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Passage and Discovery: the Southwest Studies Major Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Colorado Springs, CO 14 East Cache La Poudre Street Permit No. 105 Colorado Springs, CO 80903 Vol. XVIII, No. 3 Fall 2002 Passage and Discovery: The Southwest Studies Major Tracey Clark, Southwest Studies Major (’03), Colorado Springs, CO Early June, and I’m headed south from Taos, New Mexico, into a context that has remained with me to this day. That class toward Santa Fe. It is day one of a seven-day research trip into lit the spark that would later result in my decision to major in the heart of the Southwest. The morning sunlight cuts a clear Southwest Studies. I would not make that decision for another path to the western horizon, illuminating the gaping mouth of year and a half, after first declaring myself an art history major. I the Rio Grande gorge. This sight never fails to inspire me. With am grateful that I have developed a firm foundation in art history awe and anticipation, I wonder what awaits me on this journey. because I feel that it strengthens my studies now and will be a I am a fourth-year non-traditional student at Colorado benefit when I continue on to graduate school. College and a Liberal Arts and Sciences major with an emphasis Being a Southwest Studies major has allowed me the flexibility in Southwest Studies. My focus of study is Art and Culture of the and freedom to define my own interests and choose my classes Fall 2002 Southwest, specifically pottery of the Pueblo people. My decision accordingly. Based on the requirements for the major and my own to become a Southwest Studies major and my time at Colorado preferences, I have taken classes from the history, anthropology, College to date have been a wonderful process. art history, English, and religion departments, all cross-listed I was born in Pueblo, as Southwest Studies courses. Colorado. My father’s Other favorites have been passion has always been “Navajo Narrative Traditions” archaeology and undoubtedly with Susan Scarberry-Garcia Sandweiss to Deliver Norman Lecture that is how my interest in and “Geographic Inquiry in the material culture of the the Southwest” with Hillary Southwest began. As a child, Chuck Borders by Photo Hamann, who introduced The Hulbert Center is pleased to announce that this year’s American West, to be published in October by the Yale University I visited Bandelier National me to the wonders of GIS Andrew Norman Endowed Guest Lecture Series speaker will Press. She has also written numerous articles, essays, and book Monument in New Mexico (Geographic Information be Martha A. Sandweiss, Professor of American Studies and chapters and is an accomplished public speaker with nearly fifty and Hovenweep in Utah Systems) technology. History at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. She presentations to her credit. Originally from Missouri, Sandweiss’ along with my parents and In the summer of 2001, I will speak twice on Thursday, November undergraduate work was at Harvard four siblings. received a Faculty/Student 7, 2002. Her first presentation will be at University, where she graduated magna I am a single parent Research Grant with Victoria raising two daughters, Heidi the Aficionados luncheon at noon in the cum laude. She has two master’s degrees in Levine. The purpose of the (14) and Erin (11). I am grant was to conduct research at Gaylord Room in the Worner Center; the history from Yale in addition to her Ph.D. attending Colorado College the Colorado Springs Fine Art title of her presentation is “Laura Gilpin in history from the same institution. She thanks to the generous Center’s Taylor Museum, where and the American Southwest.” A book sale joined the faculty at Amherst in 1989; support of the Winkler a sizeable ancestral Puebloan and signing will follow her presentation. previously she served as a curator at the Scholarship fund. When I pottery collection is housed. I At 7:00 PM in Gates Common Room Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas. began my time at Colorado first became interested in the in Palmer Hall, Sandweiss will present permission of M.A. Sandweiss by Photo In addition to her two presentations College I planned to major pottery collection when I was the Norman Lecture, entitled “Print the on campus, Sandweiss will visit a class and in English. I have always introduced to Taylor Museum Legend: Photography and the Nineteenth- meet with faculty. enjoyed writing and liter- Tracey Clark director and curator Cathy Century West.” A book signing will follow, The Andrew Norman Guest Lecture ature, but mainly, I thought Wright, who told me several but no books will be available for purchase Series was established by a grant from the that I needed a mental starting point. The first class I enrolled in years ago that the collection needed attention. I volunteered was a history