January 17, 2024
MUSINGS ON A CAREER AMONG MAKERS
After a 30-year career in academia and museums, Ann Lane Hedlund, PhD, continues to enjoy research and writing projects, ranging from 19th-century Navajo textiles, to the mid-20th-century career of artist Mac Schweitzer, and to reflections on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork among indigenous weavers in the American Southwest and Mexico. Dr. Hedlund earned a PhD in cultural anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder (1983), and served on the anthropology faculties there and at Arizona State University, Tempe (1986-1997), and the University of Arizona, Tucson (1997-2014). She directed the Gloria F. Ross Center for Tapestry Studies, which connected weavers, scholars and museum collections by convening nationwide lectures and special events (1997-2014). She has curated exhibitions about southwestern textiles in museums nationwide. Ann is the author of Navajo Weaving in the Late Twentieth Century (U of Arizona 2004) and Gloria F. Ross & Modern Tapestry (Yale 2003), among other books and articles; she edited the award-winning Blanket Weaving in the Southwest (by Joe Ben Wheat, U of Arizona, 1992). She now lives in Silver City, New Mexico, where she writes, gardens, hikes, and enjoys occasional conversations with textile-minded friends and colleagues. Ann Hedlund has followed and supported the progress of WARP since 2010.
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