DURANGO, CO – October 7, 2011 – The Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College celebrates a decade of progress and partnerships, as this year marks the tenth anniversary of the opening of the Center’s state-of-the-art building. A special Tenth Anniversary Building Celebration will be held on Thursday, October 13th, with a public open house from 4:30pm to 6:30pm. Opening remarks begin at 5:00pm, followed by a special presentation by local, award winning author, Jack Turner, on his book, “Landscapes on Glass: Lantern Slides of the Rainbow Bridge – Monument Valley Expedition”. This celebration is free and open to the public.
The Center of Southwest Studies opened the doors of its 50,000 square-foot building in 2001. It houses the Center’s museum/gallery space and the summer solstice window, the Delaney Southwest Research Library and archival collections, an auditorium for public lectures, the Departments of Anthropology and Native American and Indigenous Studies, and the Office of Community Services. The building was in part funded by the local community, under the leadership of the late Mrs. Morley Ballantine, who chaired the fund-raising campaign and was the founding donor of the Center, along with her husband Arthur.
Established in 1964, the Ballantines and former college president, Dr. John Reed, together envisioned a repository for artifacts, resource materials, books, records and documents that could be used for research of the history and development of the Southwestern United States.
The Center of Southwest Studies collections include the famed Durango Collection, ® which holds old and rare textiles spanning eight centuries. Other collections consist of Native American basketry, contemporary Southwestern art, Ancestral Puebloan ceramics, historic maps and photographs, rare books and ephemera, microfilm, and manuscripts- including personal papers of Congressional and state leaders, and some civic records.
The Center of Southwest Studies was the first research center in the country to focus exclusively on the Southwest, and is regarded as holding one of the best archival collections of any undergraduate institution in the West.
The Center of Southwest Studies opened the doors of its 50,000 square-foot building in 2001. It houses the Center’s museum/gallery space and the summer solstice window, the Delaney Southwest Research Library and archival collections, an auditorium for public lectures, the Departments of Anthropology and Native American and Indigenous Studies, and the Office of Community Services. The building was in part funded by the local community, under the leadership of the late Mrs. Morley Ballantine, who chaired the fund-raising campaign and was the founding donor of the Center, along with her husband Arthur.
Established in 1964, the Ballantines and former college president, Dr. John Reed, together envisioned a repository for artifacts, resource materials, books, records and documents that could be used for research of the history and development of the Southwestern United States.
The Center of Southwest Studies collections include the famed Durango Collection, ® which holds old and rare textiles spanning eight centuries. Other collections consist of Native American basketry, contemporary Southwestern art, Ancestral Puebloan ceramics, historic maps and photographs, rare books and ephemera, microfilm, and manuscripts- including personal papers of Congressional and state leaders, and some civic records.
The Center of Southwest Studies was the first research center in the country to focus exclusively on the Southwest, and is regarded as holding one of the best archival collections of any undergraduate institution in the West.
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