course. Immediately I began to question my interest to be the one to do it. The collection includes pieces from the at this presentation. Books are available Andrew Norman Foundation in 1988 to in English as a major. In the fall of my first year at CC I took Colorado College Museum collection. My research project for purchase in the CC Bookstore in the enhance the Southwest Studies program. a Southwest Studies/Art History course with Will Wroth titled has involved an in-depth cataloguing process, inventory, and basement of the Worner Center. “Hispanic Art of the Southwest,” which involved a five-day trip descriptive analysis of over 450 pieces of pottery. By the end of Sandweiss is the author, editor, or co- —JD to New Mexico. The experience of going to New Mexico and the summer I had worked my way through half of the collection. editor of ten books, including her latest, meeting with contemporary artists, along with visits to museums In order to continue what I had begun, Vicki and I applied for Print the Legend: Photography and the Martha A. Sandweiss and places of historical significance, helped to put the material and received another collaborative research grant this summer. (continued on page three) From the Director Southwest Calendar Victoria Lindsay Levine Events The past three years have gone so quickly, it’s hard to believe 1963 while a student at Dartmouth. It seems fitting to use this September 14 Santa Fe: 12 th Annual All Children’s Powwow, December 7-8 Santa Fe: Winter Spanish Market, Sweeney Center, I’m starting my second term as director of the Hulbert Center. endowment to support student research and to recognize exceptional Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, 800-607-4636. 505-982-2226. When I moved into the Center in the fall of 1999, my goals were student achievement in Southwest Studies. We want to express our September 14-16 Dulce: Stone Lake Fiesta, various Jicarilla Apache December 8 & 15 Albuquerque: Holiday Concerts at San Felipe de Neri to develop more courses on Native American topics, to expand the appreciation to Dr. Benezet’s surviving children, Barbara, Julie and Dances, 505-759-3242. Church, Old Town Plaza, 505-242-8244. roles of environmental science and the fine arts in our curriculum, to Martha Benezet and Laura Remington. September 19 Laguna Pueblo (Old): St. Joseph’s Feast Day, Buffalo, December 9-10 Santa Fe: Santa Fe Art Auction, Sweeney Center, develop a community learning component, to enhance intercultural Special thanks also to Maria Varela, Rural Resources Group of Eagle and Social Dances, 505-552-6654. 505-954-5858. experiences, and to encourage student research. I planned to revive Albuquerque, who served as Acting Director during my sabbatical September 25 Laguna Pueblo (Paguate): St. Elizabeth’s Feast Day, December 12 Pojoaque Pueblo: Feast Day Mass at 10 a.m. in Tribal the Jackson Fellows Seminar as an annual conference, to increase the leave in the spring semester. Harvest and Social Dances, 505-552-6654. Council Room, dances performed after the Mass, number of faculty teaching in Southwest Studies, to form a Southwest September 25-29 Santa Fe: Santa Fe Wine & Chile Fiesta, 505-988-8060. 505-455-2278. Studies advisory committee, and to maintain our vigorous public Southwest Studies Courses, 2002-2003 December 15 Santa Fe: Las Posadas, Santa Fe Plaza, 505-476-5100. outreach program. I’m happy to report our success in meeting each of Southwest Studies September 29-30 Taos Pueblo: San Geronimo Feast Day, Buffalo, these goals, thanks to the hard work of our faculty and staff. It seems Comanche, and Corn Dances, ceremonial foot races and pole climb, December 24 Laguna, San Felipe, Santa Ana, Jémez, and Zia Pueblos: • First Year Course: The American Southwest, A Sense of Place–2 trade fair, 800-733-6396. Dances after Midnight Mass, 800-733-6396. especially significant that we have begun to incorporate Geographic blocks (Victoria Levine and Susan Scarberry-Garcia, Information Systems technology into our courses, because this Southwest Studies) October 4 Nambé Pueblo: St. Francis of Assisi Feast Day, Elk December 24 Taos Pueblo: Sundown Procession with bonfires, 505-758- interdisciplinary analytical tool enables us to develop fresh approaches Dance, 505-455-2036. 1028; Ácoma Pueblo: Lit with Luminarias from Scenic View • First Year Course: The American Southwest, Heritage and Variety– Point to “Sky City,” 505-552-6604; Laguna Pueblo: After 10:00 to teaching and research in Southwest Studies. 2 blocks (Doug Monroy, History) October 5-13 Albuquerque: 2002 Balloon Fiesta, Balloon Fiesta Park, 505-821-1000. a.m. Mass, various dances, 505-552-6654; San I also hoped to undertake a comprehensive evaluation of our • Community Organizations in the Southwest–2 semesters Felipe Pueblo: Dances after Midnight Mass, 505-867- curriculum, which will be our main project in the year ahead.
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