studies Gallery, on the campus of Fort Lewis College. The event is free and open to the public, with light refreshments provided.
DURANGO, CO – March 11, 2011 - The Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College will open a new exhibit on March 18th, The Real Savages. This exhibit presents a viewpoint of how propaganda and American stereotypes have influenced and impacted Native American cultures and identities. Juxtaposing stereotypical, visual images with historical facts, this exhibit explores the experience of culture assimilation, identity and knowledge.
The Real Savages began as a Fort Lewis College student independent study project by graphic design major, Babe Lansing, who also Ute Mountain Ute. The project was inspired after a summer semester in Germany studying propaganda in art. Art professor Paul Booth facilitated both the summer semester, and Lansing’s project. What resulted from dedicated research and creativity was a student exhibition, first displayed in the Fort Lewis College Art Department. “My ideas and motives have come from a variety of sources and influences within my own life and culture. I am pleased to see that the overall final product has exceeded by far what I expected when I first started this project,” says Lansing.
Impressed, the Center of Southwest Studies staff invited the exhibit to the Center’s gallery space, in part to augment the story of Indian boarding schools, which is touched upon in the Center’s new exhibit Frontier Blues: The Legacy of Fort Lewis College, also opening on March 18th as a part of the college Centennial celebration.
An opening reception for both exhibits will be held Friday, March 18, from 4:00-6:00pm at the Center of Southwest Studies Gallery, on the campus of Fort Lewis College. The event is free and open to the public, with light refreshments provided.
2/28/2011
New exhibit, Frontier Blues: The Legacy of Fort Lewis College, to open March 18th
With the college celebrating its one-hundredth year as an educational institution, the Center of Southwest Studies was compelled to create an exhibit honoring the diverse history of Fort Lewis College and the role it served in early, rural education in the West. The exhibit, Frontier Blues: The Legacy of Fort Lewis College, revisits the school’s unique story, fostering a reconnection to local and regional history, and perhaps answering questions about our educational mission.
Visitors walk through different time periods, representative of the various chapters of the institution’s past. Native peoples of the region used the land near what is now Hesperus, Colorado long before the Army established Fort Lewis on the banks of the La Plata River in 1880. Lasting just over a decade, the military marched out of the area in 1891, and the property was turned into Fort Lewis Indian School. The Indian School era ended in 1910 when the boarding school style of Native education fell out of favor. However that same year, the State of Colorado Congress established the property of Fort Lewis School as an institution of learning, and Native students would be admitted free of charge and on the same terms of equality as white pupils. Twenty students were enrolled in the new Fort Lewis High School by the fall of 1911, offering a range of classes to young people of the region. College level courses were added in 1927, and by 1933 Fort Lewis Junior College was fully established. Fort Lewis A&M moved to Durango in 1956 caused a bit of a stir in town, but made more sense financially and helped to recruit students. Fortitude and hard work would become hallmarks of the school’s heritage.
Today we can celebrate the dedication of so many, allowing the school to grow and prosper as an educational institution these past one hundred years. The opening reception for Frontier Blues: The Legacy of Fort Lewis College will be held Friday, March 18, from 4:00pm-6:00pm, at the Center of Southwest Studies Gallery. This event is free and open to the public.
Visitors walk through different time periods, representative of the various chapters of the institution’s past. Native peoples of the region used the land near what is now Hesperus, Colorado long before the Army established Fort Lewis on the banks of the La Plata River in 1880. Lasting just over a decade, the military marched out of the area in 1891, and the property was turned into Fort Lewis Indian School. The Indian School era ended in 1910 when the boarding school style of Native education fell out of favor. However that same year, the State of Colorado Congress established the property of Fort Lewis School as an institution of learning, and Native students would be admitted free of charge and on the same terms of equality as white pupils. Twenty students were enrolled in the new Fort Lewis High School by the fall of 1911, offering a range of classes to young people of the region. College level courses were added in 1927, and by 1933 Fort Lewis Junior College was fully established. Fort Lewis A&M moved to Durango in 1956 caused a bit of a stir in town, but made more sense financially and helped to recruit students. Fortitude and hard work would become hallmarks of the school’s heritage.
Today we can celebrate the dedication of so many, allowing the school to grow and prosper as an educational institution these past one hundred years. The opening reception for Frontier Blues: The Legacy of Fort Lewis College will be held Friday, March 18, from 4:00pm-6:00pm, at the Center of Southwest Studies Gallery. This event is free and open to the public.
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